Forests covering an area the size of the Isle of Wight could be felled under controversial Government plans which would increase the UK’s carbon emissions by an amount equivalent to putting an extra 172,000 cars on the road…
From the category archives:
Conservation
This week the Prince Of Wales launched a new campaign to raise awareness of tropical deforestation and encourage action to end it. The campaign was launched on social networking sites across the web, urging people to show their support by signing up…
It’s hard to believe that such a small creature can be so important to our food supply but bees are major pollinators of crops and other plants. If bumblebees continue to decline many plants will set less seed, resulting in further decline and extinctions…
Soaring demand for palm oil is accelerating the destruction of the Indonesian rainforests, a tragedy for the forests and the people and animals who depend on them – and a disaster for the global climate. This Greenpeace video reveals the cause and extent of the damage…
Four beaver families have arrived in the UK as part of a plan to reintroduce the mammals to Scotland for the first time in more than 400 years. They will spend six months in quarantine before being released on a trial basis in Knapdale, Argyll, in spring 2009…
There are more than 160 species of chameleons. Many species of chameleon are seriously endangered due to loss of habitat and being taken from the wild for the commercial pet trade. CITES lists all chameleons, with the exception of a few species, on Appendix II…
As the japanese whaling fleet prepared to set sail for the Southern Ocean, news came through that there is to be a reduction in the number of Minke whales targeted this season. This is welcome news indeed, for Minke whales in the Southern Ocean…
A short video from Greenpeace, exposing the ugly truth about palm-oil and Indonesia’s rapidly disappearing rainforest. Boycott palm-oil products and send a clear message to those responsible for the destruction.
The cost of the recent financial crisis is nothing – in economic terms – to the cost of destroying the environment. A recent EU report put that cost at between $2 and $5 trillion annually, or about 7% of global GDP. Putting a price on the environment is one solution but will it work?
