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In a sudden display of urgency and anxiety the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has announced that it is targeting zero deforestation in the ASEAN region by 2020. It has correlated the recent food crisis to the loss of biodiversity...
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made popular Sep 3 2008
According to a latest review, 48% of primate species face extinction. Illegal hunting, deforestation and habitat loss will soon wipe out primates. The picture is quite...
made popular Aug 5 2008
Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the...
made popular Jul 15 2008
The great apes, namely the gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and the orangutans are our closest genetic relatives. But that didn’t stop us from slaughtering them as...
made popular Jul 8 2008
According to a paper published in the journal, Science, by authors, Dr Pep Canadell from CSIRO and the Global Carbon Project, and Dr Michael Raupach from CSIRO, better...
made popular Jun 15 2008
22 million tons of carbon will be released from Papua New Guinea’s forests this year as a result of logging – approximately the equivalent of the annual output...
made popular Jun 15 2008
We all are aware of the deplorable sate the world’s forests are in. Unreasonable, unplanned felling of trees for commercial purposes has rendered the forests scanty....
made popular Mar 8 2008
AP, Brasilia
Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped...
made popular Jan 24 2008
The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to a first-ever...
made popular Jan 22 2008
A white man is distraught at the way big, bad and unscrupulous Chinese businesses are destroying the world’s crystal clear environment. Bill Miller in the...
made popular Jan 11 2008
A deal has been reached at the climate talks in Bali to tackle green house emissions from deforestation. The deal has been agreed but is yet to be approved formally and...
made popular Dec 15 2007
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the United States and China to stop illegal logging. The memorandum is aimed at fighting deforestation, fight...
made popular Dec 13 2007
AP, Jakarta
Indonesia, which is losing its forests at a faster rate than any other country, launched a campaign Wednesday to plant 79 million trees ahead of a critical climate...
made popular Nov 28 2007
Africa’s most popular mass migration game reserves seem also to have come under threat from global warming. Even as wild beasts hoped to cross for calving, in...
made popular Oct 11 2007
AP, Jakarta
Indonesia, which is losing its forests faster than any other country, hopes to plant 79 million trees in a single day ahead of a major U.N. climate change meeting this...
made popular Oct 5 2007
Biofuel is the buzzword which embarks the beginning of an era that would see the world go green. We don’t have an option though, as this is the only entity touted...
made popular Sep 12 2007
In the past few years, the world has woken to the concept of biofuels in a big way. Large tracts of land and considerable policy space in both, the developed and the...
made popular Aug 21 2007
The already endangered black-mane lions with just a thousand living in the wild, the Ethiopian national symbol along with some 300 elephants are in danger, after a...
made popular Jun 2 2007
Forests throughout the world are shrinking in size due to the ever increasing demand in timber and other resources. The most threatened forest today is Brazil’s...
made popular May 24 2007
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The study of wildlife migration process from the twin Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island received a shot in the arm after the islands were integrated in the...
made popular Mar 20 2007
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