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Climate Change, Conservation, Green living, Health, Nature, Pollution, Weird Stuff, Wildlife & Flora, Sep 2nd, 2010,
Oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface. They contain the greatest diversity and abundance of life on this planet and absorb 80% of climate change heat. So, it’s really a wonder to learn that less than 1% of that great blue ecosystem is protected. Conservation International is doing something about that. This awesome group has a “Save a Mile” program. People can adopt a square mile of ocean, thus ensuring it gains some more protection. Why should anyone bother protecting the ocean (aside from the information in the first paragraph)? First, consider these threats: • An estimated 14 billion…
Tags: Conservation, Conservation International, habitat, It's Our Oceans, oceans, protect our oceans, Save a Mile, threats, wildlife
Climate Change, Politics, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 19th, 2010,
In advance of a major UN meeting for the Convention on Biological Diversity, the organization’s secretary-general, Ahmed Djoghlaf, recently warned of the threats posed against the natural world – and life itself – by population growth, urbanization, agriculture and climate change. Despite these increasing threats and an ongoing mass extinction in the natural world, which is almost 1,000 times the normal ‘background’ rate, governments are simply not acting to preserve biodiversity and the overall health of the planet. No country has met its targets to protect nature. We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. If current levels [of destruction]…
Tags: Ahmed, biodiversity, biological, change, climate, convention, diversity, Djoghlaf, Nature, rainforest, threats, UN
Conservation, Nature, Politics, Science & Technology, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 28th, 2010,
There is a new contender for the endangered species list from the US northwest: Franklin’s Bumblebee. Robin Thorp, an entomologist at the University of California at Davis, along with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, formally petitioned the US Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the insect under the Endangered Species Act. Xerces Society executive director, Scott Hoffman Black, explained that the petition is part of an ongoing effort to reverse the decline of bees around the world due to habitat loss, pesticides, disease from commercial greenhouses, and—of course—Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). In addition to those threats, there is a…
Tags: bees, bumblebees, CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder, Conservation, Endangered Species Act, Franklin's Bumblebee, fungus, habitat loss, insects, petition, protect, severe decline, threats, Xerces Society
