Global Issues
News headlines for “Nature and Animal Conservation”, page 289
Mexico City’s Expansion Creates Tension between Residents and Authorities
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 23 (IPS) - People living in neighborhoods affected by the expansion of urban construction suffer a "double displacement", with changes in their habitat and the driving up of prices in the area, in a process in which "we are not taken into account," said Natalia Lara, a member of an assembly of local residents in the south of Mexico City.
Microsensor-Fitted Locust Swarms? Sci-fi Meets Conservation
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Sep 19 (IPS) - Every November, India's Gahirmatha beach in the Indian Ocean region develops a brownish-grey rash for 60 to 80 days. Half-a-million female Olive Ridley turtles emerge out of the waves to lay their eggs, over a hundred each. For the sheer numbers, this arrival is hard to miss.
New Government Inherits Conflict over Biggest Mine in Peru
- Inter Press Service
LIMA/CHALLHUAHUACHO, Sep 17 (IPS) - Of the 150 socioeconomic conflicts related to the extractive industries that Peru's new government inherited, one of the highest-profile is the protest by the people living near the biggest mining project in the history of the country: Las Bambas.
Militarised Conservation Threatens DRC’s Indigenous People – Part 2
- Inter Press Service
MUDJA/BIGANIRO, Sep 15 (IPS) - The Bambuti people were the original inhabitants of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the oldest national park in Africa whose boundaries date back to 1925 when it was first carved out by King Albert of Belgium. But forbidden from living or hunting inside, the Bambuti now face repression from both park rangers and armed groups.
New Public Website Offers Detailed View of Industrial Fishing
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 15 (IPS) - In a giant step for transparency at sea, environmentalists on Thursday unveiled a website that allows anyone with an Internet connection to see for free exactly where and when most of the world's industrial fishing boats actually fish.
Militarised Conservation Threatens DRC’s Indigenous People - Part 1
- Inter Press Service
MUDJA/BIGANIRO, Sep 14 (IPS) - It is late afternoon when a light drizzle begins to fall over a group of young men seated together in Mudja, a village about 20 kilometres north of Goma on the outskirts of the Virunga National Park. Mudja is home to a community of around 40 families of indigenous Bambuti, also known as ‘pygmies.'*
Making African Palm Oil Production Sustainable
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, USA, Sep 12 (IPS) - "In San Lorenzo they cut down the jungle to plant African oil palms. The only reason they didn't expand more was that indigenous people managed to curb the spread," Ecuadorean activist Santiago Levy said during the World Conservation Congress.
Conservation Congress Sets Ambitious Target to Protect Oceans
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 10 (IPS) - A major environmental conference of governments and NGOs has called on nations to set aside at least 30 percent of the world's oceans as "highly protected" areas by 2030, but delegates said opposition from China, Japan and South Africa had seriously undermined chances of success.
When It Comes to Conservation, Size Matters
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, USA, Sep 08 (IPS) - When the communities living in the Tatamá y Serranía de los Paraguas Natural National Park in the west of Colombia organised in 1996 to defend their land and preserve the ecosystem, they were fighting deforestation, soil degradation and poaching.
Communities See Tourism Gold in Derelict Bougainville Mine
- Inter Press Service
PANGUNA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Sep 07 (IPS) - The Panguna copper mine, located in the mountains of Central Bougainville, an autonomous region in the southwest Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea, has been derelict for twenty seven years since an armed campaign by local landowners forced its shutdown and triggered a decade-long civil war in the late 1980s.
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