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Almost half of the seafood we eat comes from farms. For fish farming (aquaculture) to hold its promise to meet our future food demands, it will need to demonstrate that it can produce better farmed seafood. Through a partnership, Marina Bay Sands and WWF have jointly developed measurable and achieva

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 01/30/2018

Humans need to learn to co-exist with wildfires. Here’s how we can do it.

Kendra R Chamberlain An assessment concept called the home ignition zone (HIZ) helps homeowners determine how vulnerable their home is to wildfire by looking at factors such as building materials, vegetation and debris In 1992, the city of Wenatchee, Washington, experienced a devastating wildfire th

Biodiversity , Environment , Governance , Sustainable Development / 01/30/2018

Indonesian ruling rings alarms over criminalization of environmental defenders

Hans Nicholas Jong A court in Indonesia has sentenced an anti-mine activist to 10 months in jail on a rarely used charge of promoting communism. The ruling is just the latest in a series of controversial prosecutions of environmental activists and protesters based on draconian or obscure laws, which

Aid , Biodiversity , Environment , Resources , Sustainable Development / 01/27/2018

Livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan in jeopardy

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $7.5 million to roll out a critically needed emergency livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan. FAO aims to protect nearly 9 million animals (30 percent of the country’s livestock) – scaling up from 6 million in 2017 –

Biodiversity , Food , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 01/21/2018

How blockchain is strengthening tuna traceability to combat illegal fishing

In a significant development for global fisheries, blockchain technology is now being used to improve tuna traceability to help stop illegal and unsustainable fishing practices in the Pacific Islands tuna industry. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, in partnership with

Biodiversity , Business , Data & Reports , Environment / 12/16/2017

‘A vicious cycle towards extinction:’ Hunting and trade can push even abundant wildlife populations to the brink

Mike Gaworecki Researchers at the University of Queensland looked at something called the anthropogenic Allee effect (AAE), a theory that proposes a critical population level threshold below which the likelihood of a species going extinct increases substantially due to rising prices for rare animals

Biodiversity , Climate , Environment , Forests , Soil , Water / 11/22/2017

As the Chitra turns saline, mangroves appear

Kamran Reza Chowdhury Salinisation of freshwater near Sundarbans leading to mangrove forests and spelling the end of an ecosystem that was heavy with sweet water vegetation and fish Environmentalists have consistently warned that climate change would adversely affect the world’s largest mangrove

Aid , Biodiversity , Climate , Featured , Forests , Sustainable Development , Videos / 11/10/2017

Maldives planning to convert mangroves forest to an airport

Maldives, one of the most vulnerable to climate change is planning to convert mangrove forests that protected against the 2004 devastating tsunami into an airport; while receiving millions of dollars from climate funds. The island of Kulhudhuffushi hosts the 7th largest mangrove in the Maldives. I

Biodiversity , Environment , Sustainable Development / 11/06/2017

How we discovered a new species of Orangutan in northern Sumatra

Colin Groves & Anton Nurcahyo We have discovered a new species of orangutan – the third known species and the first new great ape to be described since the bonobo almost a century ago. The new species, called the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), has a smaller skull than the existing

Biodiversity , Climate , Forests / 11/03/2017

Deep in the jungle, scientists explore the links between the Congo and climate change

Daniel Grossman Two researchers are working on separate projects to try to better understand how the Congo rainforest, second in size only to the Amazon, will respond to climate change — and in turn, impact climate change. The town of Yangambi, about 60 miles west of the Democratic Republic of Con

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