By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comMarch 23, 2011 During a meeting in March 2011 twenty-six experts—from biologists to social scientists to NGO staff—crafted a statement calling on the Papua New Guinea government to stop granting Special Agricultural and Business Leases. According to the group, these leases, or SABLs as they are know, circumvent Papua New Guinea’s strong […]
Green Prophet delves into the bloody and murky business of shark fishing and finning in the United Arab Emirates By Arwa Aburawa 23 March 2011 Following the recent shocking incident where a pregnant hammerhead female shark and its forty-five pups were found dead at a fish market in Dubai, we decided to delve a little […]
By Lewis SmithMarch 23 2011 The dramatic decline of a fruit-eating fish reputed to be among the most delicious freshwater species in the world could have severe consequences for the health of the Amazonian forests, researchers have found. Tambaqui, which have slumped by 90 per cent since the 1970s because of overfishing, have been found […]
By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.comMarch 17, 2011 Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian NGOs, released maps showing that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) and Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) control blocks of land representing 31 percent of the remaining forest in the province of Riau, one of Sumatra’s most forested provinces. Much […]
By Eric NiilerMarch 20, 2011 Sven Thatje has been predicting an invasion of deep-water crabs into shallow Antarctic waters for the past several years. But the biologist and his colleagues got their first look at the march of the seafloor predators while riding on an icebreaker across frozen Antarctic seas this winter. The ship towed […]
By Jason G. Goldman 22 March 2011 On Friday, March 11, Japan was rocked by an earthquake. People were displaced, a nuclear reactor was in trouble, and the world watched as a tsunami flooded Japan, threatened the islands of the Pacific, and ultimately hit the western coasts of North and South America. Chris Rowan pointed […]
By GARDINER HARRISMarch 17, 2011 Nearly 25 years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, children and teenagers who drank contaminated milk or ate affected cheese in the days and weeks after the explosion still suffer from an increased risk of thyroid cancer, according to a study released Thursday by the […]
By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.comMarch 17, 2011 Indonesian environmental groups launched a urgent plea urging the country’s two largest pulp and paper companies not to clear 800,000 hectares of forest and peatland in their concessions in Sumatra. Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian NGOs, released maps showing that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) […]
Note: NEI = not elsewhere included. In the Northwest Pacific, small pelagics are the most abundant category, with Japanese anchovy providing about 1.9 million tonnes in 2003, but having since declined to 1.2 million tonnes in 2008. Other important contributors to the total catch in the area are the largehead hairtail, considered overexploited, and the […]
Contact: Elyssa Rosen03/16/2011 Ottawa, Canada – A first of its kind report by the Pew Environment Group reveals that Canada’s boreal, the world’s largest intact forest and on-land carbon storehouse, contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem. As United Nations’ International Year of Forests and World Water Day coincide, world leaders are grappling with […]
