Do you know where your plywood is from? If at Home Depot, it may well be from the Choco Rainforest, one of the most endangered forests on Earth. Watch this expose by Brian Rodgers!
https://t.co/3by3DrXZqg
We can have our bread and biodiversity too, more or less.
This open-access reprint is a News and Views, for Nature Food, which appeared today. It talks about a paper by Chung and Liu in the same issue. https://t.co/cADSXiwvJF
At Saving Nature, we don’t always get ex-Presidents to enthuse about where we work, but we’ll take this endorsement any time!
The Leuser Ecosystem is featured in the new Netflix series narrated by Barack Obama, entitled Our Great National Parks.
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The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue we should take actions only after humans get sick. We sharply disagree.
https://t.co/R2mETBbBZa Saving Nature, we just lost two Science Board members — and two close friends. One of the last things Ed did was to vote on our restoration project in China. We will miss their advice keenly, but are so grateful for the support they gave us from the start.
Thrilled to be able to help REGUA — a most successful conservation group in the very threatened coastal forests of Brazil. Our funding will add more land to their already outstanding restoration efforts. https://t.co/5ocvUPdGpf
just published a major effort to use remote sensing and citizen science to map out the distribution of endangered species in The Americas. An international effort including colleagues in the USA and around the world, IUCN, BirdLife, eBird, and ABC. https://t.co/YaHKg2InRs
Veronika Perková is a Czech environmental journalist with bylines in BBC, Mongabay and Earth Island Journal, who hosts a monthly, solutions-focused podcast called Nature Solutionaries.
They are stories that will gladden your heart.
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There's a lot we can do in the USA towards slowing global heating gasses going into the atmosphere. Our tax dollars support massive deforestation which harms poor communities, the environment, and biodiversity. An editorial my colleagues and I wrote https://t.co/SoB5thcdKK
I am one of 100 scientists who have issued an open letter urging U.S. President Joe Biden and members of Congress to remove provisions promoting logging, forest biomass and fossil fuels from the infrastructure and reconciliation bills.
https://t.co/SsBP6hC1Jj
I was honoured to in a series of lectures organised by Aleksandra Jaeschke at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture "A collective expedition into the imaginary futures of the spaces of botany. Link to the wide-ranging lectures.
https://t.co/BF04Zb24wm
ICYMI: Helicopter surveys this year turned up no nests for what was once the largest population of Cape Sable seaside sparrows, an isolated group west of Shark River slough that wildlife ecologist @PimmStuart called an 'insurance claim' and the birds' best chance for survival.