Tag Archives : biodiversity

The bad news is that an increasing number of birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and mammals have moved closer to extinction. The good news is that the number could be worse were it not for the conservation measures put in place around the world in recent decades. It was analyzed data from vertebrates, including more than 25 000 species in the Red List [...]

The artists at London Fieldworks have developed an innovative bird housing concept. They are calling it “The Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven”. It opened recently as part of the Secret Garden Project by UP Projects. It is hoped that this initiative will develop into a haven of biodiversity and create a new public awareness of the ecological [...]

Project Censored whose mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society” comes up with its Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010. For reasons exclusively known to them, mainstream media censored or downplayed these significant pieces of news. Here are some of them. You are free to form your own opinion [...]

Madagascar owns one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots. In some of the country’s protected areas, organized groups engaged in illegal logging have been felling ‘valuable rosewood trees and extracting other resources’ mostly from the Marojejy National Park and Masoala National Park. To prove that illegal logging, a major cause [...]

The conservation of wild lands is well documented and neatly archived in history. Eviction of indigenous people from their homeland in the wild for the sake of conservation is only found in collective memory and oral history. Through a hundred years, indigenous people have often been seen by conservationists as a problem, and the solution has always [...]

For at least five miles, one can witness different intertwining plants, trees, creepers, ferns, mosses, and orchids that seem to be in a perpetual struggle for light and life. A tiny hummingbird nest holds an egg about to hatch and a baby already born. Bats fluff their wings while under the shelter of a giant leaf. A big black tarantula with orange [...]

An ‘e-Biosphere’ summit, organized by Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) which is based at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, will be held on June 1-3 in London. Approximately 400 personalities and authorities in the fields of biology and technology coming from 50 countries will discuss about the plans to design and compile an ‘Internet-based [...]

Forest fires that cause deforestation and habitat loss are also responsible for 20% of carbon dioxide emissions. It is a phenomenon that feeds global warming. Fire and climate are a tandem that goes back at least 400 million years, since plants began to colonize the Earth. It used to be that forest fires resulted from natural phenomena such as lightning [...]

In the research entitled “Primate species richness is determined by plant productivity: Implications for conservation” by Richard F. Kay. Richard H. Madden, Carel Van Schaik, and David Higdon, biodiversity is said to occur when the worlds of fauna and flora co-exist productively on the planet. Natural habitats where plants are most productive are [...]

The destruction of animal and plant species in the rainforest has been rapid. The loss is permanent. According to the German environmental organization OroVerde, three different types of animal and plant life are made extinct every hour. The biggest killer of the rainforest is man. The ecosystem is disturbed and biodiversity destroyed with the incursion [...]