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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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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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Jan 13, 2012 Deutsche Welle Wolves were hunted nearly to extinction in Germany in the 20th century. But over the past decade, they have been making a slow return. Farmers say the wolves are pests and should be hunted down.... http://www.dw.de/german-farmers-demand-the-right-to-hunt-wolves/a-16568810?maca=en-rss-en-environment-4553-rdf
Lobos of the SouthWest, December 23, 2013
MORE WOLF NEWS: NORWAY'S PLAN TO EXTERMINATE WOLVES EXPLODES MYTH OF ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3418309792/norway-s-plan-to-exterminate-wolves-explodes-myth-of-environmental-virtue
Feb 22, 2013 MINNESOTA MULLS WOLF HUNTING MORATORIUM http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Minnesota_mulls_wolf_hunting_moratorium_999.html
WHY WE NEED WOLVES: http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/2838411010/why-the-world-needs-wolves
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MASS WOLF KILLINGS ARE BASED ON THE MOST CYNICAL OF PREMISES
February 2014 RETURN OF GRAY WOLVES TO SOUTHWEST SLOW GOING DUE TO MAN'S MISMANAGEMENT http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/3efa8f3f4c6a4a189e18d8a02bc19a74/NM--Endangered-Wolves
WATCH: "THE LAST WILD WOLVES" Part 1 7:17 http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/994375707/the-last-wild-wolves-part-1
PETITION SITE: TELL US CONGRESS: PROTECT WOLVES FROM SLAUGHTER IN THE LOWER 48 STATES http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/840/121/151/
-▶ ENDING THE WAR ON USA WILDLIFE http://sco.lt/8FVdXF
-▶ THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US - CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? http://sco.lt/95E5aL
AND EVEN MORE ON KILLING WOLVES http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=wolves
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Jan 30, 2013 Climate change has already pushed the nation's wildlife into crisis, according to a report released Wednesday from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and further catastrophe, including widespread extinction, can only be curbed with swift action to curb the carbon pollution that has the planet sweltering. Entitled Wildlife in a Warming World: Confronting the Climate Crisis, the report looks at 8 regions across the U.S. where "the underlying climatic conditions to which species have been accustomed for thousands of years," the report explains, have been upturned by human-caused climate change. “Some of America’s most iconic species—from moose to sandhill cranes to sea turtles – are seeing their homes transformed by rapid climate change,” stated Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate scientist at the National Wildlife Federation.
WILDLIFE UNDER PRESSURE IN A WARMING WORLD - - National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/Media-Center/Reports/Archive/2013/01-30-13-Wildlife-In-A-Warming-World.aspx
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October 21, 2013 2:58 PM
As climates change, it impacts the biotic and abiotic landscape.
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“If we never look at the consequences of our behavior, we can always maintain the illusion of our competence. ." Dietrich Dörner
Via: AL JAZEERA "WITNESS" Expose Green is an unusual film. It contains no narrative or dialogue and yet helps us understand complex commodity chains. It is both a hard hitting portrayal of the causes and consequences of deforestation in Indonesia, and a film which captures the tranquillity and calm of wild nature. The film takes viewers on an emotional journey, following Green's final days and revealing the devastating impact of fulfilling unbridled consumerism thru logging, land-clearing and palm oil plantations. Stunning images of the natural world and its biodiversity are counter-pointed with scenes of their destruction and the resulting loss of all life in the forest. NOTE: This film contains upsetting scenes including cruelty to animals. OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE: http://www.greenthefilm.com/ Producers BLOG for Educational Purposes: http://studyinggreen.wordpress.com/
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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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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
IN PHOTOS
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
===================== CLIMATE CHANGE =====================
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.
====================== EXTINCTIONS ======================
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 -
========================= THE MASSIVE DECLINES ALREADY IN MOTION =========================
-▶ 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#
========================= DEFORESTATION =========================
- ▶ 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
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Feb 22, 2013 - Guardian Environment The endangered red squirrel has found a new ally in its fight for survival against the invading grey squirrel, research has established. Reds are prospering and greys disappearing in areas where there is a strong population of pine martens, which were almost extinct 50 years ago... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/22/red-squirrel-pine-marten-survival
pdjmoo's insight:
Nature has her own way of balancing out herself...in it's own timeframe...until man tries to impose his idea of how it should be for his advantage.
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Dec. 8, 2012 - Huffington Post Green THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SPECIES EXTINCTION, ORGANIZED CRIME, AND THE SPREAD OF DISEASE: POACHING There is no lack of reasons to join efforts to stop wildlife trafficking. Together, we need to protect the source, break the chain and stop demand. This year alone (2012), we anticipate that 30,000 African elephants will be killed for their ivory. It is estimated that 448 black rhinos were poached in 2012 in South Africa to meet the demand for their horns in Southeast Asia and China. Today, only 3,200 tigers remain in the wild because so many have been killed for their parts. More than 25 million individual sharks will be killed this year for their fins, including many from endangered species.,, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-cristian-samper/the-connection-between-sp_b_2220725.html AN INCREDIBLE WATCH Echo, Africa’s most famous elephant, was the subject of many films and the matriarch of perhaps the most studied wild elephant herd in the world. In May of 2009, she died of natural causes. This film is a look back at this remarkable animal through extraordinary footage and interviews with the researchers that cared for and studied Echo and her family
LEST WE FORGET: Africa's Ivory-Profit Driven Elephant Mass Slaughter Continues - A Family Falls http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3292956185/lest-we-forget-africa-s-ivory-profit-driven-elephant-mass-slaughter-continues-a-family-falls THE DIRTY WAR AGAINST AFRICA'S RHINOS - Extinction Is Forever http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3527088396/the-dirty-war-against-africa-s-rhinos-extinction-is-forever DRONES COULD SOON BE HELPING PROTECT RHINO, TIGERS AND ELEPHANT in Africa and Asia http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3645438876/drones-could-soon-be-helping-protect-rhinos-tigers-and-elephants-in-africa-and-asia
WATCH: "SAVING LEUSER - TRIPA" A Short film by Carlos Quiles - YouTube 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
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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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Mashable, February 20, 2015 WATCH VIDEO (3:15) DW (English), December 02, 2011 GORILLA HABITAT IN RWANDA'S VIRUNGA FORESTS UNDER THREAT Gorilla habitat in Rwanda Rwanda's verdant Virunga forests are home to rare mountain gorillas. Their habitat however is critically endangered. New projects seek to protect the primates and improve life for local communities.,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNnRTKLV29c&feature=youtu.be Treehugger, February 17, 2015 New York Times, November 06, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/movies/virunga-a-searing-documentary-set-in-congo.html?_r=0 Guardian, February 07, 2015 One Green Planet, January 08, 2015 World Wildlife Fund, December 16, 2013 Guardian, October 5, 2013 ================== -▶ SURROUNDED BY DEFORESTATION, CRITICALLY ENDANGERED GORILLAS HANG ON BY A THREAD http://sco.lt/7yO9ZJ ================== VIDEO
WATCH VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK http://www.youtube.com/user/gorillacd The Independent, September 06, 2014 New York Time, November 15, 2014 ▶ VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo OIL DISPUTE TAKES A PAGE FROM CONGO'S BLOODY PAST http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/world/oil-dispute-takes-a-page- WWF, February 14, 2014 Mother Nature Network, November 05, 2014 ▶ 'VIRUNGA' REVEALS PARADISE IN PERIL http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/virunga-reveals-paradise-in-peril
FILM TRAILER The Dodo, September 10, 2014 Quartz, December 06, 2014 from-congos-bloody-past.html?_r=0
=========================== France24, April 17, 2014 Yale Environment 360, January 08, 2013
VIDEO TED TALK =======================
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PRIMATOLOGIST WARNS OF POSSIBLE GREAT APE EXTINCTION WATCH ECOLOGICAL ARMAGEDDON EXTINCTION CRISIS IN 40 YEARS WE HAVE DISAPPEARED HALF OF THE WORLD'S WILD ANIMALS http://sco.lt/8fK5eT ======================= Treehugger, March 4, 2013 -▶ NEARLY 3,000 WILD GREAT APES STOLEN EACH YEAR http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Nearly_3000_wild_great_apes_stolen_each_year_UN_999.html VIDEO Africa Geographic, February 27, 2014 World Widlife Fund - PHOTOS
▶ HUNTING SEED DISPERSING ANIMALS PUSHING CENTRAL AFRICAN FORESTS TOWARD ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE http://sco.lt/6Q8PZp -▶ THE BARBARIC ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE FLOURISHES AND MUST CEASE http://sco.lt/66Lk8n ▶ THE ECONOMICS OF THE ILLEGAL WILDLIFE POACHING TRADE - ONE OF THE MOST LUCRATIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE BLACK MARKETS IN THE WORLD http://sco.lt/4q4CB7 FILM ****REMEMBERING "GREEN" An Award Winning Documentary by Patrick Rouxel on the Indonesian rainforest, deforestation and orangutan extinction "GREEN" has now won top awards from the two most prestigious wildlife film festivals in the world...and more than 30 others... http://greenplanetfilms.org/product_info.php?products_id=682 -▶ HUMANS ARE TURNING THE EARTH INTO A 'LONELY AND VERY DANGEROUS PLANET,' ECOLOGIST WARNS http://sco.lt/4xff17
VIDEO -▶ FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS, INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS, NULLIFYING LAND RIGHTS, CREATING DEPENDENCY AND POVERTY ON A GLOBAL SCALE http://sco.lt/4l725B -▶ FOOD FORESTS CAN MITIGATE RISKS OF "FEAST OR FAMINE" - BIG CORPORATE AG IS NOT THE ANSWER http://sco.lt/5U402L
-▶ DEFORESTATION, MINING RISES AGAIN IN BRAZIL'S AMAZON IMPACTING ECOSYSTEMS, CLIMATE, DEVASTATING INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES http://sco.lt/6831nN ▶ ENOUGHNESS : WESTERN THOUGHT vs INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHY http://sco.lt/6EFbPt 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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