The Miraculous Web of Life Sustains ALL Species on Planet Earth – Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Humans. WITHOUT NATURE WE DO NOT EXIST. PERIOD. To the degree Nature is sick, so are we. We humans must reintegrate into the greater web of life as a species within it and not separate from it, by returning to respect and restoring balance and harmony to that which supports all life on this planet ... Nature ... #GDP should be replaced by #EcoEconomics ... Putting front and center the concerns for how we are destroying and objectifying the natural world for profit #Conservation #Ecosystems #Wildlife #Forests #Environment #Biodiversity #Ecoeconomics #CSR #GDP #Anthropocene
I've been sharing these beautiful vidoes on twitter for some time - since last year. They are absolutely stunning, and help to remind us about the wonder of creation and the marvel of pollination - a gift provided freely by nature, and one that feeds us. I thought it was high time I shared them a little further. Here they are:http://www.buzzaboutbees.net/pollination.html
(And Just Imagine if All this Pollen was from genetically modified plants and had been Sprayed with Pesticides and Insecticides. What would happen to the bees immune systems and to the honey?)
IUCN, March 13, 2015 -▶ POLLINATING BIRDS AND MAMMALS DECLINING, REVEALS FIRST GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF TRENDS IN THE STATUS OF POLLINATORS
-▶ MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION PLUNGES - THE PERFECT STORM - GMO CROPS, PESTICIDES, HABITAT LOSS AND EXTREME WEATHERhttp://sco.lt/6JKCR7
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July 23, 2013 EurActiv
-▶ DRAMATIC EU 50% BUTTERFLY DECLINE IMPACTING HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS, BIODIVERSITY AND OTHER SPECIES
Hans Bruyninckx, the EEA’s executive director, said: “This dramatic decline in grassland butterflies should ring alarm bells – in general Europe’s grassland habitats are shrinking. If we fail to maintain these habitats we could lose many of these species forever. We must recognise the importance of butterflies and other insects – the pollination they carry out is essential for both natural ecosystems and agriculture.” The report flags the over-intensification of agriculture in Western Europe as major cause of the decline. A statement accompanying the report blames agricultural intensification for creating vast sterile, uniform grasslands which do not provide the habitat needed for many indigenous species to survive. Butterflies, and other species, are also vulnerable to the over-use of chemical pesticides, a major component of intensive farming....
National Geographic, August 26, 2014 ELWHA: WORLD'S LARGEST DAM REMOVAL SETS U.S. RIVER FREE AFTER CENTURY OF HYDROELECTRIC PRODUCTION.As Washington State’s Elwha River runs free, a habitat for fish and wildlife is restored
Seattle PI, September 12, 2014 CHINOOK SALMON RETURNING TO RESERVOIR SITE ON ELWHA RIVER AFTER 102 YEARS.The largest dam removal in history experienced a key first signal of success as three adult Chinook salmon were spotted above the site of recently blasted-away Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River in Washington’s Olympic National Park.http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/09/12/chinook-salmon-returning-to-reservoir-sites-on-elwha-river/
ELWHA RIVER RESTORATION U.S. National Park Service, Olympic National Park Start your exploration of this landmark project here, by watching our growing series of short web videos, reading the weekly Elwha River Restoration Blog, checking project webcams and much more... http://www.nps.gov/olym/naturescience/elwha-ecosystem-restoration.htm
International Rivers has launched 'The State of the World's Rivers', an interactive online database that illustrates the role that dams have played in impoverishing the health of the world's river basins.
The "State of the World's Rivers' database shows how river fragmentation due to decades of dam-building is highly correlated with poor water quality and low biodiversity. Many of the world's great river basins have been dammed to the point of serious decline, including the Mississippi, Yangtze, Paraná and Danube. "The evidence we've compiled of planetary-scale impacts from river change is strong enough to warrant a major international focus on understanding the thresholds for 'river change' in the world's major basins, and for the planet as a whole system", said Jason Rainey, Executive Director of International Rivers. http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/47761
Release of the footage, taken by conservation group Earthrace Conservation, coincides with the start of this year's seal cull which is expected to kill 80-90,000 seal pups and up to 6,000 bulls....
Earthrace Conservation calls for an immediate halt before thousands more seal pups are brutally killed. The footage, released July 2013, shows dozens of seal pups being driven across the beach to be clubbed to death by a team wielding what appear to be pick axe handles before their carcasses are loaded into a pick-up truck for disposal.
This graphic and upsetting film, shot in 2011 but only just released by Earthrace Conservation, shows sealers clubbing Cape fur seals to death in a nature reserve. The footage has been presented to the country's government, but a request by animal protection groups to ban the practice has been ignored.
The Namibian seal hunt is responsible for the largest slaughter of marine mammals on earth and is considered to be the most brutal of all seal culls. For 139 days, terrified pups are rounded up, separated from their mothers, and brutally beaten to death for their pelts – a CITES protected species, killed in a seal reserve every day just hours before tourists come to view the remaining colony. Inhumane, illegal, unsustainable and unethical, many conservation groups violently oppose the slaughter.... http://ecowatch.com/2012/exposes-slaughter-baby-seals/
NAMIBIA: THE SEALS OF NAM - A GLOBAL OUTCRY
Each year, despite massive international criticism, flawed science, mounting public outcry and warnings from the IUCN, the quota gets increased.
Did you know the Namibian seal hunt is responsible for one of the largest slaughters of marine mammals on earth? It is considered to be the most brutal of ALL culls and is considered by scientists to be horrendously cruel.
From the 1st of July, 80 000 Cape Fur seal pups, still dependent on the teat, will be beaten to death with pick handles for their fur pelts. A further 6 000 adult bull seals will be shot at point blank range so that their penises can be used to make ineffective sex potions for the Asian markets, thus fueling an illegal trade in animal body parts for fake medicines. For the next 139 days, terrified pups will be rounded up, separated from their mothers and be violently beaten to death. The colony will be rounded up at day break. Pups, bulls and cows will be surrounded and kept away from the safety of the sea. Men with clubs move in and the seals run in fear.
Seals play a vital part in the natural food chain. Whales are starving due to lack of their food (seals) while man is cruelly slaughtering hundreds of thousands for their profit. Something MUST be done here
A journey into the soul of humanity - A powerful statement about deforestation and the global industrial economy.
-▶ "ALMA" explores the devastating impacts of the cattle industry on the Amazon and a powerful statement about the global industrial economy.
Beautifully shot, alternately joyful and horrifying, Alma captures the ecological, and even spiritual, cost of meat, dairy, and leather production in the Amazon.
A cinematic journey into the world's forests and the industries that are destroying them, this time heading to Brazil to explore the devastating impacts of the cattle industry. Here he creates a powerful statement about the global industrial economy and the speed with which virgin forests are being cleared for timber and new grazing land...http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8uVOYQPobzo
-▶ LUXURY LEATHER, SUPPLY CHAINS AND AMAZON DEFORESTATIONCattle ranches are threatening the Amazon thanks to our love of luxury leather goods. But, reports Lucy Siegle, Brazil's forests could have an unlikely ally: Gucci ...
... the more I see of the (fashion) industry, the more I am convinced the supply chain has become so confused that brands genuinely don't know where their raw materials are from.... Currently the luxury market is the key growth area in the fashion industry, so it's vital that this sector engages with ethical issues.
Mongabay, December 18, 2014 -▶ IMPACTS OF DEFORESTATION ON AMAZONIAN RIVER ECOSYSTEMS COULD BE FAR REACHING. Vast areas of the Amazon forest are being destroyed for agricultural uses, mainly industrial-scale soybean crops, and turned into pasture land for livestock.
Mongabay, May 14, 2014 ▶ NEW REPORT REVEALS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY CORPORATIONS, GOVERNMENTS IN THE AMAZON.
The report took over six months to complete and gives an in-depth account of the conflicts activists and indigenous peoples (IPs) are having with corporations and governmental agencies. It relays a situation that does not look good. The report details everything from physical attacks to “systematic pressure” by corporations and governments. According to the report, conflicts over land and territories have reached a ten-year peak in Brazil. In Peru, social conflicts have tripled since 2008, with two-thirds of the reported cases defined as “socioenvironmental” conflicts.http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0514-dulaney-regnskogfondet.html
Environmental Protection, February 01, 2013 -▶ THE VULNERABILITY OF AMAZON'S FRESH ECOSYSTEMS. River, lake and wetland ecosystems—encompassing approximately one-fifth of the Amazon basin area—are being increasingly degraded by deforestation, pollution, construction of dams and waterways, and over-harvesting of plant and animal species.http://eponline.com/articles/2013/02/01/the-vulnerability-of-amazons-freshwater-ecosystems.aspx
-▶ NATURE HAS THE ANSWERS: WE ARE SURROUNDED BY GENIUS
Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_GFq12w5WU
VIDEO Down To Earth, France 24, June 12, 2014 BIOMIMCRY: HACKING NATURE (10:50)
Architecture and Biologically-Inspired Engineering Biomimicry is the science of mimicking life. Have millions of years of evolution churned out all the answers? Down to Earth explores how biologically-inspired engineering is changing the way we innovate. From aircraft manufacturing, architecture for urban living, to reproducing synthetic spider silk, research and development laboratories are turning to nature for solutions. Proponents say the best recipes for innovation already exist and we just need to look around us.http://www.france24.com/en/20140609-down-to-earth-biomimicry-nature-technology-architecture-biology-engineering-airbus/
For hundreds of years, scientists have been poaching design ideas from structures in nature. Now, biologists and engineers at UC Berkeley are working together to design a broad range of new products, such as life-saving milli-robots modeled on the way cockroaches run and adhesives based on the amazing design of a geckos foot .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnBkbaFsZOY
ABC Science, Jnuary 15, 2013 -▶ THE "OMITHOPTER" JELLYFISH-INSPIRED FLYING MACHINE KEEPS UPRIGHT. Scientists have built the first ever flying machine that is capable of stable hovering simply by flapping its wings, using a movement similar to that of a swimming jellyfish. The new form of "ornithopter" is reported in Journal of the Royal Society Interfacehttp://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/01/15/3925459.htm
-▶ CURVY DESERT HOME DESIGNED BY IRANIAN STUDENTS MIMICS THE SNAILhttp://sco.lt/9ImeIL
Modern Farmer, April 22, 2014 -▶ ANT FARM: THESE INSECT COWBOYS HARVEST, HERD AND MILK: Learning to farm is considered the beginning of modern civilization. We praise ourselves as very intelligent creatures capable of learning to grow crops and keep cattle, but we are hardly the first species to acquire the skill. Ants — ants! — mastered husbandry way before us — about 50 million years ago, and they still continue farming today.http://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/meet-earths-oldest-farmers-ants/
-▶ THE BIOMIMICRY DESIGN PORTAL: HOW WOULD NATURE SOLVE GREEN BUILDING CHALLENGES?http://sco.lt/4vSEDZ
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-▶ BIOMIMICRY: We must draw our standards from the natural world. We must honor with the humility of the wise the bounds of that natural world and the mystery which lies beyond them, admitting that there is something in the order of being which evidently exceeds all our competencehttp://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/benyus-biomimicry.html
-▶ LIVING LESSONS OF BIOMIMICRY. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her...http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=790
Biomimicry is gaining widespread recognition for its interdisciplinary approach to innovation. By bringing biologists to the design table, biomimicry offers solutions for increasing sustainability of products, processes, and systems. A new UC Berkeley course, How Would Nature Do That? Underwater glue, molecular-sized solar cells, self-assembly, insect communication, swarm behavior, genetic algorithms ...http://science.kqed.org/quest/2011/04/20/biomimicry-abounds-in-the-bay-area/
▶ THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS: HOW A NEW BUSINESS ERA INSPIRED BY NATURE, NOT GREED, CAN BENEFIT US ALLhttp://sco.lt/97vmc5
A mismatch between the departure schedules of songbirds and higher spring temperatures at their breeding sites means they are arriving 'late' for the advanced spring and likely missing out on peak food they need to be productive breeders.
Aerial insectivores, like purple martins and other swallows, are experiencing strong population declines, particularly species migrating longer distances and populations breeding further north. Scientists have shown in a European species that declines may be due to an inability to advance arrival schedules to match a warming climate. This study provides the first direct evidence of a discrepancy between higher spring temperatures at breeding sites and departure schedules of individual songbirds..... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130603135525.htm
Survival International, March 10, 2015 -▶ ETHIOPIA: TRIBE STARVES AS DAM AND LAND GRABS DRY UP RIVER,The Kwegu, the smallest and most vulnerable tribe in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley, is starving as a result of the massive Gibe III dam and associated large-scale irrigation for commercial plantations on tribal land.http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10691
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/video-lower-omo-local-tribes-under-threat Ethiopia has been the focus of aggressive foreign agricultural investment, leasing out nearly 3.6 million hectares of land for commercial farm ventures from 2008-2010. This investment has corresponded with widespread human rights violations. Most egregiously, the Ethiopian government's villagization program will displace 1.5 million people by 2013--with the five administrative regions that have the largest share of foreign investment the hardest hit. The forced relocation of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people from their lands to make room for foreign investors has destroyed livelihoods and rendered small-scale farmers and pastoralist communities fearful of their own survival, as rapes and killings involving security forces have been reported in Lower Omo and Gambella regions,,, http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/video-lower-omo-local-tribes-under-threat
VIDEO The Center For Investigative Reporting ETHIOPIA: A BATTLE FOR LAND AND WATER (7:16) Food for Nine Billion: A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the race to secure prized farmland and water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NirEpFYN2dM
-▶ ETHIOPIA'S LAND GRABS: INTERVIEWS FROM THE HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS DISPLACED BY FOREIGN LANDGRABBING
Wealthy nations and multinational corporations are taking over lands that are home to hundreds of thousands of ethnically, linguistically, geographically and culturally distinct pastoralists and indigenous communities. Out of 740,000 hectares, 640,000 hectares of land have been leased to government-owned companies and private investors.
IPS Inter Press Service, March 21, 2014 -▶ EGYPT GETS MUSCULAR OVER ETHIOPIA'S NILE DAM.
CAIRO, Mar 21 2014 (IPS) - Experts claim Cairo is deadly serious about defending its historic water allotment, and if Ethiopia proceeds with construction of what is set to become Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam, a military strike is not out of the question. Relations between Egypt and Ethiopia have soured since Ethiopia began construction on the 4.2 billion dollar Grand Renaissance Dam in 2011.
-▶ EGYPT WARNS ' ALL OPTIONS OPEN' ON MEGA ETHOPIA DAM -
Ethiopia has begun diverting the Blue Nile 500 metres (yards) from its natural course to construct a $4.2 billion (3.2 billion euro) hydroelectric project known as Grand Renaissance Dam.
The Blue Nile joins the White Nile in Khartoum to form the Nile which flows through Sudan and Egypt before emptying into the Mediterranean.
June 3, 2013 World Environment News - -▶ MID-EAST WATER WARS: Ethiopia studies on Nile dam fall short: Diverting Water From Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia and the impact of a $4.7 billion hydroelectric dam.http://planetark.org/wen/68819
WATCH
Oakland Institute "THE HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT OF LAND INVESTMENTS ON INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN GAMBELLA, ETHIOPIA"
July 17, 2013 farmlandgrab.org | -▶ FINGERPRINTS OF INTERNATIONAL AID ON FORCED RELOCATION, REPRESSION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN ETHIOPIAhttp://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/22318
-▶ ETHIOPIA'S 'VILLAGISATION' SCHEME FAILS TO BEAR FRUIT
The story of healing landscapes at scale, and, with it, restoring life, livelihoods, security and a future in China, Jordan, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Bolivia. This documentary is not just a tale of hope, it’s evidence of hope – it’s proof that we do not need to give in to apathy and despair. Instead, we see we have the simple solutions right in front of us...http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/green-gold/
UNPRECEDENTED STUDY
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE DISAPPEAR WITH WESTERN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATIONhttp://sco.lt/9EV0jZ
▶ LAND GRABS: HOW FOREIGN "INVESTMENTS" ARE REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, LAND AND WATER ACROSS THE GLOBEhttp://sco.lt/5YJpKb
▶ HEALING THE EARTH: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CLIMATE CHANGE. For Indigenous peoples climate change is not a political slogan but an inescapable reality of their daily life. In a new series for the Ecologist, Gleb Raygorodetsky explores how different communities are responding to the challenges of climate change ...
This blog is part of the Healing the Earth project of the Conversations with the Earth (CWE) initiative, a multimedia platform that brings Indigenous voices on climate change to the global audience. Follow CWE on Facebook or Twitter @ConversEarth.
One World News, December 9, 2013 -▶ INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE VITAL FOR BIODIVERSITY, SAY EXPERTS. With species disappearing up to 1,000 times faster than the natural extinction rate, biodiversity experts say knowledge co-production with indigenous peoples has growing importance. http://oneworld.org/2013/12/05/indigenous-knowledge-vital-for-biodiversity-say-experts/
UNPRECEDENTED STUDY
THREATENING OUR OWN EXTINCTION WITH LOSS OF BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITYhttp://sco.lt/64XtcP
▶ INDIGENOUS FOOD FORESTS CAN MITIGATE RISKS OF "FEAST OR FAMINE" - BIG CORPORATE AG NOT THE ANSWERhttp://sco.lt/8q2M41
DO WE REALLY NEED CORPORATE 'CLIMATE-SMART' AGRICULTURE GREENWASH? - AGRA IN AFRICAhttp://sco.lt/7GeSET
VIDEO:
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HOPE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
"RESTORING THE EARTH - RWANDA, ETHIOPIA AND CHINA"
-▶ INDIA: THI RAJASTHAN VILLAGE IS HELPING THEMSELVES BY HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT. Lapodiya, a village of 200 households in Rajasthan, is a shining example of how environment governance at the grassroots level can save a village from natural disasters. Here, people have adopted innovative water conservation practices and a culture which they have improvised and perfected over three decades.
▶ THE ROLE OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD PRODUCTION AND POVERTY ERADICATIONhttp://sco.lt/5ZBIbx
-▶ BOLIVIA GIVES LEGAL RIGHT TO NATURE -- FIRST NATION IN THE WORLD TO DO SOhttp://sco.lt/5DoTRp
VIDEO AT ONE WITH NATURE
THE GREAT LAWS OF NATURE: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AGRICULTURE
Healing Themselves By Returning to Natural Law and Reconnection to the Land . This video depicts how a group of First Nations People in Saskatchewan Canada are reclaiming their Indigenous agricultural heritage, reconnecting with Nature, learning and observing her natural laws, and getting back on the road to self-reliance...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn1ym5r7pqg
September 11, 2013 Common Dreams ▶ THE WISDOM OF THEIR ANCESTORS
"There are people all over the world who haven’t forgotten the wisdom of their ancestors and who are coming together in the name of ‘participatory democracy’ to ensure that their voice is heard; that they are not silent witnesses to the crime of ecocide."http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/11-7
Ensia Magazine -▶ THE GIFT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: : International conservation strategies increasingly look to indigenous knowledgehttp://ensia.com/notables/#notable7617
-▶ 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
▶ 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
IUCN RED LIST OF ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS Everyone knows that coral reefs are in danger, and that the rainforests are disappearing – or do we? What do we actually know in scientific terms? How much of these ecosystems are left, and how likely are they to disappear? IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is developing a new tool to provide answers to these questions – the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems.http://www.iucnredlistofecosystems.org/about-us/red-list-ecosystems/
UNPRECEDENTED STUDY
BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY LOSS PAINTS DIRE PICTURE FOR FUTURE OF HUMAN SPECIEShttp://sco.lt/4m6nZJ
▶ ESSAY: ECOLOGY IS THE MEANING OF LIFE: EMBRACING A SENSE OF "ENOUGHNESS"http://sco.lt/6m0XJZ
▶ **** 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 biodiversityhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/06/food-for-9-billion-costa-rica.html
In this beautifully animated clip from Dirt! The Movie, Wangari Maathai tells an inspiring tale of doing the best you can under seemingly interminable odds. ... http://vimeo.com/32036910
TAKING ROOT is a compelling documentary narrative about the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1977, Maathai suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming from a degraded environment. Under her leadership, their tree-planting grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, defend human rights and promote democracy, and brought Maathai the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
-▶ GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF IMPORTANT FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
Michel Roggo is based in Switzerland, and this has a lot to do with his passion: He started freshwater photography in the countless crystal clear rivers and lakes of the Swiss Alps. With 25 years of experience and about 100 expeditions worldwide, he has the skills to work on a global freshwater project: Produce a photographic documentation of 30 important freshwater environments from across the globe, focusing on underwater images. This as a contribution to safeguarding the future of the world's wetland areas. The duration of the project is 4 years, starting 2011. So far, about 20 locations have been photographed.http://www.roggo.ch/thefreshwaterproject/
ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) December 12, 2014 ▶ OIL SPILL THREATENS RARE DOLPHINS IN BANGLADESH'S SUNDARBANS REGION, OFFICIALS WARN. Thousands of litres of oil spilled into the protected Sundarbans mangrove area, home to rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins. Bangladeshi fishermen using sponges and sacks have begun cleaning up a huge oil spill in a protected area that is home to the world's largest mangrove foresthttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-12/catastrophic-oil-spill-in-bangladesh/5963450
Mother Nature Network -▶ RIVER OTTERS, THE HARDEST WORKING CLOWNS IN THE WATER.Playful, curious, rambunctious and so much fun to watch, North American river otters are an important part of a healthy riparian habitat. River otters can be found near lakes, rivers, swamps and estuaries. Click through to see more photos of these adorable animals and learn more about just how amazing they are. (Text: Jaymi Heimbuch)
-▶ IN PHOTOS: RIVER OTTERS MAKING A COME BACK IN CALIFORNIA'S BAY AREA . A sign not only that the local efforts put into habitat restoration are paying off, but that focusing on coexisting with wildlife in general can bring back native species to an area.
A Growing Movement Says It’s About Time. Inspired by indigenous views of #Nature, a movement to grant a form of legal “personhood” to #Rivers is gaining some ground — a key step, advocates say, in reversing centuries of damage inflicted upon the world’s #Waterways
https://e360.yale.edu/features/should-rivers-have-rights-a-growing-movement-says-its-about-time via @YaleE360
Philly.com, July 16, 2014 -▶ RIVER CHEMICALS ARE FEMINIZING MALE FISHMale fish with signs of feminization, including the development of eggs, have been discovered in Pennsylvania’s Delaware, Ohio, and Susquehanna river basins. The find is a sign of hormone-disrupting chemicals in the water, possibly from mixtures of pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, like cosmetics and antibacterial soaps, seeping into the rivers, Philly.com reports. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection has begun sampling river systems to learn which exact compounds are present, and if they could possibly affect humans. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/science/20140716_Intersex_fish_indicate_chemical_problems_in_Pa__rivers.htm
▶ STUDY FIND ECSTASY IN RIVER WATER NEAR MUSIC FESTIVAL.Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics aren’t the only emerging pollutants to threaten water quality, according to researchers who studied a river near a major music festival in Taiwan. Wastewater treatment plants are not set up to remove them efficiently, so they get into soil and water. Some have been shown to affect the behavior of fish and to have other adverse effects on the environment.http://summitcountyvoice.com/2015/01/17/study-finds-ecstasy-in-river-near-music-festival/
New York Times, September 25, 2014 -▶ A RISING TIDE OF CONTAMINANTS. The number of chemicals contaminating our environment is growing at exponential rate, scientists say. A team of researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey tracks them in American waterways, sediments, landfills and municipal sewage sludge, which is often converted into agricultural fertilizer.They’ve found steroid hormones and the antibacterial agent triclosan in sewage; the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) in fish; and compounds from both birth control pills and detergents in the thin, slimy layer that forms over stones in streams.
Nature World News, September 21, 2014 ▶ 206 MILLION POUNDS OF CHEMICALS HIT OUR WATERWAYS IN ONE YEAR.A new report prepared by the Environment America Research and Policy Center (EARPC) has revealed than in 2012 alone, more than 206 million pounds of toxic chemicals found were dumped into United States waterways despite efforts by local officials and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prevent this harmful action.http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/9137/20140921/206-million-pounds-chemicals-hit-waterways-one-year.htm
The Baltic Course | Baltic States news & analytics, January 30, 2015
ALMOST HALF OF EU FRESHWATERS SUFFER FROM CHEMICAL POLLUTION
Environmental Health News, September 26, 2014 -▶ FISH STILL CONTAMINATED WITH SCOTCHGARD CHEMICAL PHASED-OUT A DOZEN YEARS AGO - NEW FEDERAL STUDY. The study, the largest of its kind in freshwater fish, suggests that eating bass, trout, walleye and catfish could be a major source of exposure for anglers and their families. The chemical remains widespread in wildlife, people and water around the world.http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/sep/pfos-in-waters
Nation of Change, July 27, 2014 -▶ TOP AGRIBUSINESS FOOD COMPANIES DUMPING WASTE IN OUR WATERS. Companies like Tyson Foods, Cargill, Inc., and Perdue Farms Inc. dump their garbage—more than 206 million pounds of it—into our water almost every year and leave others to worry about the clean-up. Now, as the Environmental Protection Agency considers a rule to restore the Clean Water Act, these companies are pulling out all the stops to maintain their freedom to dump and pollute, regardless of the toxic outcomes.http://www.nationofchange.org/top-agribusiness-food-companies-dumping-waste-our-waters-1406476247
WATCH
"A RIVER OF WASTE"
The Massive Pollution and History of #FactoryFarms - #CAFOs
Turning on the lights? Driving to work? Surfing the web? You’re using water! Energy is inextricable linked to water. With the greater need for energy, the demand for water will continue to increase. How can we balance the need for water in energy with water for crops, households, and factories? How can we make do with the water we have? http://www.prairiepublic.org/television/prairie-public-on-demand/water-the-lifeblood-of-energy
Muchies, December 03, 2014 -▶ US POWER PLANTS ARE BOILING FISH ALIVE. All across the USA, millions of salmon, trout, and sturgeon—as well as endangered species such as sea turtles and orcas—are being sucked up by power plants and either boiled whole or ground to a pulp. Worst of all, these fine fish go completely to waste, spat back out into oceans or rivers dead https://munchies.vice.com/articles/power-plants-are-boiling-salmon-trout-and-sturgeon-alive
COAL ASH DESTROYS A PERFECTLY GOOD RIVER. Experts have only just started getting a handle on the environmental and health impacts of Duke Energy's spill of tens of thousands of tons of toxic coal ash into North Carolina's Dan Riverhttp://grist.org/news/duke-energys-coal-ash-spill-has-utterly-ruined-a-river/
▶ ECOCIDES RAVAGE MEXICAN WATERS. Toxic soups seeping into rivers and groundwater. Millions of dead fish stinking up a large lake. A marine mammal on the verge of extinction. Such are the scenes that ravage the waters of the Mexican Republic. http://fnsnews.nmsu.edu/ecocides-ravage-mexican-waters/
WETLANDS VITAL IN SUPPORTING HUMAN LIFE AND BIODIVERSITY
Emmy-Award Winning Environmental Film, University of Minnesota
"TROUBLED WATERS: A MISSISSIPPI RIVER STORY" This excellent one hour documentary examines the "unintended consequences" of farming practices on water quality, soil loss and the "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. Knitting together federal energy, farm and environmental policies, the film makes a compelling case for the revamping of US agricultural policy. Through beautiful photography and inspiring narrative, the film puts deliberate emphasis on solutions and provides a hopeful blueprint for progress and positive change... http://www.rememberthispoint.com/?p=212
World Environment News, September 25, 2014 ▶ CHINA SAYS FIRST-HALF RESULT EXCEED TARGET FOR CUTTING WATER POLLUTION.China is on track to exceed its 2014 target for cutting water pollution, the government announced on Wednesday, amid reports that it plans a $326 billion action plan to clean up its rivers and lakes. A lack of environmental oversight during decades of economic growth has caused a dire water crisis in China, as toxic waste from factories has left 70 percent of rivers and lakes and over half its groundwater polluted.http://planetark.org/wen/72243
▶ RIVERS OR GRAVE YARDS? THE WOES OF THE INDIAN GHARIAL AND GANGETIC DOLPHIN IN THE YAMUNA RIVERhttp://sco.lt/6DIPRJ
Common Dreams, February 4, 2014 YET ANOTHER COAL PLANT DISASTER ▶ TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TONS OF COAL ASH SPILLING INTO N.C. RIVER.Duke Energy coal plant disaster sends arsenic, mercury, lead, boron and other toxic heavy metals pouring into Dan Riverhttp://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/04-6
VIDEO REPORT Newshour, March 05, 2014 THE BIGGEST EVER FINES FOR A COAL COMPANYthat violated its water pollution permits: 6,000 violations, violations over 300 state-issued permits, hundreds of streams, tributaries and rivers, 79 active coal mines, 25 coal processing plants, where they put the coal and wash it before it’s shipped, over five Appalachian states. So it’s a pretty massive coverage area for the settlement.
Fast Company: - ▶ WHY YOU NEED TO UNPLUG EVERY 90 MINUTES. While we often imagine ourselves as machines--which move linearly--we're actually organisms, which move cyclically. And to do our most creative, productive work, we need to step to that rhythm.... http://www.fastcompany.com/3013188/unplug/why-you-need-to-unplug-every-90-minutes
***** OUR 21ST CENTURY GENETIC FACTORY OF LIFE - RE-ENGINEERING, RE-PROGRAMMING AND PATENTING LIFE ITSELF: - IS BIOTECH OUT OF CONTROL? http://sco.lt/4thM6j
The Bushmen are the indigenous people of southern Africa. They have experienced a genocide which has been almost completely ignored; having once occupied the whole of southern Africa, just 100,000 remain today... http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/bushmen
Survival International, September 04, 2014 ▶ BOTSWANA GOVERNMENT LIES EXPOSED AS DIAMOND MINE OPENS ON BUSHMAN LAND.A $4.9bn diamond mine will open on September 5 in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the ancestral land of Africa’s last hunting Bushmen, exactly ten years after the Botswana government claimed there were “no plans to mine anywhere inside the reserve.” The Bushmen were told they had to leave the reserve soon after diamonds were discovered in the 1980s, but the Botswana government has repeatedly denied that the illegal and forced evictions of the Kalahari Bushmen – in 1997, 2002 and 2005 – were due to the rich diamond deposits. It justified the Bushmen’s evictions from the land in the name of “conservation”. http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/10410
Survival International ▶ BUSHMEN OF KALAHARI BEING DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION:Bushmen of Kalahari: Botswana has continued to ruthlessly and relentlessly persecute its first people in an attempt to drive them from their land. Banned from hunting, and forced to apply for permits to enter the reserve, they are now being pushed to the brink of extinction.http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/bushmen
Africa Geographic Magazine, September 12, 2014 ▶KALAHARI NIGHTS - PHOTOS - DEEPEST DARKEST AFRICA.The people of the Kalhari and Nature Is Suffering From Light Pollution. Protection from light pollution clearly benefits our educational and cultural well-being but it goes further. Light pollution can damage entire ecosystems.http://magazine.africageographic.com/weekly/issue-11/deepest-darkest-africa/
▶THE NEW CORPORATE COLONIALISM. DESTRUCTION OF PLANETARY LIFE, INDIGENOUS LAND AND LIVELIHOODS IN THE NAME OF "GROWTH" http://sco.lt/5nT3OT
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▶ FOREIGN CORPORATONS DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS, INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS, NULLIFYING LAND RIGHTS - CREATING DEPENDENCY AND POVERTY ON A GLOBAL SCALEhttp://sco.lt/4l725B
▶ LAND GRABS: HOW FOREIGN "INVESTMENTS" ARE REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH, LAND AND WATER ACROSS THE GLOBE http://sco.lt/96H2yv
Despite signing up to global initiatives seeking to protect wild tigers and double their number by 2022, Government departments in China have quietly set about stimulating… http://vimeo.com/60444302
Reuters, February 03, 2015 ▶ CHINA DEMAND FOR TIGER PARTS FUELLING POACHING : EXPERTS.Thousands of tigers once roamed forests in South and Southeast Asia but numbers have plummeted to about 3,000 worldwide. Experts say poaching is fueled by a thriving trade in China, where tiger parts are prized as status symbols and often used in traditional medicine.
New Straits Times , December 30, 2014 ▶ BEIJING: CHINA BUSINESSMAN JAILED FOR 23 YEARS OVER TIGER FEAST. A Chinese businessman who bought and ate three tigers has been sentenced to 13 years in prison, state media reports. The wealthy real estate developer, identified only by his surname Xu, has “a special hobby of grilling tiger bones, boning tiger paws, storing tiger penis, eating tiger meat and drinking tiger blood alcohol,” the official Xinhua news agency said in June when he went on trial..http://www.nst.com.my/node/67567
Inhabitat, March 27, 2014 ▶ MORE THAN 10 TIGERS SLAUGHTERED IN A SHOW FOR OFFICIALS AND BUSINESSMEN IN CHINA. Police recently revealed that over 10 tigers have been tortured and killed in China in order to entertain wealthy businessmen and government officials. The tigers were killed in so-called “visual feasts” meant to show the social stature of the people watching. Video footage discovered shows a caged tiger being slowly electrified before a butcher came to dissect the animal.http://inhabitat.com/more-than-10-tigers-slaughtered-in-a-show-for-officials-and-businessmen-in-china/
The Dodo, May 08, 2014 -▶ CHINA STEPS UP: PLEDGE A WHOPPING $100 MILLION TO STOP POACHINGChina, a notorious source of demand for a massive illegal wildlife trade, is stepping up its game to save wildlife with a massive $100 million donation to combat poaching in Africa. The Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, announced the fund during a visit to the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa.
New York Times, June 28, 2014 -▶ CHINA'S THREAT TO WILD TIGERS.Tigers command a small fortune on the black market, and demand is rising. A loophole in the country’s wildlife protection law allows the breeding and “utilization” of certain products derived from captive-bred endangered species. This has made industrial-scale “tiger farming” big business. The number of captive tigers skyrocketed from about 85 in 1993 to 5,000-plus today.
EARLIER this year, a police raid on a house party in Leizhou, Guangdong Province, in southern China, revealed a decadent diversion apparently popular among some of China’s elite: watching a tiger being slaughtered and butchered, then gorging on meat that’s considered an exotic delicacy.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/opinion/sunday/chinas-threat-to-wild-tigers.html
Guardian, July 21, 2014 -▶ ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE ALONG THE BURMA-CHINA BORDER -- IN PICTURES.The town of Mong-La in Burma's Shan state, close to the border with China, is at the crossroads of illegal wildlife trade routes that are sucking the forests, jungles and plains of India, Burma, Laos and Thailand dry of their native animals and plants – many of them endangeredhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/-sp-endangered-species-on-sale-along-burmachina-border
▶ RUSSIAN FORESTS AND TIGERS LEFT FLOORED BY ILLEGAL LOGGING - IMPORTING NATIONS MUST TAKE ACTIONhttp://sco.lt/8ROSsD
WATCH
Nature PBS "SIBERIAN TIGER" | Full Episode
Ecologist Chris Morgan travels to far eastern Russia, in search of the Siberian tigers that hold rank in the frozen forests. The film features the work of Korean cameraman Sooyong Park, the first individual ever to film Siberian tigers in the wild. Park spent years in the forest tracking and filming the world’s biggest cat
Mongabay, July 07, 2014 -▶ PRICE OF IVORY TRIPLES IN CHINA. In the last four years the price of ivory in China has tripled, according to new research from Save the Elephants. The news has worrying implications for governments and conservationists struggling to save elephants in Africa amidst a poaching epidemic, which has seen tens-of-thousands of elephants butchered for their tusks across the continent annually.http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0707-hance-ivory-price.html
TIME, July 03, 2014
▶ AFRICAN-ELEPHANT POACHING SOARS AS IVORY PRICE TRIPLES IN CHINAhttp://time.com/29
Mongabay, December 2, 2013 - ▶ ANTI-POACHING STORY GOES VIRAL IN CHINA - A newspaper story about the impact of the ivory trade has gone viral in China, raising awareness among millions of Chinese, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)...http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1220-china-viral-elephant-story.html
June 17, 2013 Guardian Global Development - John Vidal LA VIA CAMPESINA, WORLD'S LARGEST POLITICAL MOVEMENT, TO CHALLENGE MULTI-NATIONALS ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY, LAND GRABS AND DEFORESTATION
Largely absent from the business world, animal portraits without words or explicit messages around sustainability, were found to effectively change perceptions and communicate the need for change.
Working with a team from Michigan State University, Joseph Zammit-Lucia analysed the impact of his animal portraits on viewers in museum and classroom settings. Without words or explicit messages about sustainability or conservation, around 90% of viewers changed their cultural perceptions of animals and made statements about the need for more sustainable lifestyles to help protect the animals. We're really interested to hear what you think of these images. What message, if any, do you take from them? Largely absent from the business world, what do you think artists, novelists, poets and musicians can bring to sustainability? It would be great to hear your thoughts - leave them below or tweet @GuardianSustBiz with #GSB... http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/gallery/sustainable-future-arts-imagination-gallery#/?picture=409437897&index=1
▶ HUMANITY OVERRUNS NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS. THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT COLLAPSE IN THE PURSUIT OF SHORT TERM GROWTH
-- BIOSPHERE COLLAPSE: THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC BUBBLE EVER. ...“Horrendous inequity whereby a few hundred people possess half of Earth’s wealth as more than one billion live on less than $1.50/day....
June 17, 2013 Guardian Global Development - John Vidal -▶ LA VIA CAMPESINA, WORLD'S LARGEST POLITICAL MOVEMENT, TO CHALLENGE MULTI-NATIONALS ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY, LAND GRABS AND DEFORESTATION
Multinational companies have been encouraged by the Indonesian Government to seize and deforest land owned by the indigenous peoples.. "The presence of palm oil plantations has spawned a new poverty and is triggering a crisis of landlessness and hunger. Human rights violations keep occurring around natural resources in the country and intimidation, forced evictions and torture are common," said Sarigih. "There are thousands of cases that have not surfaced. Many remain hidden, especially by local authorities," he says....
Pambazuka, April 08, 2014 ▶ BRICS: THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA. The BRICS are united in their drive for foreign direct investment, a thirst for natural resources and poor environmental regulation. A closer examination of the predatory capitalist penetration of each BRIC nation reveals multi-national companies carving up Africa in a similar way the countries of the 1884 Berlin conference did to Africahttp://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/91298
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FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS, INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS, NULLIFYING LAND RIGHTS, CREATING A CULTURE OF DEPENDENCYhttp://sco.lt/4l725B
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ETHIOPIA - LOWER OMO LOCAL TRIBES UNDER THREAT FROM FOREIGN LAND GRABShttp://sco.lt/4ixwsT
▶ MEGA MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS DESTROYING LOCAL COMMUNITIES, ENVIRONMENT AND ECOSYSTEMShttp://sco.lt/8nJQf3
-▶ DEFORESTATION, MINING RISES AGAIN IN BRAZIL'S AMAZON IMPACTING ECOSYSTEMS, CLIMATE AND INDIGENOUS LIVELIHOODS http://sco.lt/4ha4y9
ERADICATING ECOCIDE
WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE
-▶ SHOULD COMPANIES COMPENSATE SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION FROM WHICH THEY PROFIT?http://sco.lt/72Hsf3
Common Dream, April 22, 2014 -▶ CORPORATE COLONIALISM: PROTESTERS SLAM TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP.These secretive trade pacts are really about restoring global U.S. military power and economic dominancehttp://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/04/22-3
HOW UK AND USA GOVERNMENTS SUPPORT FOR BIG AGRIBUSINESS IS FUELING POVERTYhttp://sco.lt/6UGd17
WATCH
SHORT VIDEO: RESOURCE RIGHTS
Grassroots International
Big business wants to control our resources--grabbing land, privatizing water, patenting seeds, and trying to squeeze out anyone who gets in the way of their profits. Fortunately, there is an alternative that places the rights of people and communities ahead of corporate interests--resource rights. http://www.grassrootsonline.org/issues/resource-rights
▶ WALL STREET, CORPORATIONS BUYING UP AMERICAN AND FOREIGN FARMLAND, THREATENING FUTURE OF U.S. AND WORLD AGRICULTUREhttp://sco.lt/8U908P
▶ WEST PAPUA : 226 THOUSAND HECTARES OF VIRGIN FOREST WILL BE CLEARED FOR CORPORATE PALM OIL, DESTROYING ALL LIFE WITHIN IT AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIEShttp://sco.lt/5rAELZ
Intercontinental Cry Magazine, June 27, 2014 ▶ NICARAGUA'S MAYAGNA PEOPLE AND THEIR RAINFOREST COULD VANISH. More than 30,000 members of the Mayagna indigenous community are in danger of disappearing, along with the rainforest which is their home in Nicaragua, if the state fails to take immediate action to curb the destruction of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, the largest forest reserve in Central America and the third-largest in the world. http://intercontinentalcry.org/nicaraguas-mayagna-people-rainforest-vanish-24439/
-- WATCH -- VIDEO REPORT
"It is better to die from bullets than from hunger" September 15, 2013 The Real News
Mongabay, March 14, 2014 -▶ INDONESIAN SUGAR CORPORATION POISED TO DESTROY HALF OF ISLAND NATURAL FORESTS ON INDONESIA'S REMOTE ARU ISLANDSThe impacts on Aru's legendary biodiversity — on land and in the surrounding marine ecosystems — would be devastating. "The concessions in question takes away the rights of indigenous communities over their territories," Abdon said. "The livelihoods of local communities depend closely on existing natural resources and tenure security, and both will be destroyed.http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0315-aru-sugar-plantations.html
Mongabay, November 7, 2013 -▶ PALM OIL COMPANIES IGNORING COMMUNITY RIGHTS, NEW STUDY SHOWS,Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) are violating the rights of local communities in tropical forests and failing to live up to social and environmental commitmentshttp://news.mongabay.com/2013/1107-dparker-palm-oil-rights.html?n3ws1ttr
-▶ MASSIVE PALM OIL PLANTATION WILL "CUT THE HEART OUT" OF CAMEROON'S RAINFOREST, DESTROY INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AND WILDLIFE HABITAThttp://sco.lt/8lmMBF
-▶ THE PALM OIL HOLOCAUST: AND WE STAND BY AND ALLOW CORPORATE ECOCIDE?http://sco.lt/5wsAPh
-▶ INDONESIA:THE RAPE AND PILLAGE OF SUMATRAN TIGERS' LAST STRONGHOLDhttp://sco.lt/62jf3h
Mongabay, August 11, 2014 -▶ INDONESIA'S CHILDREN SEE RAVAGED ENVIRONMENT IN THEIR FUTURE. A generation ago, Borneo was one of the wildest places on the planet, a stronghold for species like orangutan, pygmy elephants, Sumatran rhinos, and clouded leopards among tens-of-thousands of other. But decades of logging and oil palm plantations has changed the landscape of Borneo forever: in fact a recent study found that the island has lost 73 percent of its intact lowland forest and 30 percent of its total forest cover since 1973. In the face of this large-scale environmental destruction, a new study in PLOS ONE finds that Indonesian Borneo's children have a pessimistic view of their future, predicting rising temperatures, wildlife declines, and continued destruction of the island's great rainforests.http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0811-hance-kalimantan-children.html
FOOD AID FOR THE 21st CENTURY
MEETING THE OBJECTIVE OR FEEDING CORPORATE COFFERS
INDONESIA: THE RAPE AND PILLAGE OF SUMATRAN TIGERS' LAST STRONGHOLD. No Sumatran wild animal is safe as contact with humans rises with disastrous results...Contact between humans and wild animals is increasing disastrously in Sumatra as deforestation, mining and palm oil concessions expand, fragmenting forest habitats and driving animals out of protected areas. The exact number of tigers left in the wild is uncertain but latest estimates range from under 300 to possibly 500 in 27 locations.,,, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/26/tigers-stronghold-sumatra-poachers
TIMEWorld, October 31, 2013 ▶ HOW PALM OIL IS DRIVING THE SUMATRAN TIGER TO BRINK OF EXTINCTIONIt’s in your mascara, your laundry detergent and even your Oreo cookies — the world is addicted to palm oil. Indonesia is the largest exporter, but production there comes at a huge cost. Oil-palm plantations have savagely encroached on the nation’s diverse rainforests, and slash-and-burn clearance for new plantations recently engulfed much of Southeast Asia in acrid smog... http://world.time.com/2013/10/31/palm-oil-is-killing-the-sumatran-tiger/
WATCH - Documentary "THE LEGENDARY SWAMP TIGERS" Entangled, mangrove forest on the Bay of Bengal is the kingdom of a creature rarely seen by humans. One of the most efficient predators on Earth, this animal is feared as a killer and a man-eater - the legendary swamp tiger. These tigers are so elusive that all attempts to track them in these impenetrable swamps ended in failure. More than a decade ago, cameraman Mike Herd captured the swamp tiger on film for the first time. It was an extraordinary breakthrough, the first glimpse into the secret life of the least known tiger in the world - the swamp tiger of the Bangladeshi Sundarbans.http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/swamp-tigers/
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
Most people would be so angry and sad that someone can just walk into their home and knock it down. Animal also loose their land to people who walk in. Even the top predator can loose their land to greedy corporate businessmen that want to build a hotel or a McDonald. The abuse of deforestation is diminishing animal population around the world.
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