News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 564
CONGO: Poachers Feel the Long Arm of New Law
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in the Republic of Congo are showing an encouraging new readiness to arrest and prosecute people trading in endangered species.
Global Warming Behind Somali Drought
- Inter Press Service
The severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which has caused the death of at least 30,000 children and is affecting some 12 million people, especially in Somalia, is a direct consequence of weather phenomena associated with climate change and global warming, environmental scientists say.
CENTRAL AMERICA: 'Green Economy' Not a Panacea
- Inter Press Service
The 'green economy' will not solve the problems of poverty and natural disasters in Central America as long as the development model continues to be based on over-consumption and over-production, regional experts say.
Africa Remains Hamstrung in Battle for Water and Sanitation
- Inter Press Service
The statistics coming out of Africa are staggering: 40 percent of Africa’s 1 billion people live in urban areas an 60 percent live in slums, where water supplies and sanitation are 'severely inadequate', according to the Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP).
BOLIVIA: Morales Clashes with Native Protesters over Road through Tropical Park
- Inter Press Service
The lack of regulations for consulting indigenous communities in Bolivia on initiatives that affect their territories is at the heart of a dispute over a road to facilitate traffic from Brazil, which would run through an enormous tropical national park self-governed by indigenous communities.
Lenape Take On Ford
- Inter Press Service
'We have been living here for thousands of years. Unfortunately, we are the original people of this land, but we get no respect,' says Vivian Milligan, in a tone filled with sarcastic laughter.
'Sustainable Development Must Start with People'
- Inter Press Service
When world leaders meet in Brazil next June for a U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, the third since the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the question lingering in the minds of many is: what really is 'sustainable development' in the context of a fast-changing world of growing poverty, hunger, pollution, political repression and social unrest?
Mexican Fisherwomen Organise Against Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Every night, Adlemi Marrufo goes out to catch bait crabs used to fish for octopus in this small seaside town and others along Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, as part of a women's cooperative that is working to adapt to and fight climate change.
Fragmented Efforts to Save Honduran Mangroves
- Inter Press Service
A mix of local and international initiatives are aimed at saving the mangrove forests and other coastal wetlands of Honduras, home to an abundance of marine life and a natural protective barrier against hurricanes, which have shrunk by over 80 percent on the Caribbean coast and almost a third on the Pacific coast.
8.7 Million Species Run Spaceship Earth
- Inter Press Service
The life support system that generates the planet’s air, water, and food is powered by 8.7 million living species according to the newest and best estimate. We know next to nothing about 99 percent of those unique species - except that lots of them are going extinct.
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