News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 137
Public Land Protection Cells in India: A New Hope for Our Commons
- Inter Press Service
ANAND, India, Jun 03 (IPS) - Common lands are natural resources that are used collectively by a community, such as forests, pastures, ponds, and ‘wastelands’. They act as a resource base for non-cash, non-market economies that provides fodder, fuelwood, water, oils, fish, medicinal herbs, and a wide variety of fruits and vegetables to the local communities.
World Environment Day (II): Five More Planets Earth Urgently Needed
- Inter Press Service
Over Two Decades of Impunity for Environmental and Health Disaster in Peruvian Village
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Jun 03 (IPS) - "We are not asking for money, but for our health, for a dignified life," is the cry of the people of Choropampa, which lawyer Milagros Pérez continually hears 22 years after the environmental disaster that occurred in this town in the department of Cajamarca, in Peru´s northern Andes highlands, on the afternoon of Jun. 2, 2000.
World Environment Day: Burden of Environmental Decline Falls Heavily on Poor and Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jun 02 (IPS) - Barnabas Kamau’s home sits on a wetland in Rumuruti Laikipia County in the Rift Valley region - considered Kenya’s breadbasket. He settled in the area 15 years ago, attracted by the wetlands’ fertile grounds as they provide favourable farming and livestock activities conditions.
Complex Emergencies: In Kenyas Arid North, Locals Face Impact of Climate Change, Hunger and Poverty
- Inter Press Service
MARSABIT, KENYA, Jun 02 (IPS) - Darkuale Parsanti and his wife Mary Rampe are counting their losses: One by one, they have seen their livestock wiped out.
The Richest 1% Pollutes More than the Poorest 50%
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Jun 02 (IPS) - As an introduction to this year’s World Environment Day on 5 June, this report deals with how the excesses of the world’s population, mostly in the wealthiest countries, are causing so much harm to Planet Earth.
Rivers Have no Borders: The Motto of Their Defenders in Peru
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, May 30 (IPS) - "Water is part of our culture, it is intrinsic to the Amazon," said José Manuyama, a member of a river defense committee in his native Requena, a town located in the department of Loreto, the largest in Peru, covering 28 percent of the national territory.
Upset with the Opulence of the Rich? But the World's Children Are Paying the Bill
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, May 30 (IPS) - The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly–and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world's natural resources and pushing both current and future generations towards the edge of a predictable abyss.
Gender Sensitivity Key to Achieving Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
Toronto, May 27 (IPS) - While the climate crisis affects virtually every aspect of life, its impacts are not felt equally.
Not Enough Clean Water in Europe? Who Cares...
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, May 26 (IPS) - So busy as they are with strengthening military alliances and devoting billions of taxpayers' money to double their war budgets and subsidise fossil fuels, European Governments seem not to care about the reiterated alerts that their continent faces a serious risk: the reduced availability -and more polluted– drinking water.
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