Global Issues
News headlines for “Nature and Animal Conservation”, page 290
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.
Without Indigenous People, Conservation Is a Halfway Measure
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, USA, Sep 05 (IPS) - "You don't convert your own house in a tourist site," said Oussou Lio Appolinaire, an activist from Benin, wearing a traditional outfit in vivid yellows and greens. He was referring to opening up to tourists places that are sacred to indigenous people.
Big Oil and Activists Unite to Protect Endangered Whales
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 05 (IPS) - A rare case of intensive and decade-long collaboration between Big Oil, scientists and environmental activists has been hailed as a success story in protecting an endangered species of whale from extinction.
Stockbreeding – Opportunity and Threat for a Sustainable Latin America
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Sep 04 (IPS) - Stockbreeding generates enormous profits in Latin America, but it also has a broad and varied impact on the environment, which means it must urgently be turned into a sustainable, green-friendly, socially accepted and profitable activity.
Elephant Census Ramps Up Pressure to Stop Domestic Trade in Ivory
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 03 (IPS) - A dramatic decline in Africa's savanna elephant populations caused by poaching - as exposed by the results of a three-year aerial survey released this week - has piled pressure on reluctant governments to back proposals that would lead to bans on domestic trade in ivory.
Dire Warnings But Also Hope as IUCN Environmental Congress Opens
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 02 (IPS) - A congress billed as the world's largest ever to focus on the environment has opened to warnings that our planet is at a "tipping point" but also with expressions of hope that governments, civil society and big business are learning to work together.
Honduras still a death trap for environmental activists six months after Berta Cáceres’ slaying
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Sep 01 (IPS) - Chills ran down Tomás Gómez Membreño's spine when he first heard about the brutal murder of his renowned friend and ally, the Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, six months ago this week.
Obama Stresses Climate Change Urgency Ahead of IUCN Congress
- Inter Press Service
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sep 01 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama has stressed the urgency of tackling climate change in a speech to Pacific leaders in his home state of Hawaii.
Indigenous People Demand Shared Benefits from Forest Conservation
- Inter Press Service
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Aug 31 (IPS) - "Why don't the authorities put themselves in our shoes?" asked Cándido Mezúa, an indigenous man from Panama, with respect to native peoples' participation in conservation policies and the sharing of benefits from the protection of forests.
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