Pests, wildlife and threatened species
Nature Conservation Council of NSW
The New South Wales State Government’s support for a Marine Parks Amendment (Moratorium) Bill has been condemned by an alliance of 38 conservation organisations as a “dangerous set back for marine conservation”. The proposed five?year moratorium on new marine parks in New South Wales would prevent further action to protect aquatic habitats that provide a home to diverse marine life, including rare and threatened species. The groups opposing the Bill claim to represent more than 590,000 Australians.
posted by seamas on August 15, 2010 at 7:54 am · filed under 
The Guardian
New evidence shows Indonesia’s largest palm and pulp group is breaking its environmental commitments by bulldozing rainforest and destroyed endangered orang-utan habitats in Kalimantan.
posted by patrick on July 30, 2010 at 2:29 pm · filed under 
ABC News
18 million dollars will be used to fight an upcoming locust plague, New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally has announced. The plague is expected to be the worst in 30 years, and will require five times more pesticides than last year’s crop protection.
posted by ruby on July 22, 2010 at 9:32 am · filed under
ABC News
U.S. authorities and wildlife conservation groups are working together to rescue sea turtle eggs from nests along the oil spill impacted coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Space agency NASA is providing incubation facilities for the eggs at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The turtles are expected to hatch in the next few days and should be released into clean waters somewhere on planet Earth.
posted by seamas on July 18, 2010 at 6:31 pm · filed under 
The Guardian
Research published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. documenting the ongoing destruction of the natural world by human activity has found that more than one-in-four of all flowering plants are under threat of extinction. The results reflect similar global studies of other species groups by the IUCN, which estimates that one-in-five of all mammals, nearly one-in-three amphibians and one-in-eight birds are vulnerable to extinction.
posted by ruby on July 8, 2010 at 9:18 am · filed under
ABC News
With some countries pushing to overturn a 24-year ban on commercial whaling, the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting in Morocco was suspended less than an hour after it opened. The Commission’s deputy chair has advocated private talks between sides at loggerheads over the ban before the meeting resumes. More than 80 nations are represented at the meeting, with Japan leading the charge to overturn the ban.
posted by seamas on June 21, 2010 at 10:32 pm · filed under
The Guardian
Delegates from 97 countries are meeting in South Korea to discuss the possibility of setting up an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) modeled on the IPCC to monitor the destruction of flora and fauna. “If the true value of ecosystem services – economic, social and spiritual – were factored into decision-making, wetlands, forests and reefs would be viewed and treated very differently,” said French ecology secretary, Chantal Jouanno, and campaigner Janet Ranganathan.
posted by ruby on June 10, 2010 at 9:59 am · filed under 
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