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A Wake Up Call indeed: total weight of wild mammals less than 10% of humanity’s.
This outlines the total urgency for stronger species and habitat protection, and initiatives to reverse this, including #rewilding
Last night the world agreed a treaty to protect 30% of the world's oceans. This is a historic breakthrough, the biggest ever international biodiversity agreement. Congratulations and huge gratitude to many friends who have worked for years and years to make this happen.
"too many Canadian banks and pension funds are failing to show the foresight and determination that their shareholders – and citizens – should expect"
This article explains how bioenergy - often seen as 'green' energy - contributes to air pollutuon, and what you can do about it if you live near a bioenergy facility
http://bit.ly/3Y5LHLc
A sign of change in the Amazon? Brazil pushes illegal miners out of Yanomami territory http://bit.ly/3XGQkeR
ALTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Armed government officials with Brazil's justice, Indigenous and environment ministries pressed illegal gold miners out of Yanomami Indigenous territory Wednesday, citing widespread river contamination, famine and disease they have brought to one of the most isolated groups in the world.
It's Superb Owl Sunday!🦉
Here's a Spectacled Owl, they live in tropical forests of central and south America. I met this one a year ago in Mbaracayú, Paraguay.
Photo by Oscar Rodríguez
This is for the bird-nerds among you, some really good news about the Hooded Grebes in Patagonia:
They are on the brink of extinction, but the first chick to been born in 4 years arrived last week.. and more are on the way...
Full story here https://bit.ly/3RnBjg7
Key to stopping Amazon deforestation: Indigenous people. This new study shows that only 5% of deforestation occurs in Indigenous territories and protected areas
http://bit.ly/3Y3CO5C
This is alarming - new research shows that more than 90% of Verra's rainforest offset credits – among the most commonly used by companies – are likely to be “phantom credits” and do not represent genuine carbon reductions.
http://bit.ly/3IYlpXx
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