Bioacoustics in your backyard: Q&A with conservation technologist Topher White
by Abhishyant Kidangoor Ever wondered about the furry animal you saw scurrying through your backyard? Or the bird singing outside your window? A new eco-device developed by conservation technologist Topher White aims to help you answer those questions, and bring conservation closer to home. Resembling a mini spaceship, Delta can be put up in your backyard…
Ecuador court upholds ‘rights of nature,’ blocks Intag Valley copper mine
by Liz Kimbrough Communities in the Intag Valley of Ecuador have won a significant legal victory after a court ruled to halt copper mining in one of the world’s most biodiverse forests. The Imbabura Provincial Court ruled on March 29 that Chilean copper producer Codelco and Ecuador’s Empresa Nacional Minera (ENAMI EP) had violated communities’ constitutional…
Monarch butterflies become a powerful symbol for justice at the U.S./Mexico border (commentary)
by Meg Perret Monarch butterflies could go extinct, much to the dismay of environmentalists in the U.S. and Mexico. Monarch butterfly populations in Mexico have dropped 22% in the last year, according to a new World Wildlife Fund report. Eastern monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to the U.S. and down to Mexico to spend their winters in…
What’s black and white and spins? Wind turbines that don’t kill birds
by Elizabeth Claire Alberts Picture yourself driving down a local highway, passing familiar street signs and encountering typical traffic. Then, without warning, you find a cow standing in the middle of the road. You slam on your brakes, but it’s too late to avoid a collision. Something similar happens to seabirds when they encounter wind turbines,…
Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report
by Liz Kimbrough When it comes to climate solutions, your first thought may not be the wildebeest. But in the Serengeti, these buffalo-looking antelopes are the key to carbon capture. Wildebeest eat large amounts of grass and recycle it back into the soil as dung. So when their population plummeted in the early 1900s due to…
Jashodhon Pramanik: The farmer guardian of birds in Bangladesh
by Maksuda Aziz Mr. Sobhan, a wealthy retired lawyer, decides he wants to do something to improve society. Realizing that the new aquaculture revolution has driven out local fish species, he compiles a list of species that are causing harm and goes to the appropriate government agency to voice his concern. Sadly, the officer makes fun…
After zero-poaching last year, rhino killed in Assam
By Utpal Parashar Assam last year recorded zero poaching of rhinos, which are prized for their horns that fetch big money in some countries for alleged medicinal value An adult rhino was poached and its horn removed in Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR) in the first such incident in the state after…
Alleged rhino poaching kingpin gunned down near Kruger Park
By Don Pinnock Chief Clyde Mnisi, trailing charges of murder, money laundering, illegal sale of rhino horn and racketeering, died of multiple bullet wounds near Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport near White River late Sunday night. Mnisi was recently appointed as chief of the Mnisi Tribal Authority in Bushbuckridge. Police and prosecutors allege he is one of…
To save Hainan gibbons, Earth’s rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech
by Abhishyant Kidangoor Emmanuel Dufourq had a gargantuan task at hand in mid-2019. He had the job of listening to 6,000 hours of audio data collected from Bawangling National Nature Reserve in the southern Chinese province of Hainan, thousands of miles away from his home base in Cape Town, South Africa. The audio had been collected…
As oceans warm, temperate reef species edge closer to extinction, study shows
by Elizabeth Claire Alberts Marine heat waves have led to widespread population declines of Australian shallow reef species, particularly those associated with temperate reefs, new research suggests. In a new study published in Nature, scientists draw on extensive reef survey data to assess population trends of 1,057 common shallow reef species, including fish, corals, seaweeds and invertebrates.…
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