Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also the ecological systems that make life on Earth possible. By doing this we are now accelerating the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history and virtually eliminating any prospect of human survival, writes ROBERT J BURROWES
Ecologist Special Report: Biological Annihilation on Earth is Accelerating Robert J. Burrowes | 1st August 2017 News Extinction Ecology Planetary Boundary Science Survival Conservation extinction.jpg …
For years the 'market mantra' has been to save forests by selling the carbon they embody, writes Chris Lang, harnessing the profit motive for the benefit of trees and climate. But it never worked, and now even former fans are admitting that REDD is just another failed conservation fad. So what next? How about asking local communities to manage their forests as commons?
… as commons? A new paper in Conservation Biology starts with the following sentence: … builds on a 2013 editorial in Conservation Biology that identifies REDD as a conservation …
Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle deforestation assumes that a tonne of tree carbon is the same as a tonne of fossil carbon?
All carbon is not born equal Eric Marx | 17th November 2009 News Climate Change Natural World Redd Deforestation Forests Trees oiltree.jpg Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle …
Surging Chinese demand for rosewood used in 'hongmu' furniture is ruining forests across southern Asia, writes Zuzana Burivalova. As demand surges, China must impose stricter regulations and harsher punishments or the forests may never recover.
The rosewood massacre - China must act Zuzana Burivalova | 23rd July 2014 Comment China Vietnam Myanmar Cambodia Forests Trade Wildlife Crime ming-hongmu-cut.jpg Antique furniture like this Ming era …
The world we inhabit is a miracle of billions of years of evolution as life has unfolded in its full beauty and diversity, writes Grant A. Mincy. But human activities - deforestation, mining, urbanisation, pollution, climate change - are tearing away at the functioning fabric of the living biosphere. A mass extinction is under way, and it must be halted, and reversed. But how?
… expert in the field of conservation biology, has published a landmark study in the … environmental groups deploy conservation biology, natural resource management, … in Knoxville, Tennessee where he teaches both Biology and Geology at area colleges. Support …
Deep in rural Sussex at Wakehurst Place, in a large nature reserve of 500 acres of National Trust woodlands and lakes, stands the Kew Gardens Biological Research Centre. Sixty feet beneath is a nuclear bunker. This is the British National Doomsday vault, home to the UK’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB). If apocalyptic disaster strikes, this bunker will hold key bio-scientists and all remaining plant life.
Banking on food Dan Marcus | 1st November 2007 News Food Bank UK The Millenium Seed Bank Conservationism Conservation Diversity Food Security Conservation Food And Farming Society investigates.jpg …
Scientists are calling for the urgent protection of ecologically valuable roadless areas, writes Tim Radford, as a new global map shows that roads lead to loss of biodiversity and damage to ecosystems by fragmenting habitat and providing access to exploiters.
… in the Public Library of Science journal Biology that it should be possible to devise a … between Google, the Society for Conservation Biology, and Member of the European Parliament …
Colombia is now closer than ever to finding a peaceful resolution to generations of violence. With so much to gain in a post-conflict world - as much for the Colombian people as for their environment - the sudden prospect of losing it all will make for tense months ahead writes FOREST RAY
Ecologist Special Report: Ecological Conservation in Post-Conflict Colombia Forest Ray | 10th February 2017 News Colombia Conservation Conflict Ecological Restoration Biodiversity hillsidevillage …
Large areas of forest remain around the world, writes David Edwards, but many of them are - in biological terms - dying on their feet as their species diversity erodes due to fragmentation. To conserve the full richness of our forests, we must keep them entire and unbroken, and rebuild the continuity of forest islands.
To forestall a mass extinction, fight forest fragmention David Edwards | 24th March 2015 Comment Forests Conservation Biodiversity road-amazon-cut.jpg Large areas of forest remain around the world, …
The Center for Biological Diversity has launched a new Wolf Defense Fun to help protect wolves in the wild
Reward Offered to help catch and convict wolf pup poachers 22nd June 2016 Activism Wolves Conservation Poaching Wildlife wolf pups.jpg The Center for Biological Diversity has launched a new Wolf …
A 'microbat' that has remained unrecorded since 1890 has been discovered in Papua New Guinea. But with the country's forests under growing pressure from logging and for conversion to plantations, this and thousands of other biological treasures are at risk.
… over time. Not enough is known about the biology of microbats throughout the world, and …
The struggle to save the Los Cedros Forest Reserve in Ecuador from mining will set huge precedent for biodiversity protections.
Saving Los Cedros is 'case of the century' Rebekah Hayden | 26th November 2020 | News Los Cedros Mining Ecuador Rights Of Nature Forest Conservation Los Cedros Forest Reserve. Photo: Rainforest …
Tropical forests are valuable for their biodiversity, carbon and water functions even after logging. But they are also highly vulnerable to fire and conversion to other uses. A new focus is needed on saving tropical forests after the bulldozers have left.
After the chainsaws - tropical forests are still worth saving Bill Laurance David Edwards | 11th April 2014 Comment Forests logging-truck-kalimantan.png Tropical forests are valuable for their …
Yellowstone's Grizzly bears are facing multiple threats, writes Anna Taylor - from proposals to remove their protection under the US Endangered Species Act, and shortages of key foods caused by climate change.
… issues and new discoveries in conservation biology. She posts regular blogs on … and the Amazon. She has a BSc in Conservation Biology and a Masters in Ecology and Environmental Biology. Delisting would leave grizzly bears …
New research shows that biochar in soil strongly stimulates plant growth, more than doubling yields. However the extra growth may come at the cost of reduced plant defences against pests.
… are published in the journal Global Change Biology Bioenergy . The scientists, led by …
Limiting climate change is just the start of what we need to do to forestall a runaway cascade of species extinctions, write Bill Laurance & Paul Ehrlich. We must also reverse the destruction and fragmentation of key wildlife habitats, constrain our over-consumption of natural resources, stabilise human numbers - and elect leaders determined to prioritise these issues.
… debt Everything we know about conservation biology tells us that species whose … Ehrlich is President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, …
International judges today condemned China's great 'water grab' of the South China Sea - not least for its destruction of over 100 sq.km of pristine coral reefs, dredged and ground up to build artificial islands, and the ransacking of their wildlife, from endangered sea turtles to giant clams.
… by three independent experts on coral reef biology and the Philippines' own expert …