conservation

Flooding farm fields helping birds and farmers

From the Nature Conservancy - info on what seems a worthwhile project:

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at The Nature Conservancy’s Farming for Wildlife project in the Skagit River Delta. Here, the Conservancy works with farmers to flood parts of their fields with fresh water, creating new or improved habitat for shorebirds, while at the same time improving the soil.

Failing on environmental issues

Big, well written op-ed on mongabay,com includes:

Sundarbans tigers and sea level rise

From WWF news release:

Conservationists wrong to exaggerate threats

Interesting article in the Ecologist, inc on green groups going too far in public relations efforts, which are well-intentioned, but can use ridiculously over-the-top claims. Includes:

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Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, claims a new report

Monoculture plantations not the way to combat warming

Op-ed piece in New York Times, by Bernhd Heinrich, says if forests are to help combat climate change, they must be varied, not just simple plantations. Includes:

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our current plans to shift to green energy — centered on so-called carbon offsets and cap-and-trade systems — are in some applications sorely misguided.

Carbon payments can protect wildlife

Press release from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

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JAKARTA (5 June 2009)—A new report published today provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants, and other wildlife at risk of extinction. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters, is one of the first to offer quantitative evidence linking the drive to reduce carbon emissions from forests with the push to preserve threatened mammal biodiversity.
 
“Our study clearly demonstrates that payments made to reduce carbon emissions from forests could also be an efficient and effective way to protect biodiversity,” said Oscar Venter, a biologist at the University of Queensland in Australia and the study’s lead author. “We now need to see policy discussions catch up with the science, because at the moment the potential co-benefits of linking forest protection to biodiversity are not getting the attention they deserve.”

Beidaihe Can Create Exciting Bird Reserve

I believe that at Beidaihe, we have the chance to create the world’s most exiting reserve for migratory birds.

No sharks to see in Hong Kong

Another day, another tantrum - but could it be an attempt to spread word re shark conservation?

No shark fin soup

After the woman missed her flight at HKIA, comes a lady who's a tad upset at missing her shark fin soup.

Indonesia Agrees to Protect Sumatran Forests

Press release from WWF; great news - but just hope that conservation really happens - especially given call for international support, and the current dire condition of global economy:

Bushmeat trade should be controlled not banned

from CIFOR:

South China tiger named King Henry

From Save China's Tigers (re tiger sub-species covered in an article on this site):

Openbill Storks

Visits to openbill stork colonies in Thailand

TCM and Conservation

Traditional Chinese Medicine and conservation

Taman Negara rainforest, Malaysia

Taman Negara - rainforest national park in Malaysia

Panda expert Pan Wenshi

Creeping through a bamboo forest in the Qin Ling Mountains of China's Shaanxi province, Peking University zoologist Pan Wenshi and his assistant Lu Zhi are about to witness a sight rarely seen in the wild: a giant panda mother and her newborn cub.

Turtle Park, Malaysia

Green turtle conservation on Pulau Selingaan, Sabah, Malaysia

Black-faced Spoonbill

Birders though Black-faced Spoonbill was common, till they found it was almost extinct.

Biofuels imperilling the planet in the name of saving it

From good article in Time:

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Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; ... This land rush is being accelerated by an unlikely source: biofuels. An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to record highs, which is spurring a dramatic expansion of Brazilian agriculture, which is invading the Amazon at an increasingly alarming rate. ...

Forest Conservation in Indonesian Borneo

I'm visiting Borneo to learn about the deforestation and its impacts on wildlife and human lives. And to meet people working to save the remaining forests of Borneo, which was described by the great 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin as, "One great untidy luxuriant hothouse made by nature for herself."

Saving Yunnan snub-nosed monkey

Xi Zhinong - helping save Yunnan snub-nosed monkey

Gurney's Pitta in Thailand

Gurney's Pitta back from oblivion

South China tiger

Hunting and habitat destruction have brought these magnificent cats perilously close to extinction. Can the most threatened of the sub-species claw its way back?

Conservation Plan for Beidaihe

A conservation plan for Beidaihe, China

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