News headlines for “Nature and Animal Conservation”, page 93
Recognizing Food & Land-Use Systems as Contributors to Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Nov 10 (IPS) - For a long time, the agriculture sector has been heralded as a success story for India. Spurred by the Green Revolution, it provided a path-breaking solution to feed the country's burgeoning population starting in the 1960s.
Fast-Track Climate Resilience Building of Small and Vulnerable Nations Ahead of COP28
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Nov 08 (IPS) - As the countdown to COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, continues, IPS caught up with Dr Oldman Koboto, Mauritius-based Manager for the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub (CCFAH).
PPPs Fiscal Hoax Is a Blank Financial Silver Bullet
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 08 (IPS) - Public-private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure and service provision are both costly and risky. Worse, PPPs typically fail to ensure universal, let alone fair access to public amenities.
Community Efforts Boost Wastewater Treatment in El Salvador - Video
- Inter Press Service
CHIRILAGUA, El Salvador, Nov 07 (IPS) - Neither the central government nor most of El Salvador's 262 municipalities have had the capacity to install enough wastewater treatment plants to prevent it from being discharged directly into the environment.
Deforestation, Encroachment Threaten West Africa's One Health Plans
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Nov 03 (IPS) - Thirty-three years ago, Bala Amerasekaran – a Sri Lankan by birth – visited Freetown, Sierra Leone. Since then, the West African nation has been his home, where Amerasekaran has dedicated his life to conserving the chimpanzee – Sierra Leone’s national animal.
Kashmir's Apple Industry Faces Dire Threats as Climate Change Takes its Toll
- Inter Press Service
SHOPIAN, INDIA, Nov 02 (IPS) - Of Kashmir’s seven million inhabitants, a staggering one million rely directly on apple farming. The region is pivotal in India’s apple and horticulture production, contributing to over 70 percent of the country’s apple supply. This not only provides income to farmers but also sustains a vast network of laborers, traders, and transporters within the fruit economy.
Communities Taking a Sting Out of Poaching With Alternative Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
CHIPATA, ZAMBIA, Nov 01 (IPS) - As we approach the forest in the village to appreciate Andrew Mbewe’s beekeeping enterprise, a bee from a hive close to the edge of the natural woodland stings him on the cheek.
Even Rich Nations Now Worried About Investor-State Dispute Settlements
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 01 (IPS) - Governments the world over are worried about investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) rules. These allow foreign investors to sue them for billions over new laws or policies reducing their profits.
Women Correct Historical Injustices, Build Climate Resilience Through Cash Pooling
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 31 (IPS) - Excluded by inheritance and ignored by big business, women farmers in Kenya are turning to innovative methods to become independent food producers and get the financial backing to ensure their success. Creating resilience is crucial to adapting to climate change and ensuring climate justice. Although women account for more than three-quarters of the agricultural labour force and manage 40 percent of small-scale farms, historically, they neither owned nor controlled the land because land rights were passed down to male relatives. It is a historic gender injustice whereby women could only access land through close male relatives.
The Worst Addiction: Population Growth
- Inter Press Service
PORTLAND, USA, Oct 27 (IPS) - Among the various troubling human addictions the one having the most worrisome consequences for humanity and planet Earth is population growth.
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