Biodiversity
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 […]
Category: Forests
Environment
OECD investigates WWF for funding human right abuses
In an unprecedented move, a member of the OECD has agreed to investigate a complaint that the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has […]
Environment
Peru: Last female speaker of indigenous Amazonian language murdered
The last female speaker of the Resígaro language has been murdered in Peru. Her body was found decapitated at her home in the Amazon […]
Sustainable Business
Environmental crime threatening peace and security: INTERPOL & UNEP
The vast majority of deforestation and illegal logging takes place in the tropical forests of the Amazon, Central Africa and Southeast Asia. The extent […]
Sustainable Business
Incredible new photos of uncontacted Amazon tribe – that could be wiped out
Brazilian government agents are charged with protecting the Yanomami territory. But they are currently facing severe budget cuts amid politicians’ plans to drastically weaken […]
Sustainable Business
Billionaire’s elephant-hunting safaris implicated in “Pygmy” abuses
Survival International has learned that an elephant-hunting safari operation jointly owned by a French billionaire has been implicated in human rights abuses against local […]
Biodiversity
Shocking 58% decline in Global Wildlife population: WWF
Global populations of vertebrates — mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish — have declined by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012, states a new […]
Biodiversity
Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forests under threat from a power plant
World Heritage Centre and IUCN call for relocation of Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, a serious threat to the Sundarbans The Sundarbans in Bangladesh […]
Sustainable Business
Can upscale chocolate turn the tide on Haiti’s devastating deforestation?
Meg Wilcox With 98 percent of their trees gone, Haitians eye cocoa-based agroforestry as a way to combat poverty and renew the land When […]
Environment
Paraguay Government defies order to protect un-contacted tribe
The Paraguayan government has failed to act to protect a group of uncontacted tribal people, despite having been ordered to do so in February […]
Sustainable Business
China’s ‘new Silk Road’ could expand Asia’s deserts
Liu Qin China’s massive Asian infrastructure network of proposed new roads and railways, new ports and airports, linking 65 countries to itself must grapple […]
Biodiversity
RE(D)D is BAD!
Rafał Chudy My view about the UN-REDD is very straightforward: it simply does not work and will never do, as it is based […]
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