Tag: Conservation
-
How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction
Scientists have been warning for decades that human actions are pushing life on our shared planet toward mass extinction. Such extinction events have occurred five times in the past, but a bold new paper finds that this time would be fundamentally different. Fortunately, there’s still time to stop it.
-
Prince William urges Chinese to stop buying ivory and rhino horn
Duke of Cambridge uses speech hours before Chinese president Xi Jinping’s UK state visit to campaign against trade in illegal wildlife products
-
Tuna and mackerel populations suffer catastrophic 74% decline, research shows
WWF says we risk losing species critical to human food security unless action is taken to halt overfishing and other threats to marine life
-
How to change the world: Greenpeace and the power of the mindbomb
The director and key figures in an award-winning documentary talk about the early days of the activist group and how shocking images were used for global impact
-
Leo DiCaprio and Sanctuary Belize working to preserve the country’s jungles and cayes
Four-time Oscar-nominee, Leonardo DiCaprio, is investing in Belize and championing some restorative initiatives along that country’s Central American coastline. But he is not the only one. Sanctuary Belize, a 14,000-acre real estate resort front on Belize’s southeast coast, is also working to preserve the country’s pristine jungles and delicate cayes for those who want to…
-
Oceans are world’s seventh largest economy worth $24tn, says WWF report
Vast economic worth of world’s oceans includes fishing, tourism and shipping but is declining due to pollution, climate change and overfishing