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Billions of cubic yards of natural river-borne sediment are trapped behind the world’s 57,000 large dams and countless small ones. 
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More than 7.5 billion humans currently occupy Earth together with an estimated three trillion trees, and both of these populations require water. The growing human population and climate change are exacerbating a looming global water crisis that could potentially be averted, if humans paid more attention to the links between forests and water.
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June 7, 2013 Science Daily -▶ BIODIVERSITY VITAL TO MAINTAIN ECOSYSTEM AND HUMAN HEALTH ▶ Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time....http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/06/ecosystem-biodiversity.html MongaBay, March 17,2015 The Wildlife Trusts Guardian, January 15, 2015 ▶ RATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION PUTS LIFE ON EARTH AT RISK, SAY SCIENTISTS. Humans are ‘eating away at our own life support systems’ at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years, two new research papers say http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/15/rate-of-environmental-degradation-puts-life-on-earth-at-risk-say-scientists The Independent, November 03, 2014 ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON EXTINCTION CRISIS IN 40 YEARS WE HAVE DISAPPEARED HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILDLIFE http://sco.lt/8fK5eT HuffPostGreen, October 06, 2014 - ▶ WORLD FALLING BEHIND ON PLAN TO PROTECT NATURAL WORLD BY 2020, UN SAYS http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/nature-protection_n_5937094.html The Guardian - Vital Signs EcoInternet, October 01, 2014 Climate Desk, July 07, 2014 Conservation Magazine, University of Washington
Mongabay, May 22, 2014 REPORT PLOS ONE, February 25, 2014 Summit Citizen, November 19, 2013 ▶ ECOSYSTEM ALTERATIONS LEADING TO WIDESPREAD HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS http://summitcountyvoice.com/2013/11/18/study-ecosystem-alterations-leading-to-widespread-human-health-impacts/ --- WATCH -- Dr. Vandana Shiva WHY DOES LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY MATTER? THREAT TO ECONOMY, POLITICAL SECURITY, ENVIRONMENT AND LIFE ON EARTH WATCH University of Washington, Department of Public Health Mongabay, May 08, 2014 ▶ NEW HOLISTIC 'ONE HEALTH' CONNECTS HUMANS, ANIMALS AND ECOSYSTEMS. Recently, the dilemma of human–wildlife conflict has created great opportunity to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems for both people and ecosystems. The emerging holistic “One Health” movement explicitly recognizes the inextricable connections between human, animal, and ecosystem health, and is leading not only to new scientific research but also to projects that help people rise out of poverty, improve their health, reduce conflicts with wildlife, and preserve ecosystems, such as Bwindi’s tropical montane forest... http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0501-nicole-sri-ehp-one-health.html March 03, 2013 Global Issues -▶ LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY AND EXTINCTIONS http://www.globalissues.org/article/171/loss-of-biodiversity-and-extinctions
▶ TREE HEALTH, FOREST HEALTH LINKED WITH HUMAN HEALTH - OUR INTERCONNECTED LIVES http://sco.lt/85WZ2v EcoInternet, August 04, 2014 ▶ CLIMATE CHANGE TO HALVE HABITAT FOR OVER 10,000 COMMON SPECIES http://sco.lt/8G99Av ▶ MASSIVE DESERTIFICATION, MASS EPIDEMIC ILLNESSES COMING WITH GLOBAL WARMING AS OUR WORLD MELTS http://sco.lt/7KDmGv allAfrica.com, December 15, 2013
Just Means, March 11, 2014 ▶ ECONOMIC REPORT INTO BIODIVERSITY CRISIS http://sco.lt/868xd3 Inter Press Service, September 30, 2014
BBC News, June 05, 2014 BBC News, June 23, 2014
▶ ELDERS OF THE FOREST DISAPPEARING WORLDWIDE - IRREPLACEABLE HABITAT FOR MANY ANIMALS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3632517130/elders-of-the-forests-disappearing-worldwide-irreplaceable-habitat-for-many-animals
ConservationBytes.com. February 28, 2014 August 14, 2012 Science Daily The Permaculture Research Institute, October 21, 2013
▶ BALANCE OF NATURE: EXPOSING THE BIG GAME http://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/tag/balance-of-nature/ Guardian Environment, January 09, 2014
-▶ WEB-OF-LIFE UNRAVELLING - Healthy Ecosystems Vital for All Planetary Life http://sco.lt/7Obz0L CGIAR, January 28, 2014 WE'RE ON THE BRINK OF THE WORST DROUGHT IN 1,000 YEARS http://sco.lt/74mbHF
IUCN RED LIST OF ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS UNPRECEDENTED STUDY BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY LOSS PAINTS DIRE PICTURE FOR FUTURE OF HUMAN SPECIES http://sco.lt/4m6nZJ ▶ ESSAY: ECOLOGY IS THE MEANING OF LIFE: EMBRACING A SENSE OF "ENOUGHNESS" http://sco.lt/6m0XJZ eTNDaily, November 24, 2013 ▶ CHANGING OUR WORLD FOREVER. THE WAY TO A NEW, UNKNOWN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM http://sco.lt/8eWiUz ▶ SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT? http://sco.lt/5I5UeX ▶ FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL: OLD ECONOMICS OR SUSTAINING POLICY? http://sco.lt/8Y7sK9 May 10, 2013 United Nations Environmental Programme ▶ LOSS AND DEGRADATION OF NATURAL HABITAT THREATEN MIGRATORY BIRDS, PUSHING SPECIES TOWARD EXTINCTION http://www.unep.org/NewsCentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=2716&ArticleID=9498
▶ STATE OF THE WORLD'S BIRDS REPORT INDICATES A PLANET IN PERIL http://sco.lt/4yq6z3 THE COMPLEX LIFE CYCLE OF THE NATURAL WORLD
▶ THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SOIL UNDER OUR FEET - - SOIL AS A LIFELINE - CLIMATE CHANGE http://sco.lt/4nJvdp
▶ WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/8BIJP7
▶ HOW BIODIVERSITY COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE http://sco.lt/90Sr2n
▶ DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY OF FARMED PLANTS AND ANIMALS GATHERING PACE http://sco.lt/7o99MH
May 27, 2013 Science Daily ▶ EVEN FARM ANIMAL DIVERSITY IS DECLINING ACCELERATING SPECIES LOSS THREATENS HUMANITY http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130527100624.htm
▶ A CULTURE SEPARATED FROM NATURE CANNOT SURVIVE. BANKRUPTING NATURE http://sco.lt/8EqAwD
▶ DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY OF FARMED PLANTS AND ANIMALS GATHERING PACE http://sco.lt/7o99MH
▶ RESTORING RIVERS: THE LIFEBLOOD OF BOTH HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES http://sco.lt/5tVYLB
WATCH HOPE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE: RESTORING THE EARTH-- IN RWANDA, ETHIOPIA AND CHINA http://news.linktv.org/videos/hope-in-a-changing-climate-restoring-the-earth
▶ WETLANDS VITAL IN SUPPORTING HUMAN LIFE AND BIODIVERSITY http://sco.lt/6Nfjcn
July 16, 2013 Global Possibilities
---- WATCH --- VIDEO REPORT: June 10, 2013 PBS Newshour USING 'NATURE AS AN ASSET' TO BALANCE COSTA RICA'S FARMING WITH PRESERVATION http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june13/costarica_06-10.html
August 25, 2013 Inter Press Service
Rainforest Alliance ▶ ELDERS OF THE FOREST DISAPPEARING WORLDWIDE - IRREPLACEABLE HABITAT FOR MANY ANIMALS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3632517130/elders-of-the-forests-disappearing-worldwide-irreplaceable-habitat-for-many-animals
Science/AAAS, June 12, 2014
June 12, 2013 Forest News
SLIDESHOW ▶ **** IN COSTA RICA, FARMERS START TO SEE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY (As It Used to Be Before Man Decided He Knew Better) In Costa Rica, birds, bats and bees serve vital roles in controlling pests and pollinating crops. Now, researchers are measuring the contributions of these critters to encourage farmers to move away from the single-crop model and toward biodiversity http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/06/food-for-9-billion-costa-rica.html
WATCH "FROG: THE THIN GREEN LINE" A World Without Amphibians
▶ WILL SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY BENEFIT OR THREATEN WILD THINGS? http://sco.lt/6fkVAv
▶ BIO-ECONOMY vs BIODIVERSITY http://ow.ly/aDXdn
▶ PESTICIDES SPARK BROAD BIODIVERSITY LOSS http://sco.lt/8TdGdt
▶ PESTICIDES ARE KILLING OUR PLANET: DECIMATING DRAGONFLIES AND OTHER AQUATIC SPECIES http://sco.lt/8lqrQH
▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5oplFx
▶ CONTEMPORARY AGRICULTURE IS BURNING UP OUR PLANET http://sco.lt/6xIJJx
▶ THE GREAT AMERICAN CORPORATE GIVEAWAY: OUR PUBLIC WILDLIFE PRESERVES: PESTICIDES, CHEMICALS, GMO CROPS AND BIOLOGICAL DESERTS http://sco.lt/99bwx7 ▶ WHAT'S WRONG WITH TREE PLANTATIONS? http://sco.lt/4iLDeL
WATCH A Must see VIDEO for all. David Suzuki ▶ "BIOTECHNOLOGY GENETICS IS OUT OF CONTROL" http://sco.lt/4lxOIj
▶ RESTORING THE EARTH: THE BONN CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/4p7B3Z
LIVING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE TOWARD A NEW GLOBAL ETHOS http://sco.lt/6FzKSX ▶ CHANGING OUR WORLD FOREVER. THE WAY TO A NEW, UNKNOWN ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM http://sco.lt/8eWiUz ===============================
AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD The Natural Eye Project http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/
THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE?
WATCH "HOME" Yann Arthus-Bertrand An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet Solutions For A Sustainable Planet http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/
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▶ CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet ▶ BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life ▶ OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us ▶ OUR FOOD, OUR HEALTH, GMOs http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides
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HuffPost Green, March 22, 2015 BBC News, June 23, 2014 BBC News, June 05, 2014 The Permaculture Research Institute, October 21, 2013 ▶ ELDERS OF THE FOREST DISAPPEARING WORLDWIDE - IRREPLACEABLE HABITAT FOR MANY ANIMALS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3632517130/elders-of-the-forests-disappearing-worldwide-irreplaceable-habitat-for-many-animals PLOS ONE, February 25, 2014 Summit Voice, November 18, 2013 Conservation Magazine, University of Washington University of Washington, Department of Public Health
▶ ECOCIDE: A PLAGUE OF DEFORESTATION SWEEPS ACROSS SOUTH EAST ASIA WITH TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE AND BIODIVERSITY http://sco.lt/4lJ5ZR
Summit Voice, November 18, 2013 Stanford Daily, February 18, 2015 MongaBay, March 17,2015 One Green Planet, February 18, 2015 ▶ HUMANS ARE TURNING THE EARTH INTO A 'LONELY AND VERY DANGEROUS PLNET', ECOLOGIST WARNS http://sco.lt/4xff17 April 22, 2012 National Geographic ▶ SAVING LIVES, LIVELIHOODS AND LIVES By Harold E. Varmus, Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute; and Robert D. Hormats, Under Sectary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment ▶ Tragically—and to the detriment of all of us—Earth’s biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate. This is due to factors such as deforestation, environmental degradation, and habitat destruction from agriculture, settlement, and other uses; pollution; climate change; and chronic over-exploitation or poaching of fish and wildlife species. Scientists estimate that the planet is losing species at a rate 1,000 to 10,000 times above the rate of species extinction that would occur normally without human activity. Particularly disheartening is the fact that, in many cases, we are losing species before we even know of them or know how they fit into our shared planet.... http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/22/saving-lives-livelihoods-and-life/ WATCH AWESOME! BIODIVERSITY VISUALIZED Vancouver Film School - ▶ WHY BIODIVERSITY IS IMPORTANT? http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/biodiversity/importance/default.aspx The Economist, November 18, 2013
HuffPost Green, February 17, 2014 -▶ E.O.WILSON: PRESERVING BIODIVERSITY IS AN ETHICAL IMPERATIVE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/eo-wilson-preserving-biod_b_4803125.html - ▶ DON'T FORGET WHAT IS KEEPING YOU ALIVE: DAVID ATTENBOROUGH ON OUR ALIENATION FROM NATURE http://sco.lt/8oZkvZ FastCo Exist Inter Press Service, September 30, 2014 EcoInternet, October 01, 2014 The Guardian - Vital Signs Climate Desk, July 07, 2014 Climate Desk, July 07, 2014
Mongabay, May 22, 2014
Mongabay, May 08, 2014 NEW HOLISTIC 'ONE HEALTH' CONNECTS HUMANS, ANIMALS AND ECOSYSTEMS. Recently, the dilemma of human–wildlife conflict has created great opportunity to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems for both people and ecosystems. The emerging holistic “One Health” movement explicitly recognizes the inextricable connections between human, animal, and ecosystem health, and is leading not only to new scientific research but also to projects that help people rise out of poverty, improve their health, reduce conflicts with wildlife, and preserve ecosystems, such as Bwindi’s tropical montane forest... http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0501-nicole-sri-ehp-one-health.html ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON EXTINCTION CRISIS WE HAVE DISAPPEARED HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS IN 40 YEARS: http://sco.lt/8fK5eT
-- WATCH -- "THE IMPACT OF VANISHING BIODIVERSITY ON HUMAN HEALTH" http://news.linktv.org/videos/the-impact-of-vanishing-biodiversity-on-human-health ▶ HUMANITY HAS EXCEEDED 4 OF 9 'PLANETARY BOUNDARIES,' THAT KEEP HUMANITY IN A 'SAFE OPERATING SPACE' http://sco.lt/7Ji72v ▶ MASSIVE DESERTIFICATION, MASS EPIDEMIC ILLNESSES COMING WITH GLOBAL WARMING AS OUR WORLD MELTS http://sco.lt/7KDmGv ▶ LARGE-SCALE BIODIVERSITY IS VITAL TO MAINTAIN ECOSYSTEM AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/666xPN
▶ FUTURE GENERATIONS TO PAY FOR OUR MISTAKES: BIODIVERSITY LOSS IMPACT MAY NOT APPEAR FOR DECADES http://sco.lt/5kP4Of
May 29, 2013 Seed Daily -▶ EVEN FARM ANIMAL DIVERSITY IS DECLINING AS ACCELERATING SPECIES LOSS THREATENS HUMANITY http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Even_farm_animal_diversity_is_declining_as_accelerating_species_loss_threatens_humanity_999.html
OSLO (Reuters) - May 27, 2013 -▶ DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY OF FARMED PLANTS AND ANIMALS GATHERING PACE. A decline in the diversity of farmed plants and livestock breeds is gathering pace, threatening future food supplies for the world's growing population, the head of a new United Nations panel on biodiversity said on Monday... Zakri said there were 30,000 edible plants but that just 30 crops accounted for 95 percent of the energy in human food that is dominated by rice, wheat, maize, millet and sorghum.... He said it was "more important than ever to have a large genetic pool to enable organisms to withstand and adapt to new conditions." That would help to ensure food for a global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050 from 7 billion now.... http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/environment-food-idUSL5N0E80Q420130527
Just Means, March 11, 2014 One World News, December 9, 2013 -▶ HUMANS ARE TURNING THE EARTH INTO A 'LONELY AND VERY DANGEROUS PLANET", ECOLOGIST WARNS http://sco.lt/4xff17
▶ UN REPORT: URGENT ACTION NEEDED: GROWING HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS FROM SPREAD OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY UNEP said chemicals have become so important to daily life in today's world that the value of their output has grown to $4.12 TRILLION, compared to $171 billion in 1970. http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2862196581/un-report-urgent-action-needed-growing-health-and-environmental-hazards-from-spread-of-chemical-dependency
IUCN RED LIST OF ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS
▶ BALANCE OF NATURE: EXPOSING THE BIG GAME http://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/tag/balance-of-nature/
August 14, 2012 Science Daily -▶ STUDY DEMONSTRATES THAT ONE EXTINCTION LEADS TO ANOTHER http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120814213500.htm?+Animals+News+--+Nature%29 Global Issues -▶ WEB-OF-LIFE UNRAVELLING - Healthy Ecosystems Vital for All Planetary Life http://sco.lt/7Obz0L EcoInternet, August 04, 2014
THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US - ▶ NO TO BIODIVERSITY OFFSETTING: CONSERVING OUR BIODIVERSITY IS BECOMING DEPENDENT ON IT DESTRUCTION http://sco.lt/6ZjXGr ▶ MAJOR PALM OIL COMPANIES ACCUSED OF ECOCIDE, BREAKING ETHICAL PROMISES IN ASIA AND AFRICA http://sco.lt/8TkGjh BEAUTIFUL WATCH Ensia, August 12, 2014
-▶ THE END OF CORAL REEFS? AROUND FOR 10 MILLION YEARS, WIPED OUT IN 100 http://sco.lt/7y1XHt May 7, 2013 ▶ ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY' - HIGHEST LEVELS IN HUMAN HISTORY - ARCTIC OCEAN TO BE ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h ▶ HEALTH OF OCEANS 'DECLINING FAST' - MASS EXTINCTION MAY BE INEVITABLE http://sco.lt/8ZyX6v -▶ SURROUNDED BY DEFORESTATION, CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GORILLAS HANG ON BY A THREAD http://sco.lt/91dA7F WATCH: FROGS: THE THIN GREEN LINE A World Without Amphibians
THICH NHAT HANH: -▶ BEYOND ENVIRONMENT: FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH MOTHER EARTH | Guardian Sustainable Business http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/zen-thich-naht-hanh-buddhidm-business-values?intcmp=239
-▶ KEEPING NATURE IN OUR FUTURE: HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS ESSENTIAL FOR ECONOMIC AND PLANETARY SURVIVAL http://sco.lt/99SfhJ
August 20, 2013 Guardian Environment BEYOND GDP: VIDEO REPORT THE SEARCH FOR A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM -- THIS TIME WITH MEANING - ▶ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT TO WORSEN OVER TIME AS RESOURCES BECOME HARDER TO REACH http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/03/25/3970411.htm -▶ THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH" http://sco.lt/5nT3OT Upside, February 28, 2013
- ▶ MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. RIVERS ARE TOO POLLUTED TO SUPPORT LIFE SHOCKING REPORT REVEALS http://sco.lt/5JvEi9 ▶ A DISASTER: LOSS OF TWO THIRDS OF TOP PREDATORS CAUSING GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS TO COLLAPSE http://sco.lt/7XHisr
Mongabay, December 3, 2013
allAfrica.com, December 15, 2013
August 26, 2013 Yale Environment 360
eTNDaily, November 24, 2013
August 19, 2013 Yale Environment 360 ▶ BRINGING BACK THE NIGHT: THE FIGHT AGAINST LIGHT POLLUTION http://e360.yale.edu/feature/bringing_back_the_night_the__fight_against_light_pollution/2681/
▶ THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SOIL UNDER OUR FEET - - SOIL AS A LIFELINE - CLIMATE CHANGE http://sco.lt/4nJvdp
29 April, 2013 Planet Ark
▶ FOOD FORESTS CAN MITIGATE RISKS OF "FEAST OR FAMINE" - BIG CORPORATE AG IS NOT THE ANSWER http://sco.lt/8q2M41
▶ WHAT'S BAD ABOUT TREE PLANTATIONS? http://sco.lt/4iLDeL
A Must see VIDEO for all - Geneticist David Suzuki: "BIOTECHNOLOGY GENETICS IS OUT OF CONTROL"
▶ CONTEMPORARY AGRICULTURE IS BURNING UP OUR PLANET http://sco.lt/99tRI1
▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE, ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5oplFx
VIDEO KQED Quest TOP CATS: HOW PUMAS AND OTHER APEX PREDATORS' POPULATIONS AFFECT THE BIG BIODIVERSITY PICTURE http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/05/01/top-cats-how-pumas-and-other-apex-predators-populations-affect-the-big-biodiversity-picture/
August 13, 2013 Scientific American
▶ SAVE THE FROG, SAVE OURSELVES - The Incredible Role Of Frogs in Our Biosystems http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0904-frog_editorial.html?fbfnpg
▶ SAVE THE BEES, SAVE ME http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides?q=SAVE+THE+BEES
WATCH 300 YEAR OLD FOOD FOREST IN VIETNAM Built on 2 acres of land and still functioning well in the same family 28 generations later http://sco.lt/8avJaL
GR8 VIDEO - AWHAR RESTORING THE MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHES IN IRAQ - FULL EPISODE
VIDEO: INTO THE HEART OF ECUADOR'S YASUNI A PENDING CORPORATE OIL PLUNDER ENOUGHNESS WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY
-▶ DAMS, ECOCIDE AND WATER RIGHTS: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, ECOSYSTEM, FORESTS DEVASTATED - BIG MONEY DRIVES EXTINCTION http://sco.lt/79BRmT -▶ MEGA MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS DESTROYING LOCAL COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/8nJQf3 International Institute for Environment and Development, March 18, 2013
May 10, 2013 ▶ MARCH TOWARD DISASTER: WORLD HITS 400 PPM CO2 MILESTONE' http://sco.lt/7yyCx7
▶ WHO OWNS NATURE? CORPORATE POWER AND THE FINAL FRONTIER IN THE COMMODIFICATION OF LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2299601530/who-owns-nature-corporate-power-and-the-final-frontier-in-the-commodification-of-life -▶ BANKRUPTING NATURE: DENYING OUR PLANETARY BOUNDARIES http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/bankrupting-nature-denying-our-planetary-boundaries
▶ 12 MOST AMAZING TIME-LAPSE VIDEOS OF STARS, LANDSCAPES AND URBAN SCENES http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/natural-sciences/12-most-amazing-time-lapse-videos-stars-landscapes-and-urban-scenes/page/2/#slide-top
▶ *** ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH =======================
HOW SMART ARE PLANTS? THE INCREDIBLE PLANT "BRAIN" COMMUNICATION
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-▶ RESTORING THE EARTH: THE BONN CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/4p7B3Z AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD The Natural Eye Project http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/ WATCH "HOME" Yann Arthus-Bertrand An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet Solutions For A Sustainable Planet http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/
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FOLLOW MY SCOOPITs ▶ BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life ▶ OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us ▶ CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health ▶ CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet ▶ OUR FOOD, OUR HEALTH http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides
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March/April 2013 - UTNE READER Contrary to conventional wisdom, an overemphasis on cleanliness may be hindering the benefits of biodiversity in our homes. We live at the crossroads of three global megatrends, three barreling and intertwined juggernauts of modernity. The first is the massive migration of humanity to the world’s cities. By 2050, two-thirds of all humans on Earth will live in urban areas.... The second is the loss of biodiversity. Species are disappearing, both from the places where we live and from the earth as a whole... And then there’s the third trend—the one that, at first glance, seems not to belong with the others. The prevalence of allergies and chronic inflammatory diseases among urban populations in developed countries has skyrocketed in recent years....
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Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself is the best teacher.,, http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/what-would-nature-do/vandana-shiva-everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-in-the-forest
WATCH: The Future of Food-Part 2 Vandana Shiva http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:B8xKrZ_sr-UJ:www.foxnews.com/health/2012/12/06/genetically-modified-foods-what-need-to-know/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
WATCH: A SYSTEM BASED ON PROFITS IS UNSUSTAINABLE ....Vandana Shiva on Industrial Agriculture http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1614565249/a-system-based-on-profits-is-unsustainable-vandana-shiva-on-industrial-agriculture
Vandana Shiva: Corporate monopoly of seeds must end http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2920670940/vandana-shiva-corporate-monopoly-of-seeds-must-end
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European Environment Agency (EEA): Consumption of products and services impacts the environment in many different ways.
delaneygrimes-sarahmcfadyen's curator insight,
February 7, 2014 2:00 AM
In this article they include the many things that are continuously brought to the populations attention about out earth and how we treat it. But in the passage it includes many unbelievable facts such as roughly 89 million gallons of food is put into waste each year. Sometimes this is the approach you need to catch peoples attention on the effects that we are causing our planet.
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Biodiversity loss is probably a challenge that is often ignored as climate change looms. Currently the world is losing species at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, further, it is currently seeing the sixth mass extinction.
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Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine.
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Read the full story of Biodiversity vital for maintaining ecosystem functions in drylands - Washington, Jan 13 : Diverse plant life may play a crucial role in buffering the negative impact of climate change and desertification in dryland...
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CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: Poverty and biodiversity loss are two of the world’s dire challenges. Claims of conservation’s contribution to poverty alleviation, however, remain controversial. Here, we assess the flows of ecosystem services provided to people by priority habitats for terrestrial conservation, considering the global distributions of biodiversity, physical factors, and socioeconomic context
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Al Jazeera does an indepth investigation: WATCH:Does 'biopiracy' endanger world food supplies? Seed monopolies could affect livelihoods of farmers, biodiversity. Patenting crop-breeding techniques has economic, ecological and ethical implications. Currently, five biotech corporations account for 77 percent of patents on living organisms. Via pdjmoo
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The focus on technologies is problematic because of the types of controversial new technologies that are promoted, including biomass incineration, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, etc. Nuclear and GMOs are not explicitly endorsed, but would fit with the approach. The market-based approach has been heavily criticised by NGOs as it would mean assigning private property rights to nature, commodifying and privatising nature. Leaving nature to the market would undermine the opportunities of communities and states to protect the commons. Also the bitter lessons from the carbon trading debacle seem to be entirely ignored when UNEP proposes tradeable biodiversity credits. The UNEP reports exposes a misguided belief in markets, which is astonishing after the financial crisis. It is as if that example of the chronic failure of deregulation and market-based approaches had never happened.
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In a development that has important implications for conservation, scientists are increasingly focusing not just on what species are present in an ecosystem, but on the roles that certain key species play in shaping their environment.
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A LOVELY WATCH "THE LAST ORANGUTAN EDEN" (53:10) PBSNature Ecologist Chris Morgan travels to the jungles of Northern Sumatra to document the work being done to save its population of wild orangutans. Asia’s most intelligent ape once roamed across the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java, but today, fewer than 7,000 Sumatran orangutans remain in the wild. The film cites rapid deforestation — clearing the land for vast palm oil plantations — as the chief reason for the species’ declining population. But as Morgan shows, conservationists are trying to reverse that trend by teaching orphaned orangutans the survival skills they’ll need for release back into the jungle. He also accompanies researchers deep into a remote and protected peat swamp forest to study wild orangutans up close to learn about their culture and behavior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOgBgzOMNI
Mongabay, July 05, 2016 ▶ BORNEAN ORANGUTAN DECLARED CRITICALLY ENDANGERED AS FORESTS SHRINK http://ow.ly/2efq3029o0w
VIDEO (4:11) INDONESIA: ORANGUTAN POPULATION THREATENED BY HUMAN LIT FOREST FIRES TO CLEAR FORESTS FOR PALM OIL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0UnuT5mCP4
*** AWARD WINNING FILM *** REMEMBERING "GREEN" An Award Winning Documentary by Patrick Rouxel on the Indonesian rainforest, deforestation and orangutan extinction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WNgoqBGw4Y
Multi award winning. Set in Indonesia. Meet Green, an orangutan and victim of human impact. Follow the devastating journey as her home is destroyed by logging, clearing for palm oil plantations, and the choking haze of rainforest fires. Hauntingly poetic and without narration, the film creatively depicts the effects of consumerism on tropical rainforests as we are faced with our personal accountability in the loss of the world's rainforests http://sco.lt/6IIb0T
The Dodo, Aprl 09, 2015
All Things Considered, March 11, 2015
Nation of Change, November 11, 2013 ▶ HOW FOOD WITH PALM OIL IS WIPING OUT ORANGUTANS AND ENSLAVING WORKERS http://www.nationofchange.org/how-food-palm-oil-wiping-out-orangutans-and-enslaving-workers-1384182288
▶ DO YOUR COOKIES AND SHAMPOO CONTAIN "DEFORESTATION"?
One Green Planet ▶ ARE YOU EATING DIRTY OIL? THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE PALM OIL INDUSTRY http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/are-you-eating-dirty-oil-the-environmental-impacts-of-the-palm-oil-industry/
WATCH CNN MISSION TO SAVE SUMATRA'S RAINFOREST "EXPEDITION: SUMATRA" An eight-part program with our Special Correspondent Philippe Cousteau who explores the Sumatran rainforest and its animal sanctuaries. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/environment/
---- WATCH ---- INDIGENOUS AND THEIR FORESTS DESTROYED IN SARAWAK, MALAYSIA AS TOP LEVEL CORRUPTION REVEALED
Mongabay, February 11, 2015
PLANET PALM OIL The Bait and Switch of Palm Oil Giants
Mongabay, February 03, 2015
The Ecologist, February 24, 2015 ▶ PALM OIL WIPING OUT AFRICA'S GREAT APE RAINFORESTS http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2768642/palm_oil_wiping_out_africas_great_ape_rainforests.html
The Dodo PICTURES THEY WILL DIE HERE IN THEIR CAGES
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14 February 2013 - The Guardian ▶ 80% OF INDONESIA' SUMATRAN ORANGUTAN POPULATION HIT BY PALM OIL DEFORESTATION - IN PICTURES Numbers decline by a shocking 80% in Tripa peat swamp forest as deliberate fires are set to clear tracts for palm oil plantations... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2013/feb/14/sumatran-orangutan-tripa-indonesia-deforestation
▶ MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF RARE SUMATRAN ORANGUTANS LOST IN INDONESIAN SWAMP FIRES http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/1319#.T3UO_qEtujk.twitte
The Guardian March 28, 2012 ▶ RARE SUMATRAN ORANGUTANS DYING, BURNT ALIVE, AS FIRES RAGE IN INDONESIAN SWAMP FOREST http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/28/sumatran-orangutans-dying-indonesia-forest-fire
Mongabay, October 07, 2014
Mongabay, October 08, 2014 ▶ HELPING ORANGUTANS SURVIVE: NEW PROJECT AIM TO CONNECT HABITAT FRAGMENTS IN KALIMANTAN http://news.mongabay.com/2014/1008-gfrn-joshi-orangutans-2.html
July 4, 2012 Focusing On Wildlife
Red Orbit, July 18, 2014
▶ RAREST GORILLAS LOSE HALF THEIR HABITAT IN 20 YEARS http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1001-great-apes-habitat.html
VIDEO REPORT Ten News Australia "PALM OIL ECOCIDE" http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1561454232/palm-oil-ecocide-ten-news-australia-video
July 17, 2013 Mongabay ▶ 80% OF RAINFORESTS IN MALAYSIAN BORNEO LOGGED - ALONG WITH ALL LIFE WITHIN IT http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0717-borneo-rainforest-logging.html
May 25, 2013 The Observer -▶ SUMATRAN RAINFOREST WILL MOSTLY DISAPPEAR WITHIN 20 YEARS WITH ALL LIFE WITHIN IT http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/26/sumatra-borneo-deforestation-tigers-palm-oil
IN PICTURES ONCE A RAINFOREST Redd Monitor, April 08, 2013 KALIMANTAN'S OIL PALM CATASTROPHE IN PICTURES
AUDIO SLIDESHOW
▶ NEW STUDY SLAMS INDONESIA'S FOREST PROTECTION - ONLY 4% OF FOREST WILL BE INTACT http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4470&Itemid=214
▶ WILDLIFE IN THE TROPICS PLUMMETS BY OVER 60 PERCENT http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0515-hance-living-planet-report-tropics.html
▶ SUMATRAN RAINFORESTS RAVAGED ALONG WITH ALL LIFE WITHIN IT - FOR INVASIVE PALM OIL http://sco.lt/6Sdg13
FEATURED VIDEO Mongabay INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY WITNESSES END OF FOREST FOR PALM OIL http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0326-muaratae-video.html
Der Spiegel, May 02, 2014
▶ INDONESIA LOST 8.8m ha OF FOREST IN THE 2000's, GENERATING SEVEN BILLION TONS OF CO2 http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3579095895/indonesia-lost-8-8m-ha-of-forest-in-the-2000s-generating-7-billion-tons-of-co2
▶ THE CORPORATE PALM OIL HOLOCAUST: ORANGUTAN CLINGS TO LAST REMAINING A ENTIRE FOREST BULLDOZED http://sco.lt/8lT2Ar
▶ “SUSTAINABLE" PALM OIL SHOULD NOT DRIVE DEFORESTATION http://sco.lt/7N5vU1
▶ MAJOR PALM OIL COMPANIES ACCUSED OF ECOCIDE, BREAKING ETHICAL PROMISES IN ASIA AND AFRICA -- INDONESIA IS THE WORST http://sco.lt/7DsLLd
▶ PALM OIL ECOCIDE - THE DEFORESTATION HOLOCAUST: Fast-Tracking Our Own Extinction http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1510545458/fast-tracking-our-own-extinction-the-deforestation-holocaust-
▶ WORLD LOSING BIODIVERSITY THOUSAND TIMES FASTER THAN NATURAL EXTINCTION: UN http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3618052038/world-losing-biodiversity-thousand-times-higher-than-natural-extinction-un
ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON EXTINCTION CRISIS IN 40 YEARS WE HAVE DISAPPEARED HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS: DEFORESTATION, OCEANS, AGRICULTURE http://sco.lt/8fK5
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The Guardian, July 10, 2017 EARTH'S SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION EVENT IS UNDER WAY, SCIENTISTS WARN The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, A “biological annihilation” of wildlife in recent decades means a sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is under way and is more severe than previously feared, according to research. Scientists analysed both common and rare species and found billions of regional or local populations have been lost. They blame human overpopulation and overconsumption for the crisis and warn that it threatens the survival of human civilisation, with just a short window of time in which to act.
Ghana News, August 10, 2018 STUDY SAYS SUBSTANTIAL WILD MAMMALS AND HALF OF ALL PLANTS DESTROYED BY HUMANITY Of all the birds left in the world, 70 percent are poultry chickens and other farmed birds, a study says. http://www.ghananewsagency.org/
The New York Times, September 27, 2014
Vox, September 30, 2014
Live Science, February 10, 2014 - ▶ LAST TIME, IT TOOK 60,000 YEARS TO KILL NEARLY EVERYTHING ON EARTH: WE'RE DOING IT IN 250 YEARS http://www.livescience.com/43245-permian-mass-extinction-duration.html Just Brilliant: WATCH
May 6, 2013 Newsweek, The Daily Beast THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? -▶ Are we in the first act of a mass extinction that will end in the death of millions of plant and animal species across the planet, including us? Proponents of the “sixth extinction” theory believe the answer is yes. Five mass extinctions have nearly wiped out life on earth. As Annalee Newitz writes in her new book, the sixth is coming... http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/06/the-sixth-mass-extinction-is-upon-us-can-humans-survive.html
Guardian Environment, September 03, 2014
NPR FreshAir, February 12, 2014 IN THE WORLD'S "SIXTH EXTINCTION": ARE HUMANS THE ASTEROID? Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of the new book The Sixth Extinction. It begins with a history of the "big five" extinctions of the past, and goes on to explain how human behavior is creating this sixth one — including our use of fossil fuels and the effects of climate change. "We are effectively undoing the beauty and the variety and the richness of the world which has taken tens of millions of years to reach," Kolbert tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "... We're sort of unraveling that. ... We're doing, it's often said, a massive experiment on the planet and we really don't know what the end point is going to be." http://www.npr.org/2014/02/12/275885377/in-the-worlds-sixth-extinction-are-humans-the-asteroid
Wired Science, May 08, 2014 - ▶ ONE OF THE BIGGEST ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS IN THE LAST 4.5 BILLION YEARS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW http://www.wired.com/2014/05/one-of-the-6-biggest-ecological-disasters-in-the-last-4-5-billion-years-is-happening-right-now/
July 26, 2013 Climate Progress -▶ MANY SPECIES WILL HAVE TO EVOLVE 10,000 TIMES FASTER TO ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/26/2294101/many-species-will-have-to-evolve-10000-times-faster-to-adapt-to-climate-change-study-finds/?mobile=nc
-▶ LARGE SCALE BIODIVERSITY IS VITAL TO MAINTAIN BOTH ECOSYSTEM AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/666xPN
TriplePundit, January 27, 2012 -▶ BIODIVERSITY LOSS TO BE GIVEN SAME STATUS AS CLIMATE CHANGE http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/biodiversity-loss-deserves-attention-climate-change/
-▶ CLIMATE CHANGE ALREADY HAVING MAJOR EFFECTS ON ECOSYSTEMS AND SPECIES http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet/p/3912923984/climate-change-already-having-major-effects-on-ecosystems-and-species
-▶ CLIMATE CHANGE TO HALVE HABITAT FOR OVER 10,000 COMMON SPECIES http://sco.lt/8G99Av
The Star Phoenix, February 18, 2014 -▶ THE SIXTH EXTINCTION EXPLORES HUMANITY'S ROLE IN MAKING THE PLANET LETHAL TO OTHER LIFE FORMS http://www.thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/books/Extinction+explores+humanity+role+making+planet/9522257/story.html
Truthout, July 21, 2014
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July 11, 2013 Care2 -▶ GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: SPECIES WE'VE LOST IN THE LAST TEN YEARS http://ow.ly/n9T7n
National Geographic, December 15, 2013 -▶ 20,000 SPECIES ARE NEAR EXTINCTION: IT IS TIME TO RETHINK HOW WE DECIDE WHAT TO SAVE. Choosing the ones to save is driven mostly by whether we like them or not ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131216-conservation-environment-animals-science-endangered-species/
Live Science, September 09, 2014
Care2, May 15, 2014
National Geographic, August 20, 2014
WEB-OF-LIFE UNRAVELING HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS VITAL FOR ALL PLANETARY LIFE
HuffingtonPost Green, August 26, 2014
Phys.org, September 02, 2014
WATCH ELIZABETH KOLBERT ON HOW HUMANS ARE CAUSING LARGEST DIE-OFF SINCE DINOSAUR AGE http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/11/the_sixth_extinction_elizabeth_kolbert_on
WE WERE WARNED UN Environment Programme August 15, 2010 -▶ 200 SPECIES EXTINCT EVERY DAY, UNLIKE ANYTHING SINCE DINOSAURS DISAPPEARED 65 MILLION YEARS AGO According to the UN Environment Programme, the Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction of life. Scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours. This is nearly 1,000 times the "natural" or "background" rate and, say many biologists, is greater than anything the world has experienced since the vanishing of the dinosaurs nearly 65m years ago... http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/16/nature-economic-security
Grist, February 28, 2014 ▶ IN "THE SIXTH EXTINCTION", ELIZABETH KOLBERT REPORTS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF A DYING WORLD http://grist.org/climate-energy/in-the-sixth-extinction-elizabeth-kolbert-reports-from-the-frontlines-of-a-dying-world/ ▶ THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY BY ELIZABETH KOLBERT: INTERVIEWS AND EXCERPT http://sco.lt/6kP4kL Yale Environment 360, February 17, 2014
- ▶ A CULTURE SEPARATED FROM NATURE: BANKRUPTING NATURE THREATENS CIVILIZATION http://sco.lt/5XbihV
VIDEO REPORT PBS Newshour EXTINCTION WEEK SERIES OF REPORTS ON EXTINCTIONS http://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/extinction-week/
Mongabay, June 16, 2014 - ▶ OVER 800 MORE SPECIES ADDED TO IUCN THREATENED LIST, INCLUDING 44 LEMURS http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0616-hance-iucn-redlist-2014.html
Mongabay, November 26, 2013 -▶ OVER 350 SPECIES ADDED IN LAST SIX MONTHS TO THE IUCN RED LIST OF 21,286 THREATENED SPECIES http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1125-hance-iucn-red-list-update.html?n3ws1ttr
International Union for Conservation of Nature , June 12, 2014
▶ SAVING THE WORLD'S SPECIES FROM OBLIVION WILL COST AROUND $80 BILLION A YEAR -- A WISE INVESTMENT http://sco.lt/60tUZt
FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL Old Economics or Sustaining Policy?
HuffPost Green, March 29, 2014 - ▶ WORLD ON BRINK OF SIXTH GREAT EXTINCTION, SPECIES DISAPPEARING FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/sixth-great-extinction-species-disappearing_n_5412571.html
-▶ TRACKING THE CAUSES OF MASSIVE MONARCH BUTTERFLY DECLINE: GMOs, PESTICIDES, HABITAT LOSS DUE TO MEGA MONOCROP FARMING http://sco.lt/8iXChl
▶ OUR GMO CORNFIELDS ARE TOO QUIET - ALL LIFE CHEMICALLY EXTERMINATED - EXCEPT THE GENE-ALTERED CORN http://sco.lt/6przzF
Psychology Today, May 15, 2014 ▶ ECOCIDE IS SUICIDE: COMPASSION AND PERSONAL REWILDING http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201405/ecocide-is-suicide-compassion-and-personal-rewilding
LiveScience, June 17, 2014
- ▶ THE BARBARIC ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE FLOURISHES AND MUST CEASE http://sco.lt/6iIjtx
-▶ WHAT MAKES AN ECOSYSTEM ENDANGERED? IUCN'S "RED LIST" CRITERIA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/iucn-red-list-criteria-endangered-ecosystem_n_3244326.html
-▶ DAMS, ECOCIDE AND WATER RIGHTS -▶ BIG MONEY DRIVES EXTINCTION Indigenous Communities, EcoSystems, Forests Devastated
VIDEO: WATER IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
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Endangered Species Coalition: -▶ FUELING EXTINCTION : HOW DIRTY ENERGY DRIVES WILDLIFE TO THE BRINK PDF Download http://fuelingextinction.org/index.php/component/content/article?id=70
-▶ MASS EXTINCTION FORECAST WITH 6C TEMPERATURE RISE - RAPID WARMING LEAVES FEW CHOICES http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/01/mass-extinction-forecast-with-6c-temperature-rise/
International Business Times, February 25, 2014 -▶ RISING SEA LEVELS TO SWALLOW LOW-LYING ISLANDS WITH RARE ANIMAL SPECIES http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/540429/20140225/climate-change-global-warming-island-sanctuaries-new.htm
SF Gate, January 26, 2014 -▶ CALIFORNIA DROUGHT THREATENS COHO SALMON WITH EXTINCTION http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/California-drought-threatens-coho-salmon-with-5175736.php
- ▶ GREENLAND'S MELTING: CREATING A DIFFERENT CLIMATE THAN EARTH HAS EVER SEEN http://sco.lt/8bjv73
-▶ ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY - HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h
Summit Voice, June 06, 2014 WATCH 300 YEARS OF FOSSIL FUELS IN 300 SECONDS
-- WATCH-- Documentary Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction is the first feature documentary to investigate the growing threat to Earth’s life support systems from this unprecedented loss of biodiversity. Through interviews with leading scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and indigenous and religious leaders, the film explores the causes, the scope, and the potential effects of the mass extinction, but also looks beyond the immediate causes of the crisis to consider how our cultural and economic systems, along with deep-seated psychological and behavioral patterns, have allowed this situation to develop, continue to reinforce it, and even determine our response to it.
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Nature, April 08, 2014
Guardian Environment, June 11, 2014
- ▶ PRIMATOLOGIST WARNS OF POSSIBLE GREAT APE EXTINCTION http://sco.lt/7zDhMf
-▶ SURROUNDED BY DEFORESTATION, CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GORILLAS HANG ON BY A THREAD http://sco.lt/91dA7F
Mongabay, September 27, 2013 -▶ FORGOTTEN SPECIES: THE NEARLY EXTINCT PRIMATE THAT CAN BE SHOT ON SIGHT - According to the IUCN Red List, a staggering 48 percent of the world's primates are threatened with extinction http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0927-hance-forgotten-niger-delta-red-colobus.html#kZ4cqYPp9fQzKI3c.99
-▶ 'LITTLE DODO' FACES EXTINCTION: RACING TO SAVE THE LITTLE DODO FROM IT'S COUSIN'S FATE http://sco.lt/4tF68n
Animal Planet, April 01, 2014
▶ TWO THIRDS LOSS OF TOP PREDATORS CAUSING GLOBAL ECOSYSTEMS TO COLLAPSE - IMPACTING BOTH ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/8K1lJJ
-▶ SUMATRAN TIGER'S LAST STRONGHOLD http://sco.lt/8B8NWb
-▶ LOSING OUR BIG CATS: DEADLY POISON THREAT TO LAST REMAINING TIGERS IN THAILAND AND INDIA http://sco.lt/5fRl3Z
-▶ AFRICAN SAVANNAH LOSES TWO-THIRDS OF ITS LIONS IN 50 YEARS http://sco.lt/8ZYM0v
-▶ LIONS EXTINCT IN 25 AFRICAN COUNTRIES & POPULATIONS IN MORE TROUBLE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT http://sco.lt/6qoofB
Mongabay, December 03, 2013
Salon, December 04, 2013 -▶ THE SAHARA'S EXPERIENCING A 'CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE' OF ITS WILDLIFE http://www.salon.com/2013/12/04/the_saharas_experiencing_a_catastrophic_collapse_of_its_wildlife/
Bee Strawbridge Blog -▶ MASS INSECT EXTINCTION; THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM? http://www.beestrawbridge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/mass-insect-extinction.html
All About Wildlife, March 2, 2011 -▶ U.S. DECLARED EASTERN COUGAR TO BE EXTINCT http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/american-wildlife/eastern-cougar-declared-extinct/5740
-▶ 62% OF ALL AFRICA'S FOREST ELEPHANTS SLAUGHTERED YEARS (Warning: Graphic Images) http://sco.lt/80mNeb
-▶ CHADS LAST ELEPHANTS - NUMBERS PLUNGE FROM 4,300 TO 450 http://sco.lt/8nnEJd
-▶ RHINOS IN CRISIS: POACHING AND ILLEGAL TRADE REACH HIGHEST LEVELS http://sco.lt/6zVwtl
-▶ INSIDE THE GLOBAL INDUSTRY THAT'S SLAUGHTERING AFRICA'S ELEPHANTS - A CRIMINAL HORROR http://sco.lt/6q74M5
--- WATCH -- CNN VIDEO WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT THE POACHING CRISIS
Guardian Environment, November 9, 2013
New York Times, February 01, 2014
Wildlife Extra News -
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-▶ DECLINE IN BIODIVERSITY OF FARMED PLANTS AND ANIMALS GATHERING PACE http://sco.lt/7o99MH
-▶ WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME HAS KILLED UP TO 6.7 MILLION BATS: PESTICIDES LINKED TO IMMUNO-SUPPRESSION http://sco.lt/5dc13Z
-▶ BATTLE FOR THE BEES: Dying Bees Raise Alarm For Humans - Europe Bans Pesticide http://sco.lt/8QOFgv
-▶ MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION PLUNGES 59%. NOW AT LOWEST LEVEL EVER http://sco.lt/81D2Sv
-▶ STATE OF THE WORLD'S BIRDS REPORT INDICATES A PLANET IN PERIL http://sco.lt/4jydYv
-▶ PESTICIDES ARE KILLING OUR PLANET: DECIMATING POLLINATORS, DRAGONFLIES AND OTHER AQUATIC INSECTS -- AND YOU !! http://sco.lt/5XzNlx
WATCH: FROGS: THE THIN GREEN LINE A World Without Amphibians
-▶ KEYSTONE SPECIES LOSS COULD CAUSE ECOSYSTEM TO COLLAPSE http://news.msn.com/science-technology/keystone-species-loss-could-cause-ecosystem-to-collapse
-▶ HUNTING SEED DISPERSING ANIMALS PUSHING CENTRAL AFRICAN FORESTS TOWARD ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE http://sco.lt/6Q8PZp
Chicago Tribune, December 08, 2013
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION LIST OF EXTINCTIONS - SHOCKING http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/lists/mostrecent.htm#
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- ▶ DEFORESTATION OUT OF CONTROL - THE ON GOING SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION http://sco.lt/60eudl
-▶ STOP BURNING RAIN FORESTS FOR PALM OIL: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN http://sco.lt/6S9nGb
WATCH AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY "REMEMBERING "GREEN" - AN ORANGUTAN'S JOURNEY Winner of Best Short Documentary - Don't Miss This
WATCH TEN NEWS AUSTRALIA INVESTIGATION: PALM OIL ECOCIDE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1561454232/palm-oil-ecocide-ten-news-australia-video
- ▶ FAST-TRACKING OUR OWN EXTINCTION: THE DEFORESTATION HOLOCAUST AND PALM OIL ECOCIDE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1510545458/fast-tracking-our-own-extinction-the-deforestation-holocaust-and-palm-oil-ecocide
Asia Sentinel, May 03, 2012 - ▶ NEW STUDY SLAMS INDONESIA'S FOREST PROTECTION - ONLY 4% OF FORESTS WILL REMAIN INTACT http://www.asiasentinel.com/econ-business/new-study-slams-indonesias-forest-protection/
Mongabay, September 26, 2013
================= OCEANS =================
- ▶ THE LOSS OF OCEAN SPECIES IS STAGGERING http://sco.lt/599jsH
- ▶ POLAR BEARS 'MAY NEED TO BE FED BY HUMANS TO SURVIVE' http://sco.lt/7JCUk5
IUCN February 19, 2012
▶ HEALTH OF OCEANS 'DECLINING FAST' - MASS EXTINCTION MAY BE INEVITABLE http://sco.lt/8ZyX6v
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▶ ATLANTIC STURGEON IN DELAWARE RIVER WATERSHED NEARING EXTINCTION http://sco.lt/6dUwGf
-▶ ENDING THE WAR ON USA WILDLIFE http://sco.lt/8FVdXF
Summit Voice, February 16, 2014 ▶ GOP TWISTING FACTS, DISTORTING SCIENCE IN EFFORTS TO DISMANTLE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT http://summitcountyvoice.com/2014/02/17/gop-attack-on-endangered-species-fueled-by-tea-party-fantasies/
eNews Park Forest, April 06, 2014 -▶ U.S. HOUSE MAJORITY AIMS TO DISMANTLE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT WITH PIECEMEAL APPROACH. Proposals would undermine protections for wildlife on the brink of extinction http://enewspf.com/opinion/commentary/51812-house-majority-aims-to-dismantle-endangered-species-act-with-piecemeal-approach.html
Summit Voice, March 31, 2013
All About Wildlife, January 18, 2011
Smart Planet, April 16, 2014
Mongabay, February 10, 2014 ▶ ON EDGE OF EXTINCTION, COULD DRONES AND TECHNOLOGY SAVE THE LITTLE DODO? http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0210-hance-little-dodo-drones.html
▶ PERSISTENCE OR EXTINCTION: THROUGH A MATHEMATICAL LENS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3444812951/persistence-or-extinction-through-a-mathematical-lens
VIDEO REPORT
-▶ HOW BIODIVERSITY COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE http://sco.lt/90Sr2n
VIDEO: EARTHRACE REVEALS HORROR OF THE ANNUAL 90,000 NAMBIAN BABY SEAL SLAUGHTER http://sco.lt/5fjbcn
===================== EXCELLENT READS =====================
The Ecologist -▶ THICH NHAT HANH: MAYBE IN 100 YEARS THERE WILL BE NO MORE HUMANS ON THE PLANET http://sco.lt/7fkZ3B
Guardian Sustainable Business ▶THICH NHAT HANH: BEYOND ENVIRONMENT: FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH MOTHER EARTH http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/zen-thich-naht-hanh-buddhidm-business-values?intcmp=239
Scientific American, May 25, 2014
"IF WE DESTROY CREATION, CREATION WILL DESTROY US" Pope Francis Addressing Climate Change Climate Progress, May 21, 2014
Earth In Transition, June 12, 2014 http://www.earthintransition.org/2014/06/authentic-spirituality-in-the-coming-storm/
The Nature of Business, November 26, 2013 -▶ WHERE'S THE VISION FOR THE FUTURE? ... WHAT'S THE NEW PARADIGM? http://thenatureofbusiness.org/2013/11/26/wheres-the-vision-for-the-future-whats-the-new-paradigm/
Forbes, December 30, 2013 -▶ THE BIODIVERSITY BUBBLE: HOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW COULD GET US KILLED http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2013/12/30/the-biodiversity-bubble-how-what-we-dont-know-could-get-us-killed/
-▶ PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL REGULATION OVERHAUL NEEDED TO PROTECT WILDLIFE ECOSYSTEMS AND FOOD CHAIN http://sco.lt/5oplFx
Excellent Read: Bee Strawbridge Blog June 5, 2013 -▶ SPEAKING UP FOR WILDLIFE
-▶ MASS WOLF KILLINGS ARE BASED ON THE MOST CYNICAL OF PREMISES http://sco.lt/5TCsBl
-▶ CANNED TROPHY HUNTING - ANIMALS BRED IN CAPTIVITY FOR TROPHY HUNTING http://sco.lt/6qdbW5
The Nature Of Business ▶ 'SUPERORGANISATIONS' - LEARNING FROM NATURE'S NETWORKS http://thenatureofbusiness.org/2012/08/15/superorganisations-learning-from-natures-networks/
Climate and Capitalism, December 21, 2013
-▶ RESTORING THE EARTH - THE BONN CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/4p7B3Z
-▶ IT'S TIME THE PESTICIDE/CHEMICAL COMPANIES OWNED UP: COMMON PESTICIDES COULD CAUSE AN ECOLOGICAL CASTROPHE http://sco.lt/4vbYjx
--- WATCH --- POLLINATION: A LOVE STORY THAT FEEDS THE EARTH
THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH"
-▶ THE WORLD IS SITTING ON A CONSUMPTION TIME BOMB http://sco.lt/92ZVcP
-▶ WHY CHOOSING NATURE WILL ONLY ADVANCE HUMAN SOCIETIES http://sco.lt/8BIJP7
ENOUGHNESS: WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY
Psych.Org, December 09, 2013
--- WORTHY WATCH-- AWHAR RESTORING THE MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHES IN IRAQ FULL EPISODE
-▶ BUILDING THE NEW ARCHITECTURE OF THE ECOLOGICAL COMMONS http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/building-the-new-architecture-of-the-ecological-commons/
August 25, 2013 Inter Press Service -▶ RIO DE JANIERO: NEW INITIATIVE AIMS TO INTEGRATE AGRICULTURE AND CONSERVATION http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/new-initiative-aims-to-integrate-agriculture-and-conservation/
WATCH Video Documentary by David Suzuki A SILENT FOREST THE GROWING THREAT OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES" Full Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w437uQf_A7c
-▶ MONSANTO GMO TREES COULD DEVASTATE FOREST ECO SYSTEMS LEAVING BIOLOGICAL DESERTS http://sco.lt/51ekyH
▶ WHAT'S WRONG WITH MAN-MADE TREE PLANTATIONS? http://sco.lt/4iLDeL
-▶ LIVING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: TOWARD A NEW GLOBAL ETHOS http://sco.lt/8vsZP7
▶ TERRACIDE: THE BIGGEST CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE IN HISTORY - DESTROYING THE PLANET FOR RECORD PROFITS http://sco.lt/95LXpR
-▶ LAND GRABS: HOW FOREIGN 'INVESTMENTS' ARE REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, LAND AND WATER RIGHTS ACROSS THE GLOBE http://sco.lt/96H2yv
-▶ THE CURSE OF PETROLEUM, CHEMICAL-BASED FERTILIZERS http://sco.lt/4iAdaz
Takepart, May 16, 2014 - ▶ TO SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES, EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY (THIS MEANS YOU) . One-fourth of Earth’s species could be driven to extinction by 2050, just as a result of climate change. That’s not even counting the ones threatened by habitat eradication, toxins, and other plagues we have wrought on those with whom we share our home.
pdjmoo's insight:
AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD The Natural Eye Project http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/
WATCH "HOME" Yann Arthus-Bertrand An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet Solutions For A Sustainable Planet http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/
@pdjmoo CURATING THE FOLLOWING SCOOPIT's
▶ CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet ▶ BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life ▶ OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us ▶ OUR FOOD, OUR HEALTH http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides
Scoop.it!
(02/28/2013) MongaBay People often associate Brazil with its forests. It’s no wonder given that nearly 60% of the country’s territory is covered by forest and it holds about one-third of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests. You might assume that a country like this would care about educating people to sustainably manage this precious heritage. Well, you’d be wrong! ... http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0227-swf2013-margit.html
MORE ON DEFORESTATION: http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=deforestation#post_3997796151
Feb 27, 2013 MongaBay
Feb 28, 2013 - Mongabay
Feb 28, 2013 - MongaBay
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Feb 28, 2013 - Guardian Environment Wild bees and other insects twice as effective as honeybees in producing seeds and fruit on crops. The decline of wild bees and other pollinators may be an even more alarming threat to crop yields than the loss of honeybees, a worldwide study suggests, revealing the irreplaceable contribution of wild insects to global food production. ...trucking in managed honeybee hives did not replace wild pollination when that was lost, but only added to the pollination that took place.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/28/wild-bees-pollinators-crop-yields
SAVE THE BERRIES, SAVE THE BEES, SAVE ME ... MUCH MORE ON THE TRAGEDY OF THE DISAPPEARING BEES AND POLLINATORS http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=BEES
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December 5, 2012 - Our Amazing Planet -▶ BIG TREES IN DECLINE These elders of the forest do many things that smaller, younger trees cannot; for example, providing homes for many types of animals, providing space for other plants to grow in tropical rainforests and producing large amounts of seeds that serve as food for other animals and replenish tree populations, according to the study, published today (Dec. 6) in the journal Science. Old trees also store an enormous amount of carbon and... http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3856-big-trees-in-decline.html GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF WORLD'S OLDEST TREES AT NIGHT http://onemorepost.com/oldest-trees/ Mongabay, September 26, 2013 SIFY News, January 07, 2011 -▶ UN: WORLD LOSING BIODIVERSITY THOUSAND TIME FASTER THAN NATURAL EXTINCTION 'We are losing our biodiversity thousand times faster than natural extinction, leading to widespread and irreversible loss of natural ecosystem. The stakes could not be higher, what we do, or fail to do, over the next 10 years will influence the well-being and prosperity of billions of people for generation to come,' December 14, 2012 Mongabay -▶ WORLD'S MIGHTY AMAZON GIANTS DISAPPEARING AT ALARMING RATE: found in a genetic study published in the December 2012 edition of Ecology and Evolution.... http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1214-amazon-tree-age.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Mongabay, August 26, 2014 Science Daily: -▶ WORLD'S BIG TREES ARE DYING: ALARMING INCREASE IN DEATH RATES AMONG TREES http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121206162519.htm Mongabay, August 07, 2014 -▶ STUDY: WORLD'S MIGHTY GIANTS DYING OFF AT ALARMING RATE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3690136289/study-world-s-mighty-giants-dying-off-at-alarming-rate Mongabay, January 27, 2015 GMO FORESTS DEVASTATE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS CREATING BIOLOGICAL DESERTS REDD-Monitor, March 11, 2015 -▶ TREE HEALTH LINKED WITH HUMAN HEALTH - EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3995362264/tree-health-linked-with-human-health-our-interconnected-lives -- WATCH -- "MOTHER TREE" HOW DO TREES COMMUNICATE? http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/2827188209/mother-tree-video-how-do-trees-communicate Mongabay, May 08, 2014 VIDEO Discovery News -▶ DO FEWER TREES MEAN MORE DEATH? http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/do-fewer-trees-mean-more-death-130118.htm - ▶ BIODIVERSITY IS VITAL TO MAINTAINING ECOSYSTEM AND HUMAN HEALTH http://sco.lt/5gy5Q1 ▶ FORESTS AND THE HEALTH OF THE PLANET http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1610875320/forests-and-the-health-of-the-planet The Guardian The Conversation, May 26, 2013 IN PICTURES Sad pics of loggers in 1915 cutting down the giant California Redwoods, destroying all life within them. These trees were over a 1,000 years old and have a life span of between 1,200 and 1,800 years http://ow.ly/BFsr8 August 23, 2013 Care2Causes RT News, August 18, 2014 “The Mahan coal mine is not only placing the climate at risk, but will also destroy the livelihoods of thousands of people who depend on the Mahan forest for survival,” said Priya Pillai from the NGO. http://www.rtcc.org/2014/08/18/tiny-indian-village-makes-final-stand-against-coal-giants/ WATCH: TOUR CANADA'S BOREAL FOREST THE LARGEST INTACT FOREST ECOSYSTEM ON THE PLANET Forest.Org Dec.6. 2012: -▶ END TO GREEN-WASH OF CANADIAN OLD-GROWTH LOGGING - Thanks to GreenPeace http://forests.org/blog/2012/12/release-victory-as-ecological.asp Mongabay, January 26, 2012 -▶ BIG TREES, LIKE THE OLD-GROWTH FORESTS THEY INHABIT, ARE DECLINING GLOBALLY http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0126-big_trees.html Mongabay: -▶ GLOBAL DECLINE OF BIG TREES IN OLD-GROWTH FORESTS WORRYING, argue scientists http://news.mongabay.com/2012/1206-big-old-trees.html
Pew Environment Trust -▶ A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE USA OLD-GROWTH TREASURES http://www.pewenvironment.org/news-room/other-resources/a-rare-opportunity-to-save-old-growth-treasures-85899434591 -▶ WHY ARE OLD TREES DISAPPEARING? http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1305830--why-are-old-trees-disappearing -▶ OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD: THE WORLDWIDE VULNERABILITY OF FORESTS http://forhumanliberation.blogspot.com/2012/11/960-worldwide-vulnerability-of-forests.html SLIDE SHOW Scientific American, March 11, 2014 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-trees-sprout-new-life May 29, 2013 Forest News
-▶ HALF OF EUROPE'S RENEWABLE ENERGY ' COMES FROM WOOD' http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3617148159/half-of-europe-s-renewable-energy-comes-from-wood CLOUD FORESTS FADING IN THE MIST THEIR TREASURE LITTLE KNOWN -▶ A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE OLD-GROWTH TREASURES http://sco.lt/6wDvM1 ▶ UN BIODIVERSITY REPORT CALLS FOR GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT DESTRUCTION OF NATURE http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/21/un-biodiversity-economic-report NO TO BIODIVERSITY OFFSETTING Conserving Our Natural World is Becoming Dependent On Its Destruction http://sco.lt/9EcFvt - ▶ NATURAL MIXED FORESTS MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN MEGA INDUSTRIAL MONOCULTURES http://sco.lt/8p51lZ -▶ WHAT'S WRONG WITH MAN-MADE TREE PLANTATIONS? http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/2770994964/what-s-wrong-with-tree-plantations WATCH Video Documentary by David Suzuki A SILENT FOREST THE GROWING THREAT OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES" Full Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w437uQf_A7c - ▶ HOW SMART ARE PLANTS? THE INCREDIBLE PLANT "BRAIN" COMMUNICATION
- ▶ THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SOIL UNDER OUR FEET: SOIL AS A LIFELINE http://sco.lt/4nJvdp UNPRECEDENTED STUDY: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE DISAPPEAR WITH ECOSYSTEM AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS FINANCIALIZING NATURE COULD BANKRUPT US ALL Old Economics or Sustaining Policy? -▶ STOP BURNING RAIN FORESTS FOR PALM OIL Scientific American http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3644472714/stop-burning-rain-forests-for-palm-oil-scientific-american DEFORESTATION IS DESERTIFICATION A DEADLY GAME FOR ALL LIFE - GLOBAL ECOCIDE FEATURED VIDEO Mongabay ENOUGHNESS: WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY
Psych.Org, December 09, 2013 ▶ MEGA MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS DESTROYING LOCAL COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEMS http://sco.lt/8nJQf3 KEEPING NATURE IN OUR FUTURE: HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS ESSENTIAL FOR ECONOMIC AND PLANETARY SURVIVAL ONE SHORT VIDEO WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PALM OIL DEFORESTATION http://sco.lt/5moIAT - ▶ “SUSTAINABLE" PALM OIL SHOULD NOT DRIVE DEFORESTATION http://sco.lt/7N5vU1 ===============================
AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD The Natural Eye Project http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/an-urgent-memo-to-the-world/
THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE?
WATCH "HOME" Yann Arthus-Bertrand An Exquisite Dedication To the Stewards of Our Planet Solutions For A Sustainable Planet http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/home-an-exquisite-story-of-our-world/
pdjmoo's insight:
YOU ARE INVITED TO FOLLOW MY NEWS AGGREGATES: ▶ CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL http://www.scoop.it/t/changingplanet ▶ CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health ▶ BIODIVERSITY IS LIFE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life ▶ OUR OCEANS NEED US http://www.scoop.it/t/our-oceans-need-us ▶ OUR FOOD, OUR HEALTH http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides
Scoop.it!
"No Where To Go" Image Via: The Habitat Advocate: http://www.habitatadvocate.com.au/?p=13652
DO YOUR COOKIES AND SHAMPOO CONTAIN "DEFORESTATION"?
Mongabay, August 16, 2014
▶ "MORE THAN 100 ORANGUTANS BURNED ALIVE IN DELIBERATELY SET INDONESIAN FOREST BY PALM OIL CORPORATIONS" http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/1319#.T3UO_qEtujk.twitter
▶ RARE SUMATRAN ORANGUTANS DYING AS FIRES RAGE IN INDONESIAN SWAMP FOREST - The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/28/sumatran-orangutans-dying-indonesia-forest-fire
Mongabay, May 25, 2014
IN PICTURES ONCE A RAINFOREST Redd Monitor, April 08, 2013
June 30, 2013 The Ecologist
---- WATCH ---- July 4, 2013 theEcologistTV HOW PALM OIL IS KILLING INDONESIAN ELEPHANTS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwI-N5KSUjQ&feature=youtu.be
SPECIAL REPORT June 30, 2013 The Ecologist SUMATRAN ELEPHANTS SUFFER IN RUSH FOR 'LIQUID IVORY' http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1984027/palm_oils_forgotten_victims_sumatran_elephants_suffer_in_rush_for_liquid_ivory.html
AUDIO SLIDESHOW
THE RAPE AND PILLAGE OF SUMATRAN TIGERS' LAST STRONGHOLD http://sco.lt/62jf3h
WATCH 'WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PALM OIL IN ONE SHORT VIDEO
WATCH TEN NEWS AUSTRALIA INVESTIGATION: PALM OIL ECOCIDE - http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1561454232/palm-oil-ecocide-ten-news-australia-video
THE CORPORATE PALM OIL HOLOCAUST: ORANGUTAN CLINGS TO LAST REMAINING TREE AS ENTIRE FOREST BULLDOZED
March 14, 2013 The Ecologist ▶ PALM OIL: THE HIDDEN INGREDIENT CAUSING AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/home/1273788/palm_oil_the_hidden_ingredient_causing_an_ecological_disaster.html
▶ ARE YOU EATING DIRTY OIL? THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE PALM OIL INDUSTRY http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/are-you-eating-dirty-oil-the-environmental-impacts-of-the-palm-oil-industry/
New York Times, October 11, 2013
Mongabay, February 21, 2014
Der Spiegel, May 02, 2014
Mongabay, November 7, 2013
IN PICTURES RAINFORESTS TO PALM OIL http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0702-rainforests-to-palm-oil-photos.html
▶ TAKE ACTION - BEFORE THE LAST FOREST, THE LAST ORANGUTAN, THE LAST SIGN OF LIFE IS GONE ....RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK http://ow.ly/a8Mim http://understory.ran.org/?s=Orangutans+Indonesia http://ran.org
▶ INDONESIA'S MOCKERY OF PLEDGE TO REDUCE DEFORESTATION AND CARBON EMISSIONS BY ENABLING PLANTATION COMPANIES TO DESTROY CARBON-RICH PEATLANDS WITH IMMUNITY, A RECENT REPORT REVEALS http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/orangutan-palm-oil.html#cr
▶ DESPITE MORATORIUM, INDONESIA FAILING TO TAKE ACTION ON ILLEGAL PALM OIL PLANTATIONS
June 20, 2013 Common Dreams
July 28, 2012: ▶ CARGILL PALM OIL FROM ILLEGALLY CLEARED RAINFOREST, SLAUGHTERING ORANGUTAN AND ALL LIFE WITHIN THEM http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/2289970611/cargill-palm-oil-from-illegally-cleared-rainforest-slaughtering-orangutan
May 5, 2013 Mongabay When Graft and Corruption is the Rule of Law
▶ May 3, 2013 Mongabay GREATER MEKONG REGION HAS LOST A THIRD OF ITS FORESTS IN 30 YEARS, MAY LOSE ANOTHER THIRD BY 2030 (Region of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam) http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0502-mekong-forests.html
A Picture Says A Thousand Words
September 3, 2013 Mongbay ▶ PALM OIL NOW BIGGEST CAUSE OF DEFORESTATION IN INDONESIA http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0903-rspo-vs-greenpeace-palm-oil-deforestation.html?n3ws1ttr
The Orangutan Protection Foundation: ▶ The current situation as far as orangutans and rainforests are concerned is critical. The ever-increasing demand in developed countries for palm oil and timber is decimating the rainforests at a terrifying rate, and consequently its orangutan population and all life within the forests as well. If nothing is done to halt this devastation, the orangutan could be facing extinction in the wild within the next 10 years. http://www.opf.org/
100 Reporters, November 21, 2013
WATCH: "SAVING LEUSER - TRIPA" A Short film by Carlos Quiles. The video is a short story of the long term documentary Saving Leuser. We need the maximum support not just for Tripa but to save the Leuser ecosystem, the only place in the world that hosts five endangered species as tigers, rhinos, orangutans, elephants and bears.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICBxZ4zg8y8
Guardian Environment, March 24, 2014 ▶ AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES ACCUSED OF JEOPARDIZING SUMATRAN PRIZED LEUSER ECOSYSTEM INDONESIAN THREATENING WILDLIFE EXTINCTION http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/24/australian-companies-accused-of-hampering-conservation-in-indonesia
▶ 50 ASTOUNDING FACTS ABOUT RAINFORESTS (INFOGRAPHIC) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/12/rainforest-facts_n_3914973.html
World Watch Institute
Greenpeace, October 22, 2013
Rainforest Alliance
January 22, 2013 International Business Times ▶ RED PALM OIL TOUTED BY DR. OZ AS A DIET MIRACLE COULD LEAD TO 'WAR ON ORANGUTANS' http://www.ibtimes.com/red-palm-oil-touted-dr-oz-diet-miracle-could-lead-war-orangutans-1032416
A Picture Says A Thousand Words Google Images http://ow.ly/mp0G1
VIDEO
Feb 21, 2013 MongaBay
June 23, 2013 Seed Daily:
Feb 21, 2013 - MongaBay
May 29, 2013 Inter Press Service: ▶ LAND GRABS AND THE BITTER TASTE OF LIBERIA'S PALM OIL PLANTATIONS: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/the-bitter-taste-of-liberias-palm-oil-plantations/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
July 4, 2013 ReddMonitor
▶ OIL PALM PLANTATIONs REPLACING FORESTS IN KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/10/10/oil-palm-plantations-replacing-forests-in-kalimantan/
Jan 9, 2013: Redd-Monitor.org ▶ IN PICTURES INDONESIA'S BETRAYAL: CENTRAL KALIMANTAN'S PALM OIL CATASTROPHE - In May 2010, Indonesia’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, signed a Letter of Intent with Norway for a US$1 billion REDD deal. In December 2010, Yudhoyono announced that Central Kalimantan would be a pilot province under the deal. This means that Central Kalimantan’s remaining forests are protected, right? Wrong. http://www.redd-monitor.org/2013/01/09/guest-post-central-kalimantans-oil-palm-catastrophe-in-pictures/
WATCH VIDEO ANIMATION "THE STORY OF REDD" A REAL SOLUTION OR ACCELERATOR FOR DEFORESTATION? |http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/2973775544/the-story-of-redd-a-real-solution-or-accelerator-for-deforestation-animation
June 25, 2013 Mongabay
▶ April 23, 2013 - Mongabay
▶ CHILD LABOR CAUGHT ON FILM AT PALM OIL PLANTATION IN INDONESIAN BORNEO http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0209-dparker-child-labor-palm-oil.html#0pMOTU4EfiwPBwEO.02
Feb 28, 2013 - MongaBay
▶ MASSIVE PALM OIL PLANTATION WILL "CUT THE HEART OUT" OF CAMEROON'S RAINFOREST, DESTROY INDIGENOUS AND WILDLIFE HABITAT http://sco.lt/8lmMBF
▶ INDONESIA REMAINS EPICENTER FOR ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE IN REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS http://sco.lt/8NRZlR
▶ SURGING DEMAND FOR VEGETABLE OIL DRIVES RAINFOREST DEFORESTATION http://sco.lt/6yY5Vh
WATCH AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY (47:46) "REMEMBERING "GREEN" - AN ORANGUTAN'S JOURNEY Winner of Best Short Documentary - Don't Miss This
Scientific American ▶ STOP BURNING RAINFORESTS FOR PALM OIL http://sco.lt/6S9nGb
THE PALM OIL HOLOCAUST - AND WE STAND BY AND ALLOW CORPORATE ECOCIDE? http://sco.lt/7KU641
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Feb 1, 2013 - Planet Ark ▶ CROP-BASED BIOFUELS IS UNSUSTAINABLE. GROWING PALM OIL COULD SPEED UP CLIMATE CHANGE , WHILE DEVASTATING BIODIVERSITY AND NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS http://planetark.org/wen/67793
Malaysia Feb. 4, 2013 The Sun Daily ▶ BIOFUELS: BIODIESEL BOOST FOR PALM OIL INDUSTRY - THE CORPORATE RACE FOR PROFITS, DESTROYING FORESTS AND ECOSYSTEMS AS THEY GO http://www.thesundaily.my/news/605492
April 27, 2012 Biofuels ▶ EPA SAYS PALM-BASED BIOFUELS SHOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR INCLUSION IN RENEWABLE FUELS STANDARD http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1679460426/epa-says-palm-based-biofuels-should-not-qualify-for-inclusion-in-renewable-fuels-standard
▶ FOOD OR FUEL? RESEARCH SUGGESTS BIOFUELS WILL COST THE EARTH http://sco.lt/8ezJ2X
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ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH
National Geographic: Eye in the Sky
April 17, 2014 TreeHugger ▶ DEFORESTATION PHOTO: CONFUSED KOALA DISCOVERS HIS FOREST HOME HAS BEEN CUT DOWN (PHOTOS) http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/confused-koala-discovers-his-home-has-been-cut-down.html
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WATCH
Diary - YouTube VIDEO ▶ BBC EARTH TV CLIPS FROM DEFORESTATION IN BORNEO Orangutan Diary - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRaN5OcQZs ▶ IMPORTANT FILM TO WATCH: *** "GREEN" Running Time 47:46 DEATH OF THE FORESTS IN INDONESIA - Award Winning Silent Documentary by Patrick Rouxel - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRPmqNPHALs&feature=related ▶ ELEPHANTS POISONED FOR PALM OIL! | Change.org http://www.change.org/petitions/elephants-poisoned-for-palm-oil ▶ BBC EARTH TV: ORANGUTAN DIARY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTdVR-G1B5Q
MORE ARTICLES
1. "MORE THAN 100 ORANGUTANS BURNED ALIVE IN DELIBERATELY SET INDONESIAN FOREST BY PALM OIL CORPORATIONS" http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/1319#.T3UO_qEtujk.twitter 2. RARE SUMATRAN ORANGUTANS DYING AS FIRES RAGE IN INDONESIAN SWAMP FOREST - The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/28/sumatran-orangutans-dying-indonesia-forest-fire 3. JAKARTA, Indonesia—"ORANGUTANS IN INDONESIAN FOREST MAY DIE OUT IN WEEKS - The Jakarta Globe http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/orangutans-in-indonesian-forest-may-die-out-in-weeks/507711 Fires raging in an Indonesian swamp forest may have killed a third of the rare Sumatran orangutans. About 200 still live there. Only 12,267 hectares (30,311 acres) of Tripa’s original 60,000 hectares (148,260 acres) of forest remain.The rest has been broken up and degraded as palm oil companies drain the swamp and terminate the life of the forests. 4. GREEN GROUPS MAY CALL FOR BOYCOTT OF INDONESIAN PALM OIL OVER FOREST DESTRUCTION IN SUMATRA http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0411-socp_tripa_battle_call.html 5. GOVERNOR OF ACEH WHO SIGNED PALM OIL PERMIT: PLNTATION IN TRIPA IS "MORALLY WRONG" http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0405-hance_tripa_governor.html 6. SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: CARGILL AND TRIP FOREST CONTROVERSY Care2 Causes http://www.care2.com/causes/setting-the-record-straight-cargill-and-tripa-forest-controversy.html 7. TRACING THE MONEY, AND THE MASTERMINDS, OF ILLEGAL LOGGING - NYTimes.com http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/following-the-money-and-the-mafias-behind-illegal-logging/
VIDEOS: ▶ WATCH THESE POWERFUL AND INFORMATIVE VIDEOS:
1. "DEFORESTATION" - What is the real impact? - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8nXltMZYtM&feature=related 2. "GREEN": Death of the Forests - 47:46 - Documentary by Patrick Rouxel - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRPmqNPHALs&feature=related GREEN FORESTS OF DEATH: Witness - Al Jazeera English http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/witness/2012/03/201231483446653151.html 3. "THE FALLING FORESTS"- All For Palm Oil http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0326-muaratae-video.html 4. "ORANGUTAN GENOCIDE"- The Palm Oil Crisis - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRMJBvL1Kog&feature=related 5. "RAPID DEFORESTATION" - Papua New Guinea - An Australian Broadcasting Co. Investigation YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aJZB2jNHRY&feature=related 6. SAVING LEUSERS. Tripa - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICBxZ4zg8y8 7. VIDEO: SHOOTING ORANGUTANS, Part Two - Orangutan Diary - BBC - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOSzhtBVms&feature=youtube_gdata 8. VIDEO NURSED BACK TO HEALTH, PART ONE - ORANGUTAN DIARY - BBC VIDEO http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/2443696313/nursed-back-to-health-orangutan-diary-bbc-video-palm-oil-ecocide
Feb 28, 2013 - Mongabay
▶ READ MORE IN MY BLOG: "THE PALM OIL ECOCIDE" http://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/biodiversity-is-life/
▶ FOR MORE ON FOOD CRISIS AND THE GLOBAL LAND GRAB http://www.farmlandgrab.org
▶ AND STOP BY THE MALUA RAINFOREST PROJECT : www.protectmalua.com / maluabank.com - SO MANY GOOD PEOPLE WORKING 24/7 TO TURN THIS HOLOCAUST OF NATURE AND OUR WILDLIFE AROUND
pdjmoo's insight:
WHERE IS REDD? .- The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
The blatant and criminal disregard for international agreements and treaties by the PALM OIL INDUSTRY http://rspo.org is creating ECOCIDE throughout the world's rainforests, destroying all life within the forests, disposing native peoples from their lands and turning forest people into slaves. The "Green-Washing" is deplorable and reprehensible. Glaringly obvious are their lies-for-profit public relations campaigns. Their latest pr spin "Sustainable palm is good for environment, and business revenues - World Wildlife Fund report" http://ow.ly/a6X0U and raises serious questions about the integrity of the WORLD WILDLIFE FUND SEE: "The Pact with the Panda Part 1" - YouTube http://ow.ly/a6XFT WWF timber scheme allows illegal logging, forest destruction and fails to prevent human rights abuses | Global Witness http://ow.ly/drlAB - This Corporate rush to destroy our ecosystems for logging, agriculture and biofuels, palmoil may boost their quarterly bottom lines but will leave us bereft of the natural forests and all life within them. I cannot imagine how many thousands of interdependent species are suffering and dying by the hand of their bulldozers. Some will be lost forever
Mick Owen's curator insight,
March 25, 2016 4:37 PM
WHERE IS REDD? .- The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries
The blatant and criminal disregard for international agreements and treaties by the PALM OIL INDUSTRY http://rspo.org is creating ECOCIDE throughout the world's rainforests, destroying all life within the forests, disposing native peoples from their lands and turning forest people into slaves. The "Green-Washing" is deplorable and reprehensible. Glaringly obvious are their lies-for-profit public relations campaigns. Their latest pr spin "Sustainable palm is good for environment, and business revenues - World Wildlife Fund report" http://ow.ly/a6X0U and raises serious questions about the integrity of the WORLD WILDLIFE FUND SEE: "The Pact with the Panda Part 1" - YouTube http://ow.ly/a6XFT WWF timber scheme allows illegal logging, forest destruction and fails to prevent human rights abuses | Global Witness http://ow.ly/drlAB - This Corporate rush to destroy our ecosystems for logging, agriculture and biofuels, palmoil may boost their quarterly bottom lines but will leave us bereft of the natural forests and all life within them. I cannot imagine how many thousands of interdependent species are suffering and dying by the hand of their bulldozers. Some will be lost forever
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Even after 100 years have passed a restored wetland may not reach the state of its former glory.
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Scientists meeting at the University of Copenhagen have warned that biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world, describing the loss of species as the 6th mass extinction event on the earth. The world is losing species at a rate that is 100 to 1000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, with the challenges of conserving the world's species larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change.
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A Healthy Environment - A Healthy Humanity
If you've recently spent some time in a "greenspace"--an area of undeveloped landscape--you may have found that it improved your mood, reduced feelings of stress, and left you feeling more relaxed.
Lynn Johnson Hasselberger's comment,
January 24, 2012 5:35 PM
So important! Great article ... rescooped it.
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Biodiversity preservation can provide critical services to the poor. The sixth great mass extinction is underway, and because of the threat it poses to global biodiversity, it is as great a threat to human well-being as climate change. The causes of this extinction event are quite clear: humans are out-competing all other species for scarce resources on a finite planet.
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BIOMIMICRY: Bionic Handling; Better Spin cycle; Chemical-Free De-Icing; Extreme Shock Absorber; Paint Without Pigments; Traffic Decongestant; efficient ceiling fans; fog harvesting;
IN NATURE, MYRIAD LESSONS FOR EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP, Jan 28, 2013 | Sustainable Brands http://www.scoop.it/t/environmental-and-human-health/p/3995631889/in-nature-myriad-lessons-for-effective-sustainability-leadership-sustainable-brands
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