News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 655
BOLIVIA: Amazon Indigenous Communities Plan 1,000-km March
- Inter Press Service
The indigenous peoples of the Amazon region of Bolivia have declared themselves in a 'state of emergency' and announced that on May 20 they will begin a 1,000-kilometre march to La Paz to demand that the government defend their territory from being plundered by oil, logging and mining companies.
BULGARIA: Blue Danube Meanders Into Road Building
- Inter Press Service
The European Union Danube Strategy (DS), unfolding this year, is proving to be a litmus test for the viability of the concept of ‘green growth’ in Eastern Europe.
Guatemalan Wildlife at the Mercy of Traffickers
- Inter Press Service
The shortage of resources for law enforcement and high demand from the wealthy countries of the North have left the field wide open in Guatemala for trafficking of wild animals, many of which are endangered, warn experts and environmentalists.
San Fight Land Grab in Namibian Park
- Inter Press Service
Pensioner Makena Makanga slowly savours a piece of manketti fruit unaware that the tree it came from will soon be chopped down and mulched along with the rest of her forest to make way for a massive agribusiness project.
Q&A: Fewer Protests, More Political Pressure to Fight Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Moving away from public protests and towards exerting political pressure on leaders in industrialised countries is the strategy chosen by the environmental movement 350.org to fight global warming, said its co-founder Kelly Blynn in an interview with IPS.
Ecosystem in Peril after Gulf Oil Spill
- Inter Press Service
With engineers giving a best-case scenario of 'weeks' before the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is sealed, some scientists are warning that the region's ecosystem could face major long-term damage.
BIODIVERSITY: Oil Spill Will Devastate the North Sea Warn Experts
- Inter Press Service
If an oil spill similar to that in the Gulf of Mexico were to happen in the North Sea, it would devastate the Wattenmeer, one of the most fragile and important biodiversity hotspots in northern Europe.
WORLD: North Should Pay South Reparations for Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The North should pay reparations to the South for the effects of climate change.
BIODIVERSITY: Developers Stalk the Carpathians
- Inter Press Service
When the Slovakian government moved to open Tatra National Park to developers, last month, it did not consult experts or the public. Other protected sites across Central and Eastern Europe are said to be equally vulnerable.
Haiti Asks Expat Professionals to Return and Help
- Inter Press Service
Members of the Haitian diaspora responded with 'massive and spontaneous' aid immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake, with thousand of professionals leaving jobs abroad to go and assist their compatriots, according to a government minister.
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