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2 months ago

Image Resources gains environmental approvals to clear WA banksia forest

ABC

Ecologists are alarmed by plans to clear a significant area of endangered WA banksia woodlands to make way for two mineral sands projects. Image Resources has environmental approval to clear 206.4 hectares of banksia woodlands for its Atlas mining project at Nambung, about 170 kilometres north of Perth. Curtin University botanist Kingsley Dixon said giving up the high-quality habitat, a …

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2 months ago

Tiny Treasures: The Untold Story of Insects and Their Impact on Our World

Live Mint

The article explores the importance of insects in maintaining the balance of ecosystems. Despite our conditioning and fear of things that crawl rather than walk, insects are so much more than pests. This month, citizens have been counting and observing dragonflies for the Dragonfly Festival, which happens annually in India in October and November. In September, they got together to …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Trump golf course environmental claims ‘laughable’, campaigners say

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Namibia to slaughter more than 80 elephants as protesters call it a ‘colossal disaster’

The Independent

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

NGO asks Governor to annul ‘political’ appointments to Karnataka Wildlife Board

The Hindu

Mangaluru-based National Environment Care Federation has written to Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot to revoke the appointment of politically-connected persons with no expertise in ecology, wildlife and forest habitats as members of the Karnataka State Board for Wildlife. On August 3, Federation Secretary H. Shashidhar Shetty wrote to the Governor that the government has appointed individuals with political connections, who lack …

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5 months ago

The winner in China’s panda diplomacy: the pandas themselves

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — China’s panda diplomacy may have one true winner: the pandas themselves. Male Giant Panda, Mei Sheng born in San Diego Zoo in 2003 and returned to China in 2007, eats bamboo under a hut at the Bifengxia Panda Base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Ya’an, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Monday, June …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Experts warn H5N1 bird flu strain 'likely' to arrive in Australia in spring and could put wild birds such as little penguins at risk

ABC

As authorities work to restrict the spread of the deadly H7 strain of bird flu affecting chickens and eggs across Australia, ecologists and advocates warn a different strain of the virus could lead to an environmental disaster in some wild birds. Dr Dewar said her greatest concern was animals like threatened sea lions or vulnerable little penguin colonies with "small …

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6 months ago

As number of devotees to temple festivals in MTR spikes, conservationists warn of hazards to wildlife, habitat

The Hindu

For a pilgrim visiting the Sri Maasi Kariya Bantan Ayyan Thiru Kovil, an Adivasi temple located deep inside crucial tiger and vulture habitats of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, the journey entails an almost hour-long journey by bus from Udhagamandalam to Vazhaithottam in the MTR buffer zone. On the importance of the region to wildlife, especially tigers, Mr. Mohanraj said that …

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6 months, 1 week ago

France’s leftist alliance leaders vow to ‘extinguish the flame’ of far right in upcoming elections

Associated Press

PARIS — Leaders of France’s left-wing parties allied in a new coalition and outlined their plan on Friday to prevent the surging far right from taking power in upcoming snap national parliamentary elections. Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally is While differences between them remain, the leaders of the usually fractious French left-wing parties emphasized that all of them had …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

French far-right National Rally well ahead in EU elections

China Daily

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-06-10 03:55 French Jordan Bardella, President of the French far-right National Rally party and head of the RN list for the European elections, and Marine Le Pen, President of the French far-right National Rally party parliamentary group, address party members after the polls closed during the European Parliament elections, in Paris, France on June 9. PARIS -- …

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7 months ago

Utrecht pits predatory fish, plants and AI against crayfish

Dutch News

Utrecht council and water company Waternet have called in aquatic ecologists to combat the rise of American crayfish in a new experiment using plants, predatory fish and AI. The crayfish – Procambarus clarkii, or red swamp crayfish – are thought to have travelled from their native United States in the ballast tanks of large freighters and are well adapted to …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Dune: The 'terraformed' Oregon dunes that inspired Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic

BBC

Dune: The 'terraformed' Oregon dunes that inspired Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic Nathaniel Scharping Terraforming of the sand in Oregon inspired themes in Frank Herbert's Dune When Frank Herbert saw how ecologists had manipulated the sands of Oregon's coast, it would influence his sci-fi novel Dune – but in the present day, that human intervention has triggered unexpected consequences. The "poverty …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Dry’ Gulmarg leaves tourists, ski enthusiasts dejected

Hindustan Times

Although Kashmir is almost halfway through its harshest 40-day winter period, “Chilla-i-Kalan”, no snow can bee seen on the Himalayan peaks and vast meadows dotted with pine trees and blue lakes. Popular tourist destination Gulmarg, which is generally snow-covered at this time of the year, is “dry and bleached”, bereft of any snow, leaving the tourists and people upset. There …

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1 year ago

Mexico’s Maya tourist train opens for partial service amid delays and cost overruns

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Maya Train rail project opened partially to the general public Saturday, amid hours-long delays and huge cost overruns. But even on the part López Obrador inaugurated Friday, just a single line of a planned double-line track has been finished, meaning one train has to wait on a siding while another passes. In comments Friday, López Obrador …

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1 year ago

Mexico’s president inaugurates first part of $20 billion tourist train project on Yucatan peninsula

Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president on Friday inaugurated the first part of the pet project of his administration, a tourist train that runs in a rough loop around the Yucatan peninsula. “It was also done in record time.” Layda Sansores, the governor of Campeche state, claimed “the entire peninsula is breaking out in cries of ‘Hallelujah!’” Unlike the remaining two-thirds …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Pablo Escobar’s feral ‘cocaine hippos’ face cull

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Meet the nomad on a bicycle journey across India to collect native seeds

The Hindu

Yashok Sivasubramaniam likens himself to the pitta, a shy and secretive bird. “She is called Pitta, and is my companion on this journey,” says Yashok speaking over phone from Auroville where he has stopped to study the Auroville Botanical Gardens. Yashok’s expedition may seem all-encompassing: to collect native seeds, document indigenous tribal wisdom and interview environmentalists, ecologists, entomologists, ornithologists, and …

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1 year, 3 months ago

In San Francisco Bay, ecologists work to protect sevengill sharks

The Hindu

Meghan Holst studies the broadnose sevengill shark, so she was naturally concerned when record-setting rain this year altered the shark's nursery grounds in San Francisco Bay. Next, perhaps, will come California Fish and Game Commission protections for the sharks in San Francisco Bay, which she considers a nursing and pupping ground for a species believed to be in decline. San …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Have you been to Chennai’s Tholkappia Poonga? Meet the ecologist behind it

The Hindu

A welcome oasis of green, far removed from the metropolis’ daily hustle, in the happy company of pelicans and mangroves: This is how Chennai would describe Adyar’s own Tholkappiya Poonga; as the much-needed pocket of calm that reminds the city and its people of “where they came from.” This is precisely what ecologist Joss Brooks, the man behind the important …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Ecologists fear Amendments to Forest Conservation Act will leave it a hollow shell

The Hindu

The recent Forest Conservation Amendment Bill will leave the Forest Act a hollowed-out shell, said Dr. Sharachchandra Lele, distinguished fellow at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru. The much-diluted bill also removes the need for clearance permissions and consent of the local community to strip forest lands alongside railway tracks or public roads, or for the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

An experiment to switch from tobacco to sandalwood farming

The Hindu

At a time when efforts were underway to identify a suitable alternative crop for tobacco, which is linked to cancer and cardiovascular diseases among other ailments, Antardhwani, an independent think tank of HCG-Bharat Hospital and Institute of Oncology, is steering a project under which tobacco farmers had switched to growing sandalwood. In the tobacco-growing belt of Hunsur in Mysuru district, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Bats and birds are holding up home insulation drive

Dutch News

Roosting bats and other protected species are holding up an insulation programme to make homes more sustainable, insulation sector organisation Venin has warned. However, the programme is likely to be delayed because of the presence of bats, swifts and sparrows and a lack of ecologists to evaluate the situation, Venin spokesman Piet-Jan Dijkstra told the Telegraaf. Finding out if the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Bats and birds are holding up home insulation drive

Dutch News

Roosting bats and other protected species are holding up an insulation programme to make homes more sustainable, insulation sector organisation Venin has warned. However, the programme is likely to be delayed because of the presence of bats, swifts and sparrows and a lack of ecologists to evaluate the situation, Venin spokesman Piet-Jan Dijkstra told the Telegraaf. Finding out if the …

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1 year, 6 months ago

The ‘queen of hills’ Ooty basks in the bicentenary glory

The Hindu

On January 8, 1819, sitting in Dimbatty valley, the Collector of Coimbatore, John Sullivan, wrote to Sir Thomas Munro, who was Governor of Madras: “My dear Colonel, I have been in the Highlands for the last week. Pristine past “Ootacamund, the first hill station of the British Raj, officially came into being on June 1, 1823 when Stonehouse, the first …

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Image Resources gains environmental approvals to clear WA banksia forest

Tiny Treasures: The Untold Story of Insects and Their Impact on Our World

Trump golf course environmental claims ‘laughable’, campaigners say

Namibia to slaughter more than 80 elephants as protesters call it a ‘colossal disaster’

NGO asks Governor to annul ‘political’ appointments to Karnataka Wildlife Board

The winner in China’s panda diplomacy: the pandas themselves

Experts warn H5N1 bird flu strain 'likely' to arrive in Australia in spring and could put wild birds such as little penguins at risk

As number of devotees to temple festivals in MTR spikes, conservationists warn of hazards to wildlife, habitat

France’s leftist alliance leaders vow to ‘extinguish the flame’ of far right in upcoming elections

French far-right National Rally well ahead in EU elections

Utrecht pits predatory fish, plants and AI against crayfish

Dune: The 'terraformed' Oregon dunes that inspired Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic

‘Dry’ Gulmarg leaves tourists, ski enthusiasts dejected

Mexico’s Maya tourist train opens for partial service amid delays and cost overruns

Mexico’s president inaugurates first part of $20 billion tourist train project on Yucatan peninsula

Pablo Escobar’s feral ‘cocaine hippos’ face cull

Meet the nomad on a bicycle journey across India to collect native seeds

In San Francisco Bay, ecologists work to protect sevengill sharks

Have you been to Chennai’s Tholkappia Poonga? Meet the ecologist behind it

Ecologists fear Amendments to Forest Conservation Act will leave it a hollow shell

An experiment to switch from tobacco to sandalwood farming

Bats and birds are holding up home insulation drive

Bats and birds are holding up home insulation drive

The ‘queen of hills’ Ooty basks in the bicentenary glory