Extinction

The cuckoo

Cuckoos are out of sync with their victims’ nesting clocks due to global warming

Cuckoos travelling to the UK are out of sync with their victims’ nesting clocks due to global warming which is bringing spring earlier. Scientific American reported last year that spring in the UK arrived a month earlier than in the 1980s and that the trend was revealed in 250 years of records. They also state …

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Ban trophy hunting imports. The UK wants it to happen now.

The Lords of England are against a ban on the importation of hunting trophies

NEWS AND VIEWS: This genuinely irritates me to my core. The UK government is trying to pass a law which bans the importation of hunting trophies as trophy hunting is cruel and an activity which is of a bygone age. It negatively impacts conservation in my view. There is no place for it in 20th …

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What is ecocide?

The blowing up of part of the Nova Kakhovka dam during the Ukraine war, which formed the Kakhovskyi reservoir – one of the largest in Europe – was an act of ecocide. The Sunday Times reports on it in their article, “The drowned earth strategy is ancient but it has a modern name – ecocide”. …

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We need more and better conservation

We are discovering new species that are going extinct

The title tell us this: we are discovering for the first time ever new species of plants and animals but at the same time we’ve decided that these new species (to humans) are going extinct because of human behavior. It is a bit sick that. There must be species on the planet that we have …

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Giant Panda

Giant panda edging away from extinction due to Chinese conservation efforts

The giant panda is, in my words, edging away from the possibility of extinction thanks to captive breeding programs by the Chinese and overall efforts in terms of their conservation. Chinese scientists in China are pleased with the rise in the number of giant pandas. One of those people is Hou Rong, 55, a researcher …

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The Dodo - efforts to de-extinct it

Plans to “de-extinct” the dodo through gene editing

The current plans to de-extinct and re-wild the dodo calls into question the motivation. And there are ethical issues as well. I always think that if humankind wants to de-extinct species such as the dodo or the Tasmanian tiger or indeed the woolly mammoth, it is because we are guilty. The guilt of hunting these …

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COP26

$500 billion a year to protect wildlife

NEWS AND VIEWS: Sir David Attenborough is supporting a campaign by more than 100 conservation groups to get countries to commit, in total, £390 billion ($500 billion) annually to protect wildlife. Today there is a virtual UN biodiversity summit meeting. The UK’s Prime Minister is this year’s president of the G-7 and he is hosting …

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Amazon forest destroyed

Planet Earth is being misused and mismanaged leading to the sixth mass extinction

The media, today, is expressing an exasperation at the inability of humans to change the course that they are on which is a long-term acute mismanagement and misuse of the planet leading to what is described as the sixth mass extinction and which is happening faster than expected. It is happening now and it is …

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Mexico deforestation

Mexico is a paradigm of the world’s ‘human population growth problem’

Mexico is endangering the survival of the most species (compared to other countries) because of their uncontrolled human population growth. We have a list of the top ten countries containing the most endangered species. For me, it means that these countries either contain the most diverse species of animal and there is some endangerment by …

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Children lack experience but they have clear sight on global warming

I’m referring to the schoolchildren’s strike to force the adults of this world, by which I mean the politicians and senior businessmen, to do something tangible and quickly about climate change. I’m sure a lot of people will dismiss what they say because adults know best? Well they don’t sometimes and Sir David Attenborough has …

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Hybrid aliens are on earth to colonise it and to solve global warming

A lecturer of Korean at Oxford, Dr. Young-hae Chi, believes that aliens are on the planet already and they are breeding with humans to create a hybrid species. He believes that they will save the planet because they are of an incredibly high intelligence. They want to solve climate change because it will save them …

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Limit the number of babies born in the interests of the planet and wildlife

A teacher in Germany, Verena Brunschweiger, has vowed to never have a son or daughter in order to save the planet (and, for me, to thereby protect animals). She argues that it’s time to break free of conventional thinking and decide positively whether a mother should have babies or not. The lady is a teacher …

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