Artefacts unearthed by archaeologists in Georgia's south as part of a recent international expedition have revealed a "new origin" of the ancient Homo erectus outside the African continent.
Humans mostly keep a clear line between our world and the animal kingdom.But animals have a habit of crossing that line — to funny and sometimes dangerous...
It seems that despite a general public outcry, dozens of official complaints, and Judge Thompson's ruling that RCMP tactics and exclusion zones are excessive and illegal, the RCMP answers to no one. And the ultimate tragedy---apart from watching Teal Jones trucks pull out old growth logs as fast as possible---is that RCMP barbarism is directed at peaceful Indigenous and settler protesters trying to help the government keep its promise about protecting the precious little---but precious nonetheless---old growth remaining. Can this really be Canada? What will we tell our kids and grandkids when the forests are gone and the province is burning?
Our future feels increasingly uncertain and hope has become a scarce - but essential - commodity. This isn't easy for any of us.
And yet, people across the world are making progress despite the cards they’ve been dealt. Their stories of hope seldom make headlines, but they are just as real. An objective view of the world includes both: the tragic and the hopeful.
We met Naliaka, and heard her story of hope, in a small village in Kenya. She’s a 64-year-old farmer, has raised nine children, and is one of the most successful environmental conservationists we’ve ever met.
Years ago, she realized that the river her community depends on – for cooking, drinking, washing, farming – was endangered. Its surrounding forest was largely cut down. The trees no longer prevented the soil from polluting the river; their roots no longer filtered the water; their leaves and branches no longer attracted the rain. Everything her village had been taking for granted was at stake.
But Naliaka had hope, and acted on it. Together with her friends, and with the support of Ecosia’s local partner, the Green Belt Movement, Naliaka started a nursery. Year after year, she collected seeds, raised saplings, and regrew the forest that has protected her river for centuries.
For a bit of background: the Green Belt Movement, our tree-planting partner in Kenya, was founded by Prof. Wangari Maathai. She was the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize for her political activism and for empowering communities across Kenya to plant trees around critical water sources. For Wangari, tree planting was also about helping people, including the most marginalized, to stand up for their human and environmental rights.
Naliaka was trained by Wangari Maathai; that’s why she knows so much about trees, and how they contribute to water security. Thanks to your searches, the Green Belt Movement supports Naliaka’s nursery. Your searches, in other words, are protecting that river. And this global solidarity, this global concern with the future of our planet, is a reason to be hopeful – not just for Naliaka, but for all of us.
Produced by Joshi Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot) Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati) and Pako Quijada (pakoquijada) Writing by Joshi Gottlieb Cinematography by Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
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Physicists sifting through old particle accelerator data have found evidence of a highly-elusive, never-before-seen process: a so-called triangle singularity.
MARSEILLE, France — Delegates at this year’s global conservation summit have voted overwhelmingly in support of a motion that calls for a moratorium on deep-sea mining and the reform of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the U.N.-mandated body tasked with regulating this activity. Eighty-one governments and government agencies attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress voted […]
Eighty-one governments and government agencies attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress voted to ban deep-sea mining. Hundreds of NGOs and civil society organizations also voted in favor of the ban and the reform of the International Seabed Authority (ISA). Deep-sea mining activities would target three types of deep-sea habitat to extract minerals: abyssal plains, seamounts, and hydrothermal vents.
Globally, hoverflies constitute an extremely significant group of pollinators. In the next three years, key biodiversity data pertaining to all hoverfly species occurring in Europe will be compiled under a single website.
More than one-third of all sharks, rays, and chimaeras are now at risk of extinction because of overfishing, according to a new study re-assessing their IUCN Red List of Threatened Species extinction risk status.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has updated the status of the Komodo dragon to endangered, a worrying development for the world’s largest lizard.The dragon is just the lates…...
Spectacular trees reach for the sky in one of the last rainforests in Nigeria. They could soon be destroyed by rampant illegal logging and a new logging road.
The federal government has passed legislation to ban the mass killing of male chicks as of January 1, 2022. The decision means that Germany is set to be the first country to ban male chick culling by law.
It's been two years since the UK declared a Climate and Environment emergency. Since then we've had pledges and promises, but no legislation ambitious enough to achieve them.
Let's change that. I've signed this petition, will you?
In an August 26, 2021 article appearing here at Mongabay, Ashoka Mukpo detailed some of the controversies over Indigenous land rights brewing in the run-up to the October kickoff of the Fifteenth United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP-15. COPs have been meeting since 1994, discussing issues […]
Who is secretly responsible for the devastation of Brazil? A shocking short film reveals the hidden truth that no one is telling you about illegal deforestation, fires and slaughter in Brazil.
Wilderness Soceity welcomes today’s announcement by the WA Premier, Mark McGowan, that his government will protect native forests in that state from…...
The USPCA, Ulster Wildlife, and Northern Ireland Badger Group have joined forces to launch a petition in opposition to DAERA’s recently proposed badger cull as part of its bovine TB eradication strate...
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