Tag Archives : endangered species

Some time back president of Kyrgyzstan was removed from his office as he has had a private Zoo in his home. Yes, the president has no soft spot for animals and treats them as a source of entertainment .He fled to Belarus after the incident. Once he was ousted, it was shocking to see the ex-leaders private home. He was living in a luxury of a private [...]

Because tuna has been a staple food to some, while a much-coveted delicacy to others, the world has now reached the point of peak tuna. The species has been overfished beyond the point of any sustainability. Tuna populations have greatly dwindled to a dismal 15 percent of its original numbers. Blame this on the pricey status of this fleshy and fatty [...]

Climate change and the attempt to resolve the problems that have come up because of drastic changes in the environment have been topmost in people’s mind for quite some time now. Many people had thought that a definite solution would turn up at the recent conference on global climate change at Copenhagen but it ended quite disappointingly. Something [...]

The story in the St. Louis Today was not so much about the Polar Bears but about how the festive season is bringing new business opportunities to the city, but the picture in the paper that came attached tells a whole different tale. The zoo at St. Louis has tried its luck with keeping polar bears several times in the past and unfortunately for the [...]

Many find the global discussion of deforestation a tired one, most especially with those who cannot directly relate to this particular environmental malaise. Much less is their capacity to correlate deforestation with worldwide carbon emissions. Fact is ‘deforestation accounts for 20%-25% of worldwide carbon emissions, whereas the global transportation [...]

World Wild Life Fund, Brazil has shifted campaign from saving endangered species like Panda and many others, saving forests to saving a single tree and reef! The two ads in the campaign ‘Tree’ and ‘Reef’ depict life supported by a single tree and a reef. The message in the ads asks one to imagine how much life forest and an Ocean can support. DDB [...]

The animals that depend on the polar sea ice are threatened by global warming. This is one of the more immediate adverse impacts of climate change. This is also one of the more important points of reference contained in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Like many other polar species, the emperor penguin thrives [...]