Archive for the ‘Biodiversity’ Category

• Amazon loggers captured a young tribe girl and burned her alive

  Loggers in Brazil have reportedly burned a young tribe girl alive in an effort to scare the local indigenous population from its land. The girl, who the Telegraph report was around the age of eight, came from one of Amazon’s …

• Scientists fine-tune extinction rate projections

  The journal Nature recently reported that modern methods of measuring animal populations are too simple and often do not take into account the complexity of what influences species numbers. Professor Stephen Hubbell, from California, and Professor Fangliang He, from China, …

• Brazilian rainforest activist murdered

  The Guardian reports that the famous Amazon rainforest activist José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva has been killed in an ambush near his home in Brazil. Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned …

• Watch: Indiscriminate logging in Latvia is fueled by Britain’s markets

  Al Jazeera English takes a closer look at the forests in Latvia which are being cut down at an unsustainable rate in one of their recent episodes of People & Power. “The Baltic nation of Latvia is blessed with some …

• European Union bans the trade of seal products

  Today the European Parliament voted 550 to 49 in favour to ban the trade of all seal products (such as fur and omega-3) within the European Union. The new EU-wide legislation is meant to send a clear signal to Canada …

• The annual seal hunt in Canada starts, over 280000 seals to be slaughtered

  The annual seal massacre in Canada has started. This year the Canadian government has set a target of over 280000 baby seals to be clubbed to death and skinned to provide coats, hats, handbags and other accessories for the fashion …

• Emperor Penguins will face extinction within the next 100 years

  Photo credit: pixie_bebe If the ice continues to shrink (due to man-made climate change) at its current pace the Emperor Penguins will become extinct within 100 years, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts warns. “Emperor Penguins are …

• Knowing Your Bioregion: A First Step to Stewardship

  Ask me where I am from, and more than likely, I will say Lake Erie. Or the Great Lakes. I love Pennsylvania, for sure, but I feel I have more in common with someone from Toronto or Chicago than someone from …

• Nearly 50% of the world’s primates face extinction report says

  According to a newly released report by the IUCN Primate Specialist Group says that “almost 50 percent of the world’s primates are in danger of extinction.” The report points out that habitat destruction and hunting are the two main threats. …

• The Northern white rhino is on the brink of extinction

  White rhinoceros in Kruger Park. Photo by Esculapio. It wasn’t long ago since the Caribbean monk seal was officially listed as extinct by the US Government. And now the IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, reports that the …