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For Earth Day, Survival International reveals some of the amazing ways in which tribal peoples are the best conservationists and guardians of the natural world 1. The Baka “Pygmies” have over 15 words for elephant The Baka people know so much about elephants, they have different words for them a

Biodiversity , Cities , Environment , Opinions / 04/03/2017

Bangalore lost homes with gardens

A nostalgic take on Bangalore’s houses with gardens and fruit trees Today with Bangalore’s bungalows going skywards and turning into high rise apartments, there are very few homes with gardens left. However to keep some colour in their gardens many are growing flowering creepers on their pro

Biodiversity , Sustainable Development / 03/19/2017

How a UN platform to stop biodiversity loss could up its game

Maud Borie and Aleksandar Rankovic Biodiversity keeps declining despite lots of accumulated knowledge and numerous international and national commitments to act. How could IPBES help change this? Biodiversity, the variety of plant, animal and microbial life on Earth, is still declining. For many y

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Featured , Forests , Human Rights / 03/15/2017

Canadian oil company pulls out of uncontacted tribes land in Peru

A Canadian oil company is withdrawing from the territory of several uncontacted tribes in the Amazon where it had been intending to explore for oil. The company, Pacific E&P, had previously been awarded the right to explore for oil in a large area of the Amazon Uncontacted Frontier, an area o

Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Featured , Food , Forests , Videos / 03/05/2017

Watch: Seed vault holds key to human survival

Among the most important buildings in the world, the Seed Vault holds the key to human survival: more than 880,000 seed samples, the largest collection in the world. Follow world-renowned scientist Cary Fowler into the heart of the Arctic, where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault lies nestled in the fro

Biodiversity , Environment , Human Rights / 02/28/2017

BBC banned from India’s tiger reserves after “shoot on sight” investigation

The Indian government has reportedly banned the BBC from filming in any tiger reserve nationwide for five years, after its South Asia correspondent investigated “shoot on sight” conservation in the country. Justin Rowlatt investigated the impact of deadly conservation tactics on tribal communiti

Biodiversity , Environment / 02/21/2017

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo: A great Mimic

Greater Racket Trailed Drongo is the largest of the drongo species and is readily identifiable by the distinctive tail rackets and the crest of curled feather that begin in front of the face above the beak and along the crown. We were walking through the Kabini Wind Flower Resort headed for breakfas

Biodiversity , Environment , Featured , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Videos / 02/11/2017

India’s militant rhino protectors are challenging traditional views of how conservation works

Bhaskar Vira In Kaziranga, a national park in north-eastern India, rangers shoot people to protect rhinos. The park’s aggressive policing is, of course, controversial, but the results are clear: despite rising demand for illegal rhino horn, and plummeting numbers throughout Africa and South-East A

Biodiversity , Data & Reports , Featured / 02/05/2017

Language a barrier to flow of scientific knowledge

Amin Equiano Language is still a major barrier to the transfer of scientific knowledge even though English is increasingly used as the global language of science, a study has found. The research, published in the journal PLOS Biology, highlights a practical problem that scientists in many parts of t

Biodiversity , Environment / 02/02/2017

Tibetan Mastiffs: Abandoned and dangerous

Wang Yan Urbanization and uncontrolled breeding of mastiffs have resulted in a surge of stray dogs in parts of Tibetan plateau, posing a growing threat to local people and the environment Zhang Lizhi loves dogs. But her encounter with two of them in Yushu, in the northwestern province of Qinghai on

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