By John Platt Finland’s Lake Saimaa is home to one of the world’s rarest seals, the Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis). Just 260 or so of these critically endangered animals remain in the freshwater lake, and now the European Union has told Finland that the country is not doing enough to protect the species. […]
By Matthew MoorePublished: 1:25PM BST 09 May 2010 The world’s biodiversity is threatened by the economic growth of countries like China, India and Brazil, the study will say. While Western countries are increasingly aware of the need to protect endangered species, the developing world’s appetite for raw materials is destroying vulnerable ecosystems, the report’s […]
SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, May 6, 2020 (ENS) – To mark World Migratory Bird Day this Sunday, the nongovernmental organization Nature Iraq is joining its BirdLife International partners around the world to celebrate bird migration, and to highlight the difficulties facing some the world’s most threatened species. The Mesopotamian marshes in the region of southern Iraq between […]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 29, 2010 (ENS) – World leaders have failed to fulfill their commitments to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen “alarming” biodiversity declines, finds the first assessment of how the targets expressed in the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity have not been met. Since 1970, human […]
By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comApril 28, 201 Niall O’Connor from the World Wildlife Fund warns in a Carte Blanche production that if the ecological destruction of Madagascar continues, the poor island country could become “Haiti-like”, where he says, “most of the biodiversity, most of the forests are gone”. Carte Blanche, an African investigative journalism show, went […]
By Thomas Hubert; Editing by Tim Cocks, David Lewis and Mark TrevelyanKINSHASAWed Apr 28, 2010 3:09pm EDT (Reuters) – United Nations peacekeepers in Congo have used helicopters to airlift endangered baby gorillas to a sanctuary after they were rescued in a conflict zone where they faced being captured or eaten. The animals ferried to safety […]
By Nick CollinsPublished: 9:10AM BST 25 Apr 2010 Sir David Attenborough has warned that Britain’s wildlife is being destroyed thanks to man’s impact on the environment. The naturalist made his comments in the foreword to a new book, Silent Summer, in which 40 prominent British ecologists explain how humankind is wiping out many species. It […]
By Lesley Wroughton, editing by Chris WilsonWASHINGTONWed Apr 21, 2010 10:09pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – World Bank President Robert Zoellick called on Wednesday for joint action among countries and organizations to save the dwindling numbers of wild tigers from extinction. There are barely 3,500 tigers left in the wild. Their declining numbers are blamed […]
Karen Allen reportsSunday, 18 April 2010 10:55 UK Conservationists in South Africa are warning that vultures could soon become extinct because they are being hunted down for use by traditional healers. There is a belief that the scavengers have the power to predict everything from winning lottery numbers to football scores. With the football World […]
Stinging nettles have become the most common plants in the British countryside, while more delicate flowers like harebells and orchids are struggling to survive, according to a survey. By Louise Gray, Environment CorrespondentPublished: 8:00AM BST 17 Apr 2010 The annual survey of wild flowers by the charity Plantlife found plants that can tolerate high levels […]
