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July 30, 2010
New report: ecosystem monitoring critical to solve global hunger crisis
How can we solve the global hunger crisis? In a new report that appeared this week in the science journal Nature, renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, CI’s Sandy Andelman and 23 other food security experts asserted the need for a global data collection network that tracks the impacts of different agricultural practices on the environment.
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July 29, 2010
Galápagos Islands taken off danger list
At a meeting this week in Brasilia, the World Heritage Committee agreed to remove the Galápagos Islands from the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger . That’s good news – right? Well yes, it is: an official “thumbs up” that we are headed in the right direction.
Read more...July 23, 2010
U.S. Senate Delays Climate Bill
Yesterday the U.S. Senate decided to shelve efforts to pass comprehensive energy and climate change legislation . The reason?
Read more...July 21, 2010
New U.S. National Ocean Policy Signed
Earlier this week, President Obama signed an executive order for the new U.S.
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July 16, 2010
Good News for Forests – A Decline in Illegal Logging
A new report by London-based think tank Chatham House indicates that illegal logging is down 22 percent worldwide since 2002. This decrease may have kept between 1.2 billion and 14.6 billion metric tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere, thereby reducing the impact of deforestation on global climate change.
Read more...July 12, 2010
New Pearl Jam video benefits marine conservation efforts
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, rock band Pearl Jam is launching a new campaign to protect our oceans , building on their long history of environmental advocacy in order to rally music fans around this important cause. Along with CI, the band is working with the Gulf Restoration Network, Oceana and Greenpeace to enhance marine protection across the globe.
Read more...July 9, 2010
In the Philippines, community members come together to aid ailing fish
CI’s Global Marine program is pursuing ambitious actions to secure a sustainable future for our ocean.
Read more...July 6, 2010
Joining forces for the Mediterranean Basin
Participants at the final CEPF stakeholder meeting held at Tour du Valat in the Camargue, France gathered around Dr. Luc Hoffmann (centre wearing a red sweater). The meeting sought to agree on conservation priorities for the entire Mediterranean Basin
Read more...June 23, 2010
Alexandra Cousteau Talks to CI’s David Emmett About Tonle Sap Lake
As part of a 100-day journey exploring the planet’s most crucial freshwater systems, Alexandra Cousteau – granddaughter of Jacques and daughter of Philippe – recently caught up with CI’s own David Emmett at Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake. As regional director of our Greater Mekong program, Emmett and his team are facing threats like deforestation and dam construction as they work to maintain the lake’s ability to provide food and fresh water for more than 3 million people.
Read more...June 22, 2010
Mounting Evidence of Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems
A new study published in this week’s Science magazine reveals more evidence of the devastating impacts that climate change is wreaking on marine ecosystems across the globe. Rising ocean temperatures, acidification and other related trends are having catastrophic impacts on the marine and ocean habitats natural systems and species that form the building blocks of ecosystem health. In the words of one of the study’s authors, marine scientist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, “It’s as if the Earth has been smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.” Among the multitude of other benefits it provides for life on Earth, our ocean has already absorbed 30 percent of carbon dioxide emissions and continues to mitigate impacts of climate change.
Read more...June 19, 2010
Global Conservation Act of 2010 Introduced in U.S. Senate
As tens of thousands of gallons of oil pour into the Gulf of Mexico, the United States Senate is introducing a bill that will protect the environment. Not an energy and climate bill (not yet anyway), but the Global Conservation Act of 2010 . This Senate bill was introduced by Senator Brownback (R-KS) and Senator Udall (D-NM) and represents a significant bipartisan effort in a time of heavy partisan politics.
Read more...June 12, 2010
Biodiversity gets its vuvuzela
After my last post on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) SBSTTA meeting, I received a useful question about how we might find a common voice around the complex issues posed by conserving biodiversity. That may indeed be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to conserving our natural resources – it’s simply hard to know who to listen to! For the government representatives and other world leaders expected to make useful decisions on how to protect biodiversity, the cacophony of voices coming from scientists can be especially tricky to deal with. As a scientist who is asked to talk to non-scientists every day, I have learned to feel their pain
Read more...June 11, 2010
U.S. Senate Narrowly Defeats Murkowski Amendment: Sign of Hope, or Close Call?
Yesterday, the U.S.
Read more...June 11, 2010
Save a mile
As summer begins, you may find yourself gazing longingly out your office window and daydreaming of basking in the sun on the beach, with the lull of gentle waves in the background. Recreation (and fantasies of recreation) has long been an important service of the world’s oceans for people all over the world, but oceans also provide even more essential benefits for people every day.
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June 9, 2010
SCI Defend BLM Efforts to Manage Wild Horses in Nevada
Washington, D.C. Safari Club International (SCI) has successfully defended the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) efforts to manage wild horses in northwest Nevada. Plaintiffs, including an animal rights group, had launched attacks on BLM’s management practices in a federal lawsuit. On May 24, 2010 the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, based on [...]
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