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Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope
No commentsAcclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall called for animal protection and said that there are reasons to believe that humanity is going to stop climate change. Speaking at the 13th World Forestry Congress, Goodall claimed the origin of the problem is that our brains are unplugged from our hearts. “Each person can contribute to protect the environment just by thinking about their own little actions”, said Goodall, who has dedicated her life to conserving nature.
»Groups concerned at EU logging loophole
No commentsThree NGO groups raise concern on a particular change being done to the REDD negotiating text which they believe will encourage an increase in deforestation.
»Unique Tree To Boost Farming In Nigeria, Others
No commentsSuccour may be in the offing for farmers in Nigeria and some other African nations if submissions made yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya by a team of scientists are anything to go by.
»Eucalyptus trees deadly for Africa – Nobel Laureate
5 commentsWhile large scale planting of eucalyptus trees provides short-term economic benefits to farmers, Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai says its lasting contribution to environmental degradation and climate change in developing countries, especially in Africa, is similar to a slow process of suicide.
»Maathai urges ban on exotic tree species
No commentsThe Nobel Peace prize winner and renowned Kenyan environmental campaigner Professor Wangari Maathai has called for a ban on exotic tree species in her country, saying they damage the environment and undermine efforts to cope with climate change.
»Farmlands Have Significant Tree Cover, Says Study
No commentsContrary to the widely held notion that links agriculture in the developing world with massive deforestation, scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya may have influenced a reversal of the view.
»Facing The Heat: Latin America’s Bio-diversity Under Threat
No commentsStudies have shown a considerable increase in the intensity of extreme weather in Latin America and the Caribbean, and video footage shows that this could get significantly worse in the near future.
»COP 14 is over, with news for Peru
No commentsPeru’s environment minister Antonio Brack proposes in Poznan that rich country’s protect our Amazon too, and that Peru be host of the UN climate change conference in 2010.
»Carbon and biodiversity related says new UN atlas
No commentsThere is a major overlap between biodiversity richness and carbon stocks, according to a new atlas published by the United Nations Environmental Programme and launched at the climate summit. It aims to help negotiators assess the benefits of a new strategy for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation otherwise known as REDD. The atlas says that less carbon emissions and more biodiversity conservation can be achieved by reducing deforestation and making more protected forest zones.
»Saving the Congo Basin: Just With Cash?
No commentsAs discussions in the United Nations conference on climate change prepare to enter their second week in the Polish city of Poznan, there are disagreements over how to compansate African countries and peoples hosting one of the most significant global ’lungs’ in order to keep it intact.
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