The impacts of 'eco-tourism' - The Ecologist
WEBJan 18, 2019 — The eco-tourism movement has continued to impact where people choose to spend their vacations. Eco-tourism serves to promote increased environmental awareness, sustainable communities, cultural experiences and environmental preservation and conservation. Yet the inherent nature of tourism demands that there be developments, which haven't always ...
Survival of world's largest butterfly no longer dependent on a …
WEBSep 27, 2017 — Survival of world's largest butterfly no longer dependent on a wing and a prayer. A local landowner with a female Ornithoptera alexandrae (c) Eddie Malaisa. The Queen Alexandra's Birdwing - or Ornithoptera alexandrae - is the world's largest and most spectacular butterfly. But it is under threat from encroaching agriculture and logging.
The failures of animal testing - The Ecologist
WEBMar 29, 2021 — Killed. A 2019 Ipsos MORI report revealed a growing shift in attitudes towards animal experiments in the UK with two thirds of those surveyed concerned about the use of animals in research, and more people disagreeing with the use of dogs (86 percent against), monkeys (86 percent against) and …
Should governments take more responsibility for the environment?
WEBMay 8, 2018 — Global reach. Many people are arguing for governments to take more responsibility for the environment. While there’s always an opposing side, there are some good reasons to hold the government to higher levels of accountability regarding climate change. Read on for some reasons governments can make a bigger impact if they take more action to ...
Rising pollution is endangering species - The Ecologist
WEBOct 4, 2019 — Climate change and pollution continue to rise as threats, with severe weather, changing ecosystems and rising temperatures responsible for 33 animal extinctions, while pollution is responsible for 37 extinctions to date, new data shows. Agriculture and aquaculture is the biggest threat to endangered species, …
Debunking ‘overpopulation’ - The Ecologist
WEBApr 16, 2020 — As global crises escalate, people must be prepared to challenge and reject the overpopulation argument. Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb and Donella Meadows’ The Limits to Growth in the late 1960s and early 1970s ignited concerns over the world’s burgeoning human population, and its consequences for natural resources. Famed primatologist Dr Jane Goodall remarked at the World Economic ...
How will the world end? - The Ecologist
WEBJun 10, 2019 — A new comprehensive study considers the most likely ways the world will end, including disease, nuclear war, natural disaster and asteroid impact. Climate change poses a significant threat to humanity, as a rise in sea levels would lead to an increased incidence and intensity of natural disasters, including floods, tsunamis, earthquakes ...
Dian Fossey, Africa's mountain gorillas and deadly toll of poaching
WEBOct 25, 2017 — In the early morning hours of 27th December 1985, Dian Fossey, by then one of the world’s celebrated naturalist and bestselling author of Gorillas in the Mist was brutally murdered in the bedroom of her cabin on the slopes of the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda’s northern Ruhengeri Province. Fossey was recognized as the world's leading ...
Crisis or rebirth? The future of Ethiopia's pastoralist tribes
WEBMay 3, 2012 — Pastoralism is in crisis across Africa. But it could yet survive as the best available defence against climate change and famine. Tom Levitt reports from southern Ethiopia. In the scorching midday heat, less than 100 kilometres from the Kenyan border, there is a chorus of voices singing as water is hauled in buckets out of a …
Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth - The Ecologist
WEBMar 15, 2014 — A pastoral city. With 52 square meters of green space per capita, Curitiba is truly the 'greenest' city in the world. Many of the smaller parks are dedicated to one of the ethnic groups that have settled in the city. Filled with shrines to the cultures of the world, they are enchanting oases of shade and quiet in the urban environs.