Imagine you had the chance to watch some young lions out on the African savannah taking their first gambolling steps under the protective eye of their mother. Or if you were on hand in the Arctic when a polar bear showed its young how to slide down a snow slope. Perhaps it is the idea… Continue reading
Posts tagged Biodiversity
Council empties the bins, and saves the barn owl
[/caption] “Think global, act local” has been out of fashion as a slogan for some years. Too parochial, perhaps. After all, how is a parish council to solve climate change? But sorting the world’s environmental woes through a myriad of local initiatives may not seem such a bad idea after all, as world leaders… Continue reading →
Biodiversity and how to save it — the world tries again
Targets to slow the extinction of plant and animal species have been agreed by 193 countries at the UN’s Biodiversity Conference in Japan last weekend (October 30). One of the central components in the Nagoya Agreement is a new protocol that rich and poor nations would share profits from pharmaceutical, crops or other products derived from… Continue reading →