Politics

The Law of the Jungle (review)

This is what we are losing, from the Andes to the Amazon. The Ecuadorian rainforest has been battled over for years, but we have to be the winners. Diversity and...

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World Tourism Day (WTD) 2014

Africa is just one part of the world that enjoys extensive tourism. It would certainly appreciate more investment in those areas that currently suffer badly from drought and flood, given...

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World Rhino Day 2014

One solution to poaching has been the dehorning programme, here shown well in the South African veldt. It’s likely that if all the populations were dehorned, then no more poaching...

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Global Warming’s final warning.

Will they see the light, or will be left with only Paris next year as a last-ditch effort to slow the global warming? The answer is basically in our hands-...

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WMO report on more pollution

The pristine corals of Indonesia are still preserved from the effects of tourist feet, but can they build a calcium carbonate skeleton if the water becomes even more acid? Raja...

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Vaccines for badgers (against bTB)

Badgers amuse the UK public, even in urban areas, by emerging from their setts and snuffling around their woods in a non-aggressive way, unless you are a farmer with sick...

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Primary forests-the action and the policy

The area of intact forest landscape (IFL) in the main climatic zones of KÃ ¶ppen-Geiger. Major countries holding our essential primary forest resource are shown in this detailed map. However,...

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Protect penguins from habitat loss

Hurry up, Adelies, before the Antarctic ice completely disappears ! Adelie penguin image; Credit: © Shutterstock 18 species of penguin were surveyed in Phil Trathan's BAS (British Antarctic Survey) publication...

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Elephant wars for Kruger

The antics of Kruger National Park's elephants might be an awesome sight you long to see, but the great number of animals in the magnificent park is being threatened by...

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International Tiger Day 2014

Too often, we only see the species of tiger in zoos, but this mother and kit have been carefully bred to ensure genetic variation in the Bengal tigers that remain....

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