Green farming budget freeze ‘will hit nature work’
Getty Images Environmental groups have warned that work to boost biodiversity across the UK countryside will be put at risk by the government’s decision to freeze the level of payments to farms in...
View ArticleChanel wanted ‘responsible’ gold. So it turned to a protected area in Madagascar
ANDRANOTSIMATY, Madagascar — On a recent August afternoon, a conspiracy of golden-crowned sifakas frolicked their way across Andranotsimaty, a settlement inside Loky Manambato Protected Area in...
View ArticleIn Colombia, guerrilla groups decide the fate of the Amazon
Colombia President Gustavo Petro took office in 2022 with ambitious plans to combat climate change and lead a clean energy transition — a major challenge for a country that has struggled with high...
View ArticleNew brown bear ‘stronghold’ in Nepal redraws species’ range map
KATHMANDU — Researchers have discovered brown bears in a part of Nepal not previously known to host the species, prompting a call to protect this area as a bear “stronghold.” The finding, based on...
View ArticleMarshes are cost-effective for protecting coasts: Study
Climate change effects, including rising sea level and increasingly powerful storms, have put many coastal communities at risk. To mitigate damage, governments have responded by building higher...
View ArticleDefending the hidden forest gems of Zambia’s Copperbelt Province
MPONGWE, Zambia – The Chimfuneme swamp forest in central Zambia’s Copperbelt province got its name — which means “hiding place” in the local language, Lamba — long ago when strife tore apart rival...
View ArticleWith rare mammal tourism, observing means conserving (commentary)
At the turn of this century, seeing a wild jaguar was exceptionally difficult. People driving through the Jaguar Ecological Reserve in the Pantanal in Brazil would very occasionally get a glimpse of...
View ArticleAn Ecological Disaster in the Past and One in the Making
We go to the borders between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan to see the dried up shores of what was once one of the largest lakes in the world, the Aral Sea. Mismanagement of the rivers that fed...
View ArticleEvolution of the Pan Amazon in the post-Jesuit era
Because of their privileged status as a transnational religious institution and their allegiance to the pope, the Jesuits enjoyed considerable autonomy from both the Spanish and Portuguese crowns....
View ArticleStudy maps owners of world’s high-seas ships often tied to illegal fishing
For decades, the owners of refrigerated container ships, or reefers, often associated with illegal fishing, have remained in the shadows. Now, a new study has traced 324 companies as the owners of 569...
View ArticleSmallholders offer mixed reactions to calls for delay in EU deforestation law
Smallholder farmers’ views on a proposed delay to a key EU forest conservation law remain mixed as the union’s Parliament is set to vote on a decision Nov. 13 and 14. The EU anti-deforestation...
View ArticleUN falls short on coral funding as reefs face largest bleaching event on record
A United Nations emergency session on coral reefs came up short, with funding commitments well below what is needed to protect critical marine ecosystems. The Oct. 30 meeting held at COP16, the U.N....
View ArticleKarachi expected to receive 2.3 million climate migrants by 2050: Report
A new study finds that Karachi — Pakistan’s most populous city, home to more than 20 million people — could get an influx of 2.3 million climate migrants by 2050. According to a recent report, only...
View ArticleSalmon is ‘everything’ for Lummi Nation highlighted in new PBS documentary
The sacred relationship between the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) people and wild salmon takes center stage in a powerful new documentary premiering Nov. 4 on PBS. Scha’nexw Elhtal’nexw Salmon People:...
View Article$250k prize awarded in honor of ‘father of biodiversity’ Thomas Lovejoy
Two champions of Amazon Rainforest conservation have been awarded the inaugural Thomas E. Lovejoy Prize at the United Nations biodiversity summit, COP16, currently underway in Cali, Colombia. The cash...
View ArticlePoliticians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists
Getty Images Scientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the UN biodiversity summit, COP 16, draws to a close. The scale of political ambition has not risen to the...
View ArticleWilliam returns to ‘special place’ Africa for prize awards
PA Media The Prince of Wales has spoken of his deep personal connections with Africa – ahead of his environmental Earthshot Prize awards ceremony in Cape Town in South Africa next week. “Africa has...
View ArticleAt the U.N.’s global biodiversity convention, nations pledge to reverse...
A recent biodiversity meeting acknowledged the serious problem of deforestation while a new report on global environmental threats to trees offered a startling estimate. The post At the U.N.’s global...
View ArticleIn Bhutan, a smoked fish tradition helps sustain a vanishing ethnic group
RUKHA, Bhutan — The Oleps, the last remaining hunter-gatherers living within Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park, take pride in their ancestry as Bhutan’s first inhabitants. With the kingdom’s...
View ArticlePopulation crash means African penguins are now critically endangered
Africa’s only resident penguin species is now officially critically endangered, according to a recent assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Over the past century,...
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