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6/3/2010
At first glance, these questions will seem bizarre. Groups like
Conservation International are among the most trusted "brands" in America, pledged to protect and defend nature. Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, ...
1/3/2010
It is no secret that orangutans are threatened with extinction because their rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate. Ten years ago, Shawn Thompson, a writer, former journalist and university professor, set out to chronicle the ...
5/12/2009
CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. The last stop on our REDD Path to a Green Planet takes Bruce Gellerman and Bobby Bascomb to a remote corner of the Amazon in Surui territory. The Surui are an ancient indigenous people who are ...
25/7/2009
As the naked, painted young men of the Kamayurá tribe prepare for the ritualized
war games of a festival, they end their haunting fireside chant with a blowing sound — “whoosh, whoosh” — a symbolic attempt to eliminate the scent of fish so they ...
29/5/2009
A new nature reserve to protect indigenous bonobos, apes threatened with extinction who use sex to deflate tension, has been built in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
conservationists said Friday.
The environment ministry "has created ...
24/4/2009
WE AWAKE IN OUR TENTS in the moonlight to what sounds like a dance troupe in wooden clogs practicing on rock under stunted juniper trees. It's a half-dozen Carmen mountain white-tailed deer, scraping at the ground with bootlike hooves, bending ...
12/4/2009
In October 2008 scientists with the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew discovered a host of previously unknown species in a remote highland forest in Mozambique. The find was no accident: three years earlier,
conservationist Julian Bayliss identified ...
6/3/2009
The economy of
war-torn Rwanda relies on gorillas.
Primate-watching tourists have helped the country rebound from civil conflict in recent years. Paying $500 for one hour near the massive apes, adventurous travelers account for nearly ...
14/2/2009
Les Gibson takes me out to teach me how to hunt, which is what he calls fishing. Despite the fact that every public beach in Queensland, Australia, has been periodically closed this season due to blooms of box jellyfish, and despite the fearsome ...
4/1/2009
Environmentalists have long voiced concern over the vanishing Amazon
rainforest, but they haven't been particularly effective at slowing forest loss. In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funds that have flowed into the ...
3/11/2008
Prince Charles has called for rich countries to pay an annual "utility bill" for the benefits given to the world by its
rainforests.
Speaking in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, the prince called
rainforests the "world's greatest public ...
11/9/2008
Prince Charles renewed his call to protect
rainforests for the services they provide humanity.Speaking Wednesday at a black-tie dinner in London, Charles compared the need to protect forests to fighting a
war."I often use the ...
5/9/2008
As of this week, there is one less human rights defender in the northwestern Colombian region of Bajo Atrato. Jimmy Jansasoy of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission was forced to flee the area, where oil palm plantations have encroached ...
2/8/2008
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva has launched an international
fund to protect the Amazon
rainforest and help combat climate change.
The fund will promote alternatives to forest-clearing for people living in the ...
12/7/2008
Contrary to some fictional portrayals, gorillas are gentle creatures now
under serious threat of extinction at the hands of human killers. A ministerial
meeting in Gisenyi, Rwanda, will address how to save them and their ...
24/6/2008
The governments of Britain and Norway last week announced a $211 million
(£108 million) initiative to conserve
rainforests in the Congo Basin. The plan
calls for the use of an advanced satellite camera to monitor deforestation in
the ...
21/6/2008
Maribop's world is shrinking. Mile after square mile of dense
rainforest
where, for centuries, his people hunted among the trees and tangled vines is
vanishing.
For 40 years he lived by the bow, as ignorant of the white man as ...
12/3/2008
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) mounted a military-style
crackdown on deforestation in the Amazon in January — just a month after the
government proclaimed that deforestation rates had dropped 59% over the previous ...
7/2/2008
Villagers in Aceh, the Indonesian province that suffered through three
decades of civil
war and lost some 170,000 people to the 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami, could soon see $26 million in carbon credits for protecting
rainforests
from ...
20/1/2008
Every morning, the cage doors swing open and 34 orangutan orphans climb into
the outstretched arms of their human mothers.
Grabbing at wrists, tugging at elbows, these baby apes cling to the young women
like Velcro, happy to be ...
5/1/2008
Last year ended with the incongruous image of 10,000 politicians,
businessmen, activists and scientists from 190 countries emitting vast
quantities of greenhouse gases as they flew home from Bali clutching the bare
bones of a global ...
4/1/2008
From the air the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
stretch as far as the eye can see, broken only by distant, shining ribbons of
rivers and streams. Dense, deep, seemingly impenetrable, the forests of the
Central ...
20/11/2007
Editor's summary: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
has announced the creation of a 11,803-square mile
rainforest reserve to protect
the habitat of the endangered bonobo, the so-called "peaceful chimp". ...
16/11/2007
The Bonobo
Conservation Initiative (BCI) joins the government of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in announcing the creation of the new Sankuru
Nature Reserve, a huge
rainforest area harboring the endangered bonobo, a great
ape most ...
16/10/2007
Veteran Amazon pilots such as Fernando Galvao Bezerra are hard men to shock.
During 20 years in aviation Mr Bezerra, 45, has ferried prostitutes and wildcat
miners to remote, lawless goldmines. He has taxied wealthy loggers between ...