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21/3/2010
The internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats to rare species, fuelling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live lion cubs to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists said today.
The ...
21/3/2010
The internet has emerged as one of the biggest threats to endangered species, according to conservationists who are meeting in Doha, Qatar.
Campaigners say it is easier than ever before to buy and sell anything from live baby lions to ...
21/3/2010
Conservationists say the Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats fueling the illegal wildlife trade, making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists said Saturday.
The ...
21/3/2010
LACK of food due to drought has forced monkeys to leave their sanctuaries in Barangay New Israel here and take refuge in nearby forested areas.
“It all started when severe heat wilted some crops in the village including banana plants ...
20/3/2010
Protest could change the palm oil industry and wake the world up to the power of 'social media'.
The online protest over Nestle's use of palm oil linked to deforestation in Indonesia continues unabated over the weekend. One only needed ...
20/3/2010
Research shows customary laws that were implemented by a number of local communities were far more effective than government policies to preserve forest in efforts to deal with climate change.
For local communities, obliging traditional ...
20/3/2010
If the world's largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF -- formerly the World Wildlife Fund -- announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of Switzerland, ...
19/3/2010
In a bold online ad, the environmental group Greenpeace cleverly links candy-giant Nestle to oil palm-related deforestation and the deaths of orangutans. Cleary angered over the ad, Nestle struck back by having the ad banned from YouTube and ...
19/3/2010
Recently, Boston University issued a press release on a scientific study regarding the Amazon's resilience to drought. The press release claimed that the study had debunked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) theory that ...
19/3/2010
The Conservatives today criticised the government for failing to support proposals from a number of African countries to impose a 20-year ban on any legal sales of ivory.
The plan, led by Kenya, is being discussed at the meeting of the ...
19/3/2010
Their sheer size and strength have made them among the most celebrated of endangered species, yet they have all been betrayed -- by vested interests at a UN meeting on wildlife protection.
Proposals to ban trade in bluefin tuna and polar ...
19/3/2010
Indonesia has launched a review of laws governing a U.N.-backed carbon trading scheme aimed preserving rainforests, a forestry ministry official said on Friday.
Indonesia in 2008 became the world's first country to design a legal ...
19/3/2010
Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).
The devastating earthquake in Haiti last January claimed the lives of more than ...
19/3/2010
The goal of the Global Sustainable Bioenergy (GSB) project is to create a global advisory panel for sustainable bioenergy similar to those that exist for subjects such as climate change and biodiversity. To reach this goal, the GSB project has ...
19/3/2010
The Jakarta Post (Feb. 16) reported that the Forestry Ministry is planning to include oil palm estates to the forestry sector. Even though Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan denied the plan, an internal source at the ministry said that the decree ...
18/3/2010
The United Nation declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). One of the goals of the IYB is to celebrate the achievements of the Convention of Biological Diversity signed by 192 countries since 1992. But what have we ...
18/3/2010
For the first time, a causal link has been established between climate change and the timing of a natural event "“ the emergence of the common brown butterfly.
Although there have been strong correlations between global warming and ...
18/3/2010
Ecuadorean plaintiffs have appealed a U.S. judge's decision to allow Chevron Corp to seek arbitration of a case of alleged pollution in the Amazon rainforest with a potential $27 billion liability.
The plaintiffs, indigenous Ecuadoreans, ...
18/3/2010
A U.S.-led study involving scientists from 13 organizations, universities and institutions suggests forest protection is effective in slowing climate change.
The research, led by the World Wildlife Fund, recommends incorporating ...
18/3/2010
Indonesian palm oil giant Sinar Mas rejected claims of environmental vandalism Thursday after Nestle, the world's biggest food company, dropped it as a supplier following protests by Greenpeace.
It was the second embarrassing blow to ...
18/3/2010
He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice.
But even a highly experienced and hardworking rice farmer like ...
18/3/2010
The livestock industry has less economic clout than the oil industry, but ranchers say it has better arguments to defend itself from accusations regarding its share of responsibility for global warming. The livestock industry represents 40 ...
17/3/2010
Wangari Maathai has warned.Prof. Maathai emphasised the role of conserving forests while speaking on Tuesday at the 15th International African Water and Sanitation Congress taking place in Kampala.“One of the most effective ...
17/3/2010
Within a decade, passenger planes will be flying on jet fuel largely made from plants ---- flax, marsh grass, even food waste ---- as airlines seek to break away from the volatile oil market and do their part to fight climate change, aviation ...
17/3/2010
Nestle, the world's biggest food group, said it had stopped buying palm oil from Indonesia's Sinar Mas due to concerns about rainforest destruction, following a similar move by consumer goods firm Unilever.
Nestle's announcement came ...