A global study by the National Geographic Society and Wyss Foundation concluded that the world should meet a UN proposal to double the area of protected land and quadruple the area of protected sea. The goal would be to protect 30% of the world’s surface. …
It has been alleged by a former campaign staffer at the WWF that the organisation provides lobbying and practical help for trophy hunters. If this is true it goes against the ethos and objectives of the organisation and arguably severely undermines it. The attack on …
Rafiki was a famed silverback gorilla. He was the alpha male who led a group of gorillas known as the Nkurigo group. It was the first group to be habituated to people more than 20 years ago. This was a vitally important aspect of this …
CNN online has published an article which is incredibly depressing. It starts off with the sentence “Eleven billion metric tons”. This is the amount of plastic that we can expect to accumulate over the planet by 2025 according to new research. But there’s worse to …
In what I would consider to be an extraordinary declaration to the world in the strongest possible terms the city authorities in Beijing have announced plans to criminalise criticism of traditional Chinese medicine despite rising opposition to it by doctors and a background outrage at …
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 …
Spotted in an Argentine nature reserve free of visitors since the lockdown a very rare albino guanaco looked at the camera. This animal is a South American camelid closely related to the llama. It was filmed at the Villavicencio Nature Reserve in the western province …
There are benefits to the coronavirus lockdowns which many countries have adopted. We should learn from them and try to recreate these benefits while maintaining a viable economy. At the moment wildlife benefits but humans don’t because of the economic damage caused by an enforced …
Just at the time when humanity should be preserving forests as they are vital to curb global warming, deforestation in the Amazon rose sharply in April as shown in satellite data from the Brazilian space research agency INPE. In Brazil forest destruction increased by 64% …
