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The unique nature of Covid-19 crisis have been blessings to build lives and nature friendly green planet. Strategic policy responses should be designed internalizing the effective governance to pursue both short and long-term benefits to achieve both the global resilience to climate change

Biodiversity , COVID-19 , Environment , Forests , Health , Human Rights / 06/19/2020

A recently-contacted tribe is the ‘most infected’ in Brazil

The Arara people of the Cachoeira Seca (Dry Waterfall) territory have been revealed as the tribe with the highest known rate of Covid-19 infection in the Brazilian Amazon. According to official statistics 46% of the 121 Arara people living in the reserve have the virus, but experts believe i

Biodiversity , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 06/08/2020

Equator Prize winners inspire ways of coexisting with nature

The 11th Equator Prize recognized 10 local and indigenous communities from across the world. The winning organizations showcase innovative, nature-based solutions for tackling biodiversity loss and climate change. For years, Equator Prize winners representing indigenous communities ha

Biodiversity , Business , Corruption , COVID-19 , Environment , Food , Resources , Sustainable Development / 06/06/2020

‘Quietly Putting Hundreds of Species at Risk,’ Trump Opens 5,000 Square Miles of Atlantic Ocean to Commercial Fishing

Jake Johnson Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks, dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats that will pay the price. In a move that environmentalists warned could further imperil h

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Forests , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 06/04/2020

New data show world lost a Switzerland-size area of primary rainforest in 2019

Morgan Erickson-Davis Data from 2001 to 2019 show an overall deforestation of primary forest constituting the third-highest year of primary forest loss since the turn of the century Last year the world lost around 119,000 square kilometers (45,946 square miles) of tree cover, according to satellit

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , COVID-19 , Environment , Forests , Governance , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 06/01/2020

An open letter for saving the Environment of Maldives

Concerned about the continuation of irreversible, environmentally destructive and debt financed projects in Maldives during the current Covid-19 global public health crisis with consequent economic recession, Save Maldives Campaign wrote an open letter to the Speaker of the Parliament For the attent

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Health , Sustainable Development / 05/30/2020

Coronavirus, cyclones and locusts: In 2020, it’s getting harder in India than ever to ignore science and our impact on the environment

The intensification of agriculture and the accompanying clearance of forest lands for cropping and grazing had been driving diverse wildlife species together and pushing wildlife and livestock into overlapping environments. It’s hard to deny it any longer: 2020 is getting seriously apocalyptic. La

Biodiversity , Climate , COVID-19 , Disasters , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Human Rights , Migration , Water / 05/26/2020

After Cyclone Amphan, broken houses and rotting fish

Joydeep Gupta Residents of the Sundarbans wonder why they are rebuilding, when their lands have been encroached for years by the seas, and their huts that will fall down in the next cyclone “What is the point in rebuilding our house,” asks Santanu Haldar, “when we know it will be torn down in

Biodiversity , Business , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Human Rights , Resources , Sustainable Development / 05/19/2020

GLOBAL FINANCE ENABLING DESTRUCTION OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA RAIN FORESTS

A new investigation from anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has uncovered how global financial institutions – including the likes of Blackrock and the Norway Government Pension Fund – are backing Malaysian banks linked to a hugely destructive logging project in Papua New Guinea, that a

Biodiversity , Disasters , Health , Sustainable Development / 05/18/2020

Pandemic for pigs hits northeast India

Farhana Ahmed African Swine Flu, highly contagious, with no vaccine, no cure, and has decimated pig populations in East and Southeast Asia has reached India’s northeast, possibly through carcasses floating down from China Mukti Doley and his three friends covered their faces as they rowed next to

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