Amazon Japan, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, pulled all whale meat products (and possibly dolphin meat) from its site after a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society International highlighted the issue. Last Decem…
02.23.2012
Categories: Cetaceans, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, happy-upbeat environmental, Home Wind Power, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine mammals, oceans, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Whaling, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Amazon Japan, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, pulled all whale meat products (and possibly dolphin meat) from its site after a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Humane Society International highlighted the issue. Last Decem…
02.23.2012
Categories: apes, borneo, environment, ex-situ conservation, film, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, Indonesia, jeremy hance, kalimantan, Mammals, orangutans, primates, rainforest, rainforest animals, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforests, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, strange, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Born to be Wild 3D, an IMAX documentary in part about the plight of orphaned and injured Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), will soon be aired in the rainforest that inspired it. Producer Drew Fellman is setting up a screen in the rainforest to scree…
02.22.2012
Categories: Agriculture, Agriculture and Farming, Costa Rica, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, Mammals, S. Amanda Caudill, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
The fieldwork is done for now, but there’s still work to be done in improving habitats at coffee farms.
02.22.2012
Categories: activism, Britain, development, England, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, jeremy hance, Mammals, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
In the classic novel, Watership Down, rabbits must flee their countryside home to make way for a new housing development. Now, the land that inspired author Richard Adams’ much-beloved mythic tale is slated to bulldozed for 2,000 new homes. Located in …
02.21.2012
Categories: Africa, Agriculture, Bushmeat, community-based conservation, conservation and poverty, conservation finance, conservation refugees, critically endangered species, deforestation, development, economics, environment, environmental economics, global warming, governance, greenhouse emissions, happy-upbeat environmental, Home Wind Power, illegal logging, in-situ conservation, interview, invertebrates, islands, jeremy hance, lemurs, Madagascar, Mammals, Parks, povery alleviation, primates, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, reforestation, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, sustainable development, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job. But with the wealth of Madagascar’s wildlife rapidly diminishing— such as lemurs, miniature chameleons, and hedge…
02.17.2012
Categories: Africa, apes, central africa, chimps, congo, Elephants, environment, global warming, gorillas, greenhouse emissions, happy-upbeat environmental, Home Wind Power, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, Mammals, Parks, primates, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, rainforests, Republic of the Congo, saving rainforests, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
The Republic of the Congo has expanded its Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park by 37,295 hectares (144 square miles) to include a dense swamp forest, home to a population of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) that show no fear of humans. Known as the Goualougo Tr…
02.17.2012
Categories: borneo, Elephants, environment, forests, Fragmentation, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, in-situ conservation, islands, jeremy hance, logging, Malaysia, Mammals, plantations, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, southeast asia, technology and conservation, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Forest fragmentation and destruction is imperiling the Bornean elephant (Elephas maximus borneensis), according to a new paper published in PLoS ONE. Using satellite collars to track the pachyderms for the first time in the Malaysian state of Sabah, sc…
02.16.2012
Categories: biodiversity, Costa Rica, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, Home Wind Power, Mammals, S. Amanda Caudill, Science and Technology, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Understanding habitat parameters is critical to figuring out why some coffee farms have greater mammal biodiversity than others.
02.16.2012
Categories: bangladesh, bycatch, Cetaceans, critically endangered species, environment, global warming, greenhouse emissions, happy-upbeat environmental, Home Wind Power, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, Mammals, marine mammals, overfishing, protected areas, Rivers, Solar Power, Solar Power Generation, Wind Power, Wind Power Generation | Add a Comment
Bangladesh has declared three new sanctuaries to help protect the south Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. Split into two subspecies, the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangeti…
