We begin our mission to spot an endangered monkey not at the gates of a National Park but by a corrugated iron shed that pongs of cow manure…
Tag: Biodiversity
Nigeria’s last savannah elephants
Purple starlings flit overhead. Verdant tumbles of vegetation whisper in the mid-afternoon breeze. As our rifle-toting convoy snakes along a game trail through Yankari National Park in North-eastern Nigeria, it’s a picture of tranquillity. Until we’re flanked by a stampeding herd of cattle…
Wallowing on the past
In defence of wallowing on the past…
Yanking back our collective baselines
3 examples of good science helping shift our shoddy baselines
MAPstoration: the art of pinpointing where restoration is a Bonn idea.
A growing number of scientists are looking at how we might best target restoration efforts. Here’s a quick summary of recent efforts–and what they tell us.
Land grab, logging and mining threaten “biodiversity jewel” island off Papua New Guinea
Woodlark Island lies off the coast of Papua New Guinea and is home to dozens of unique species and a more than 2,000-year-old human culture.
Listen in to the noises of the rainforest
How to travel to a rainforest from the comfort of your chair.
Building an ecosystem for change
It seems to me that we are stuck in a rut. The demise of wildlife and wild places continues unabated and although conservation works, it’s still stuck in the “small movement” phase. The restoration of an area of forest, or the down-listing of a species on the IUCN Red List […]