Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
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Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
1d ago
<div><p>Decades of overfishing have decimated <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/fish-and-overfishing#:~:text=It%20estimates%20that%20around%20one,relatively%20stable%20in%20recent%20decades." target="_blank">one third</a> of global fish stocks — upending the delicate balance of ocean ecosystems, and threatening the livelihoods and food supply of hundreds of millions of people who depend on them. </p><p><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:nor ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
3d ago
<p>In the third year of the sweeping global PBS series “<a href="https://www.pbs.org/show/changing-planet/" target="_blank">Changing Planet</a>,” Conservation International CEO M. Sanjayan explores how climate change is affecting some of Earth’s most vulnerable ecosystems — and the groundbreaking science that’s offering hope.</p><p><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">The ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
1w ago
<div><p>To her fans, DJ and music producer Jayda Guy is the Grammy-nominated artist spinning propulsive dance beats at some of the world’s biggest festivals. </p><p><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">But in a new documentary, Guy returns to her “nerdy” roots as a marine scientist — bringing viewers on a journey to explore one of nature's most potent climate allies: blue carbon ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
1w ago
<p>Kenya’s Reteti Elephant Sanctuary — the first community-owned elephant sanctuary in East Africa — provides a place for injured elephants to heal and a home for elephants orphaned by poaching. </p><p>Through a partnership with Conservation InternationaI, Reteti focuses on rescue and return where possible, with the goal of reuniting calves with their mothers within 48 hours.</p><p>Conservation News recently spoke with Reteti founder Katie Rowe, recently nominated for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award.</p> ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
2w ago
<div></div><div><p><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;"></span><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;text-align:inherit;text-transform:inherit;word-spacing:normal;caret-color:auto;white-space:inherit;">Earth lost 3.7 million hectares (9.2 million acres) of tropical forest last year, an area nearly the size of the Netherlands, according to <a href="https://research.wri.org/gf ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
2w ago
<p>A UN report last year found that humanity must overhaul the global food system to curb deforestation and stop climate breakdown.</p><p>This year, at New York Climate Week, one conservationist offered a climate-friendly solution to producing one of the world’s favorite crops: coffee.</p><p>Joining environmental scientists, government leaders and economists at a virtual panel to explore the impact of food on the climate, Conservation International’s coffee expert Bambi Semroc explained why coffee contributes so much more to people than just a ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
2w ago
<br /><p>The smoke has cleared from<a href="https://www.conservation.org/blog/the-amazon-is-on-fire-5-things-you-need-to-know"> fires that raged in the Amazon</a> in August and September, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/20/sudden-darkness-befalls-sao-paulo-western-hemispheres-largest-city-baffling-thousands/" target="_blank">darkening skies</a> and making headlines around the world. </p><div><p>Now, science and policy experts at Conservation International and elsewhere are sifting through the ashes, looking fo ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
2w ago
<p><em>Editor's Note: Climate Week took place from September 23 to September 29. Check <a href="https://www.conservation.org/blog">Conservation News</a> for coverage of this global forum.</em></p><p>If the first few days of Climate Week were about laying out the scope of the problems facing nature and climate, Wednesday was about finding solutions.</p><p>And finding them quickly.</p><p>“If we accept the science that there’s 10 years to get it right on climate change, that doesn’t give us much time f ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
2w ago
<div><p><em>This post was updated on September 25, 2019 at 11:40 am. </em></p><p>The world’s oceans are perilously close to wreaking havoc on humanity due to climate change, according to a new report. </p></div><div><div><p>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” today in the midst of <a href="https://www.conservation.org/blog/what-is-climate-week-3-things-you-need-to-know">Climate Week</a>, days ..read more
Human Nature - Conservation International Blog
2w ago
<p><em><strong>Editor’s note:</strong> If the tuna that Pacific Island communities have reliably fished for generations suddenly change their behavior — teeming in totally new areas of the ocean or in smaller numbers, for example — this behavioral shift doesn’t affect only the tuna. Caused by warming waters due to climate change, this shift affects everything and everyone, from other species in the marine food chain to the livelihoods of fishers all over the Pacific.</em></p><p><em><a h ..read more