Wildlife Conservation
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‘Unprecedented’: How bird flu became an animal pandemic
In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly. India Bourke ΒΒΨ The tips of…
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‘I want to erase my own footprint’: The women looking after an island paradise
She knows the loss of trees reduces oxygen and that dumped garbage kills the sea turtles that keep the ocean…
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What is Earth Day, when is it and what has it achieved?
The event began in 1970 in the United States, and is now marked around the world. Mark Poynting & Maddie…
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‘Worst I Have Seen’: 75% of Great Barrier Reef Suffers Coral Bleaching
“We cannot expect to save the Great Barrier Reef and be opening new fossil fuel developments.” Brett Wilkins Common Dreams…
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Ocean forests: how ‘floating’ mangroves could provide a broad range of ecological and social benefits
The 2022 report “The State of the World’s Mangroves” estimates that since 1996, 5,245 square kilometers of mangroves have been lost…
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Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations
The environment minister Susana Muhamad says nature is a ‘pillar’ of fighting the climate crisis Patrick Greenfield The Guardian The…
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Energy transition: Charting a fair course for fishing fleets
The fishing industry, reliant on fossil fuels and vulnerable to climate change, needs to shift to alternative energy – but…
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The UK environmental protections dropped since Brexit
The scale of the law changes means environmental legislation in the UK is facing death by a thousand cuts Helena…
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‘Legal animism’: when a river or even nature itself goes to court
The Vilcabamba River, a plaintiff in a trial there, convinced the tribunal that its own rights were being undermined by a…
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Earning the trust of a 40-stone silverback gorilla
Suddenly, the giant silverback – known as Mpungwe – charged at him with a shriek. Lucy Wallis BBC But, despite…
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Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie review – an optimist’s guide to the climate crisis
But is there something missing? Bibi van der Zee The Guardian Data scientist Hannah Ritchie has written a good-hearted, generous book that…
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ESA at 50: Celebrating the Nation’s Most Effective Environmental Law
The Act has saved hundreds of species from extinction, and is overwhelmingly popular with the American voters. Erik Molvar CounterPunch…
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Italian Trawler Arrested in The Gambia with “Sustainably Caught Shrimp” Bound for Europe
An industrialized trawler named Twenty—with connections to an Italian fishing company—was arrested in West Africa by Gambian Navy sailors stationed…
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Investigation finds VicForests hired a private investigator to spy on environmental campaigners
The investigation was sparked by an ABC report in 2021, in which a private investigator blew the whistle on his alleged…
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Europe’s top science panel supports call for moratorium on deep-sea mining
National science academies from across Europe have become the latest group to announce their support for a moratorium on deep-sea…
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Explainer: What is World Ocean Day?
World Ocean Day is an annual event organised by the United Nations (UN) in collaboration with the Division of Ocean…
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