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2010-02-08

Actualitiés News Environnement, 2010-02-08
Des étudiants engagés pour le respect de l’environnement. Un réseau d'étudiants de Montpellier souhaite offrir à l'ensemble des étudiants une nourriture de qualité en créant et fédérant une restauration collective bio locale et de saison universitaire avec tous les avantages que cela représente pour la santé et l’environnement.
Washington Post, 2010-02-08
NOVA CANAA DO NORTE, Brazil -- Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its best defender.
Agriculture and Biodiversity
Reuters, 2010-02-08
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The dream of turning Australia's tropical north into a major food bowl to replace drought-stricken southern farmlands and feed a future Asia has been shattered by a new report released on Monday.
Actualitiés News Environnement, 2010-02-08
Le rêve consistant à transformer le nord tropical de l’Australie en une grande réserve alimentaire pour remplacer le sud frappé par la sécheresse et nourrir la future Asie a été anéanti par un nouveau rapport publié lundi.
Guardian (UK), 2010-02-08
Nomadic herders who move their cattle ceaselessly across some of the harshest environments in the world in search of grazing land are vital for Africa's economic prosperity, but their way of life is being undermined by governments, conservationists and large-scale farmers, according to a study.
Cities and Biodiversity
La Presse (Canada), 2010-02-08
Reed, élève de 9 ans, sort un devoir de son sac. Durant le week-end, il devait compter le nombre...
Endangered Species
2010-02-08
Taking turns to act as human ploughs, Liang Jianmin and his tiger survey team forge through mile after mile of knee-deep snow in the mountain forests near China's frozen mountain border with Siberia.
Reuters, 2010-02-08
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left living in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the bleak northeast are starting to pay off, a conservationist said on Monday.
Scientific American, 2010-02-08
Poor water quality and habitat loss are driving Ireland's terrestrial and freshwater snails, along with related species into extinction, according to new research by the National Biodiversity Data Center (NBDC), a three-year-old organization established to study that country's biodiversity.
Marine and Coastal Biodiversity
Mongabay.com, 2010-02-08
A new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) finds that almost 9 out of 10 toothed whales—including dolphins and porpoises—are threatened by entanglement and subsequent drowning from large-scale fishing operations equipment, such as gillnets, traps, longlines, and trawls.
Spiegel (Germany), 2010-02-08
Thousands of tons of trash are thrown into the sea each year, endangering humans and wildlife.
Protected Areas / In-Situ Conservation
La Presse (Canada), 2010-02-08
Des écologistes louangent la création d'un gigantesque parc national dans le Labrador qui...

2010-02-05

International Year of Biodiversity - 2010
Science and Development Network, 2010-02-05
Communicating why biodiversity loss matters for people is essential for reversing it.
South Delta Leader (Canada), 2010-02-05
At a time when much of the world’s wildlife is at risk of extinction from human activities, it is opportune that 2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity, a time to celebrate the beauty and profusion of life on this planet.
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor (UK), 2010-02-05
Bristol, UK - Bristol Zoo Gardens has announced the top 10 ‘at risk’ species at the Zoo, which it is working hard to protect in the wild.
Actualitiés News Environnement, 2010-02-05
Devant l’urgence de sensibiliser la société aux enjeux liés à l’érosion de la biodiversité et souhaite mobiliser l’ensemble des collectivités locales, des entreprises, des ONG, des citoyens, dans le cadre de l’année internationale pour la Biodiversité, Mme Chantal JOUANNO, Secrétaire d’Etat chargée de l’écologie, a trouver un très bon moyen pour faire passe le message.
La Presse (Canada), 2010-02-05
L'humain est responsable d'un taux d'extinction des espèces vivantes jusqu'à 1000 fois plus élevé que le taux naturel, et près d'un quart de toutes les espèces vivantes pourrait disparaître d'ici le milieu du siècle.
Liverpool Echo (UK), 2010-02-05
WORLD leaders must consider their decisions on biodiversity in the same way that the international community is finding a way of pricing carbon, the environment secretary, Hilary Benn, has said.
Climate Change
Canadian Press (Canada), 2010-02-05
OTTAWA — Poor countries are still gripped by the food crisis of two years ago and climate change will only make things tougher in the coming years, says the head of Canadian International Development Agency.
Mongabay (India), 2010-02-05
It was any birders dream come true: not only to see one of the world's rarest birds, but to discover a new unknown population. Israeli birder, Shachar Alterman, was surveying birds with the UK organization Neotropical Primate Conservation in Peruvian cloud forest when he heard and then saw the long whiskered owlet.
Le Soleil (Canada), 2010-02-05
(Québec) Après la malbouffe dans les cafétérias, des écoles secondaires s'attaquent maintenant... à la vaisselle. Une grande majorité d'élèves de la région mangent toujours dans des assiettes jetables, mais, timidement, quelques écoles prennent le virage vert.
El Mundo, 2010-02-05
Pale Male y Lola ya no están solos. A los famosos halcones de cola roja de la Quinta Avenida les están saliendo competidores por toda la ciudad. El último censo habla de 32 parejas.
Environmental News Network, 2010-02-05
Up to now, the more than 28 desalination plants scattered around the Kingdom have had to rely of fossil fuel, most notably fuel oil, to provide to power to run the equipment used to extract salt and other minerals from sea water.
SciDev.net, 2010-02-05
[KIGALI] Climbing beans suited to rainy high-altitude areas are being distributed in Rwanda after a decade of research.
Agence France-Presse, 2010-02-05
Shi Zhongdong, patron de l'entreprise du Vaillant Cheval, ne jure que par une seule monture: le vélo électrique. Ce vélo qu'il exporte, y compris désormais vers l'Europe et ses normes exigeantes, «c'est l'avenir, c'est pratique, c'est propre, c'est économique».
Endangered Species
El Mundo, 2010-02-05
El atún rojo (Thunnus thynnus) tiene el próximo mes de marzo una última oportunidad para esquivar su desaparición tras el fracaso de la reunión de la Comisión Internacional para la Conservación del Atún Atlántico (ICCAT) el pasado mes de noviembre en Recife (Brasil).
BBC News, 2010-02-05
As we pull into Toyohira, an unusual and unexpected welcome committee is lined up ready to receive us.
Actualitiés News Environnement, 2010-02-05
C’est fait, la France s’est enfin prononcée sur le classement du Thon Rouge en Annexe I du CITES (Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d’extinction) à Doha du 13 au 25 mars qui doit débattre de l’avenir de l’espèce et de sa pêche.
UN News Centre, 2010-02-05
4 February 2010 – Large-scale fishing operations are seriously threatening the lives of the majority of toothed whale populations, which include dolphins and porpoises, warned a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today.
Forest Biodiversity
Mongabay (India), 2010-02-05
The European Union may be planning to classify oil palm plantations as forests, raising fears among environmental groups of expanded conversion of tropical rainforests for biofuel production, reports the EUobserver, which cites a leaked document from the European Commission.