www.wildmadagascar.orgApril 04, 2010 Rainforest timber continues to be cut illegally from Madagascar’s national parks despite a recently announced moratorium on precious wood exports and logging, reports a source from the Indian Ocean island nation. On March 24, Madagascar’s transitional authority unveiled decree (no. 2010-141) prohibiting all exports of rosewood and precious timber for two […]
By Paul Ilado and Geoffrey Mosoku 29 March 2010 Nairobi — POWERFUL individuals including former President Daniel arap Moi who were allocated huge parcels of land in the Mau Forest will not only lose their land but will also not be compensated. Last year’s fierce struggle within the ODM over whether the Mau evictees should […]
Fishing in the Sea of Galilee has been banned, Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture has announced, amid claims stocks have fallen to a dangerous low. By Nathan Jeffay, in Tiberias and Anita SinghPublished: 8:00AM BST 03 Apr 2010 It is the site where Jesus told his disciples: “I will make you fishers of men.” As the […]
By David DeFranza on 04.1.10 When we think about pollutants moving their way up the food chain, we picture a process that begins with plants or plankton and gradually compounds until it reaches species at the top — like polar bears or humans. In the case of carnivorous plants, new research has shown, consuming toxic […]
By Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.comMarch 31, 2010 Urbanization may be having unexpected impacts in the Amazon rainforest by leaving forest areas vulnerable to exploitation by outsiders, report researchers writing in Conservation Letters. Conducting field surveys during the course of 10,000-kilometers of travel along remote Amazon rivers, Luke Parry of Lancaster University found that a sharp […]
By Louise Gray, Environment CorrespondentPublished: 7:00AM GMT 23 Mar 2010 Research in the Congo Basin in Africa found more than three million tonnes of ‘bush meat’ is being extracted from the area every year, the equivalent of butchering 740,000 bull elephants. Most of the animals are small antelopes like blue duiker or rodents like the […]
By the CNN Wire StaffMarch 25, 2010 4:13 a.m. EDT (CNN) — Gorillas may go extinct in much of central Africa by the mid-2020s — victims of a meat trade, of logging and mining, and even the Ebola virus, a new report says. Unless action is taken to guard the gorillas’ habitat and counter poaching, […]
By BRIAN SKOLOFF (AP) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Coral reefs are dying, and scientists and governments around the world are contemplating what will happen if they disappear altogether. The idea positively scares them. Coral reefs are part of the foundation of the ocean food chain. Nearly half the fish the world eats make their […]
By John Platt The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) this week decided not to create any new international trade restrictions to protect five endangered shark species, all of which are highly prized for their use in the Chinese delicacy known as shark fin soup, or as I […]
Employee accuses bosses of making drink from bones of endangered animal By Clifford Coonan in Beijing Thursday, 18 March 2010 It is the Chinese Year of the Tiger but it has been far from auspicious. China’s Shenyang Zoo has closed after 11 Siberian tigers died of starvation or were shot this year amid murky tales […]
