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#1319512021-11-26
Wild Wild Life newsletter: How you can 'do your bit' for wildlife
Here are four lifestyle changes that actually do make a difference for biodiversity.
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#1319562021-11-26
FEATURED: IPRC-Kitabi launches human rights and conservation module
The Integrated Polytechnic Regional College (IPRC) Kitabi has launched a new module in the courses dubbed “Human Rights and Conservation” with the aim to integrate human rights principles in conservation.
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#1319892021-11-30
15 things biodiversity protectors are watching out for in 2022
What can we do to reduce future harm? One big thing is to identify emerging threats and opportunities to protect biodiversity and proactively shape policies and actions to prevent harm early on.
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#1320412021-12-03
7 of the funniest animal photos ever taken: The best of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2021
The annual competition winners were announced on the BBC's One Show with Ken Jensen taking first prize for his astounding snap of a monkey in the Longsheng Gorge, China, titled 'Ouch!'
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#1320472021-12-03
Santa swims with sharks at Budapest aquarium
An aquarium in Budapest, Hungary set out to spread Christmas cheer for their four sharks, various fish and customers by dressing their divers as Santas. Divers also installed a small Christmas tree at the bottom of the 1.4 million liter aquarium and decorated it with shells.
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#1321232021-12-09
Filipino youth urged to become ‘agents of change’ for biodiversity, climate stability
Recognizing that children are the greatest champions in gaining more knowledge and discovering innovative solutions to address climate change, the Department of Education (DepEd) encouraged stewardship for biodiversity and stable climate among the Filipino youth.
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#1321142021-12-09
Digitizing the Natural History Museum London's entire collection could contribute over £2 billion to the global economy
The societal benefits of digitizing natural history collections extends to global advancements in food security, biodiversity conservation, medicine discovery, minerals exploration, and beyond. Brand new, rigorous economic report predicts investing in digitizing natural history museum collection ...
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#1321352021-12-10
Earth Is Getting a ‘Black Box’ to Hold Humans Accountable for Climate Change
When a plane crashes, its flight recorder is critical to piecing together the missteps that led to calamity. Now the planet is getting its own in case it self-destructs.
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#1321772021-12-15
First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra
The Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, one of the country’s most ecologically and culturally significant waterways, is facing proposals of further agriculture and mining development, including irrigation and fracking.
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#1321962021-12-16
Bird songs bump stars off Australian music chart
An album made up entirely of the tweets and squawks of endangered Australian birds has debuted in the top five of the country's Aria music charts.
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#1322302021-12-20
Ganapati Hegde’s latest artwork, Into The Forest, represents the pandemic and celebrates nature using birds and animals
The pandemic may have pushed many to learn something new but artiste Ganapati Hegde used his time to observe and reflect on the lifestyle it created using art. His new collection of paintings called ‘Into The Forest’ is now live on the website of art gallery Kynkyny.
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#1322562021-12-21
Climate change news coverage reached all-time high, language to describe it shifting
United States news coverage of climate change reached an all-time high in October and November, according to recent data from the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO), an international, multi-university collaboration based at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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#1322592021-12-21
More than 150,000 Europeans call on EU to ban bottom-trawling to protect ocean and climate
A giant colourful pop-up book depicting the devastation caused by destructive bottom trawling - and how the marine environment thrives in its absence - was delivered to European Union (EU) Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius by NGOs this morning, on behalf of more than 150,000 Europeans who have ...
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#1323262022-01-06
About Town: LEGOs become art in 'Nature POP!' at Mounts Botanical Garden
Ever play with LEGO bricks as a kid? I did and thought I was pretty creative with them. I had a blast making everything from animals, to bridges, to cars, airplanes, rockets, robots and more.
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#1323362022-01-06
Wildlife Conservation Society Creates 90-foot-long Painting to Promote Awareness on Migratory Shorebirds
In an amalgamation of art, conservation and science, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and partners from a small community on Guatemala's Pacific Coast recently unveiled an innovative tool to raise awareness about migratory shorebirds—a 90-foot-long, nine-foot-tall mural.
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#1323572022-01-07
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a murmuration of starlings, sea turtle hatchlings and a snake in the grass
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#1323922022-01-11
Climate change communication should focus less on specific numbers
What’s in a number? The goals of the 2021 United Nations’ climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, called for nations to keep a warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius “within reach.” But when it comes to communicating climate change to the public, some scientists worry that too much emphasis on a spec ...
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#1324472022-01-12
The Green Planet live stream: how to watch the new BBC David Attenborough nature series from anywhere
The Green Planet – David Attenborough's latest BBC natural history series – has been called "gobsmacking" and "awe-inspiring". From the world's deadliest flower to the 1000-year-old tropical trees, The Green Planet shows you things no eye has ever seen.
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#1324482022-01-12
Patricia Zurita on nature, climate and Don’t Look Up!
I gather many others have criticised the film because they found the allegory connecting an imminent comet destroying earth with the climate crisis to be inaccurate or tortured. To be honest, I find this a bit ridiculous, and it feeds my frustration.
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#1325812022-01-18
‘Central African Forests Forever’: Meindert Brouwer’s book looks to solutions
According to communications consultant Meindert Brouwer, author of Central African Forests Forever, there are still opportunities to save the Central African — or Congo Basin — rainforest.
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#1327472022-01-25
‘Evolve’ host Patrick Aryee talks squid glue, biomimicry and environmental ethics
By 2050, it is thought that two-thirds of the world’s population might be facing a scarcity of fresh, potable water. That’s a crisis that extends beyond the poorest, developing countries, but it is also one that “speaks to our ethics and what our responsibilities are to each other,” says Patrick ...
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#1327872022-01-28
Language bias harms conservation efforts
The former director of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Asad Rahmani, recently emailed a group of scientists about the type of terminology used in popular and scientific writing, and how it skews the public’s impression about wildlife and natural processes.
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#1328182022-01-31
Art that draws attention to the endangered animal species in India
In 2020, India’s leading luxury design house Good Earth created their first-ever limited- edition art prints wherein the flora and fauna were depicted as reclaiming their rightful place in nature.
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#1328502022-02-01
Wetlands - the Unsung Heroes of the Planet #AfricaClimateCrisis
Wetlands, which include marshes and peatlands, are the unsung heroes of the climate crisis. They store more carbon than any other ecosystem, with peatlands alone storing twice as much as all the world's forests.
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#1328522022-02-01
World Wetlands Day: Wetlands, ‘kidneys of the earth’
World Wetlands Day is celebrated on 2nd of February every year to commemorate the day on which the Convention on Wetlands was adopted in the year 1971. The main purpose of celebrating this day is to promote the conservation and wise use of wetlands.
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#1329552022-02-04
Sale of animal-linked NFTs raises conservation funds for South African reserve
Tlalamba, a four-year-old leopard, has achieved much in her short life. She's queen of her mother's old territory, borne two cubs and, so far, is the most sought-after animal on her reserve among buyers of a new project selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to raise money for conservation.
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#1331122022-02-11
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including dancing Siberian cranes, a snowy cat and a lonely black-footed ferret.
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#1331302022-02-11
Teaching key to better ocean protection, says UNESCO chief
“If we want to protect the ocean better, we must teach it better”, said Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s Director-General, speaking at the One Ocean Summit, taking place in the French city of Brest
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#1331902022-02-15
The Boreal Forests Have a Warning for Us
Treeline, a new book by Ben Rawlence, explains how climate change is causing far-reaching shifts in one of our most important ecosystems.
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#1332852022-02-17
Speed Dating with the Future, a Romance with Science and Biodiversity
In a busy world where love is a complicated affair, speed dating is one way to connect, but can it work to ignite more sustainable relationships with nature? Are we open to a romance with science and evidence?
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#1332862022-02-17
Why we need biodiversity on our dinner plates – and why it’s disappearing
In the early 70s, American botanist Jack Harlan proclaimed that mass extinction was underway in America’s fields.
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#1333232022-02-18
Tata Steel : Foundation's ‘The Green School' showcases its milestones on climate change front at the World Sustainable Development Summit 2022
The Green School, a joint initiative of Tata Steel Foundation and TERI, participated in the ongoing World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) to showcase its work on climate change related issues and the various milestones achieved over the years.
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#1333462022-02-18
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a patient great tit, a hungry lemur, and a lucky escape for one humpback whale
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#1334462022-02-23
Fiji gets to tell its own climate story in new books for children
Suva, Fiji – A disposable mask flies out of an overflowing bin that hasn’t been shut properly; in the course of one night it encounters a seagull, a whale and a school of sleeping fish who fervently attempt to chase it out of their homes – afraid it might kill them, just like so many other scary ...
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#1334492022-02-23
Why is ocean literacy key to protecting our marine ecosystems?
Ocean travels to Malta and the Netherlands to meet the enthusiasts attempting to raise public awareness about the health of our seas and the marine environment. Facebook
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#1335222022-02-25
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including firefall, rock goats and a pack of grey wolves
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#1336132022-03-01
Japan nonprofit creates endangered animal Line stickers to raise awareness
An environmental nonprofit organization based in this eastern Japan city has created endangered animal stickers for the Line free messaging app to raise awareness about the creatures ahead of World Wildlife Day on March 3.
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#1336252022-03-02
World Wildlife Day 2022: Date, Theme, History And Significance Of The Day That Celebrates Diversity Of Life On The Planet
The innumerable forms of animals and plants that live in the wild have an incalculable value as they play a major role in ecological, cultural, scientific, social, and aesthetic aspects of human well-being. World Wildlife Day is an annual observance that is celebrated on March 3 every year to pr ...
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#1336262022-03-02
World Wildlife Day celebrated in Kenya
Two lions are seen at the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, Aug. 30, 2021. The World Wildlife Day, which is marked annually on March 3 to raise the awareness on the world's wild animals and plants, is celebrated under the theme "Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration" this year.
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#1336272022-03-02
Expo 2020 Dubai to celebrate World Wildlife Day with experts at Terra auditorium
Dubai: Expo 2020 Dubai will celebrate World Wildlife Day tomorrow with a dedicated event comprising top conservationists, scientists and activists from across the world, shining a spotlight on local, regional and global efforts to preserve, protect and save endangered species, while inspiring si ...
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#1336282022-03-02
Free admission to biodiversity museums on World Wildlife Day
Visiting the museums of natural history and biodiversity all over the country is free, due to its unique role and importance in introducing and displaying valuable species, in addition to making people aware of the value of biodiversity conservation and ecosystems.
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#1336342022-03-02
Plastic fantastic: show highlighting art made from marine waste to open this week
A temporary art exhibition designed to highlight plastic waste in the seas is to open this week. A Plastic Ocean, on show at the former Dog House bar on Hamilton’s Front Street, will feature works created from marine plastic waste by a range of island artists and schoolchildren.
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#1336422022-03-02
We’re on the hunt for young nature lovers – do you know any?
Spring is on its way, and Young Country Diary is once again open for submissions. Every three months we ask you to send us a piece about the natural world, written by a child aged 8-14.
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#1338732022-03-31
The Weight of Water - The Human Cost of Climate Change
This film tells three stories of people suffering from the dramatic consequences of climate change. Their Nepalese communities are already being affected by floods and drought.
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#1339062022-03-31
French Artist Creates an Eye-Opening Depiction of What The World Will Look Like Post Climate Change
Fabien Barrau is a French photographer and digital artist who uses his art to call attention to the devastating effects of climate change Barrau uses his drone and Photoshop skills to make images of what famous architectural landmarks will look like after the looming climate crisis..
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#1339462022-04-06
Pinterest bans climate change misinformation and conspiracy theories
Social media companies including Pinterest, an image-based platform that went public in 2019, have been under increasing pressure to curb harmful misinformation on their sites, though some lawmakers and users criticize tech platforms as overreaching in their content rules.
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#1340022022-04-12
Nature does not care
I worry, sometimes, that knowledge is falling out of fashion – that in the field in which I work, nature writing, the multitudinous nonfictions of the more-than-human world, facts have been devalued; knowing stuff is no longer enough.
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#1340962022-04-18
A cracking selection of eggs in nature – in pictures
Whether we’re eating them or decorating them, there is no doubt that eggs play a prominent role in Easter activities. The environmental organisation WWF has carried out its own Easter egg hunt in its photo library and created a gallery of weird and wonderful eggs found in the natural world, from ...
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#1340982022-04-18
‘We’re running out of time’: Dan Saladino on why the loss of diversity in our foods matters
Dan Saladino is a journalist and presenter of the weekly Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 where he’s been reporting on food and agriculture for the past 15 years.
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#1341242022-04-20
Once You Know review – must-watch essay on climate change that tells us it’s already here
Most climate-change documentaries sound pre-emptive warnings about the consequences if we fail to take action. But this essential cine-essay by Emmanuel Cappellin – a former cinematographer for Yann-Arthus Bertrand – instead takes as its starting point the idea that all is already lost.