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AGRICULTURE AND BIODIVERSITY
This is how much different commodities contribute to deforestation
World Economic Forum, 25 February 2021
New analysis shows that just seven agricultural commodities — cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and plantation wood fiber — accounted for 26% of global tree cover loss from 2001 to 2015. These agricultural commodities replaced 71.9 million hectares of forest during that period, an area of land more than twice the size of Germany.
What is Organic Farming? Principles, Benefits and Pitfall
Krishijagran.com, 23 February 2021
Organic farming is the buzzword in the world of agriculture. People usually believe this is a new way of farming; but it is not. Organic farming has been practiced since ancient times. In fact, earlier, there were no synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. People were more connected to nature and used natural products.
More: https://krishijagran.com/agripedia/what-is-organic-farming-principles-benefits-and-pitfall/
Saving Earth’s biodiversity through a story revolution
Open Access Government, 25 February 2021
The WILD Foundation’s President, Vance Martin and Vice President of Policy and Communications, Amy Lewis, highlight the important and often forgotten role of storytelling and community organising to encourage conservation
More: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/saving-earths-biodiversity-through-a-story-revolution/104742/
Parasitic plants conspire to keep hosts alive
Phys.org, 23 February 2021
The plant that encourages kissing at Christmas is in fact a parasite, and new research reveals mistletoe has an unusual feeding strategy.
More: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-parasitic-conspire-hosts-alive.html
COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS
Saving Earth’s biodiversity through a story revolution
Open Access Government, 25 February 2021
The WILD Foundation’s President, Vance Martin and Vice President of Policy and Communications, Amy Lewis, highlight the important and often forgotten role of storytelling and community organising to encourage conservation
More: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/saving-earths-biodiversity-through-a-story-revolution/104742/
FOREST BIODIVERSITY
Over 80% of Atlantic Rainforest remnants have been impacted by human activity
Science Codex, 25 February 2021
A Brazilian study published in Nature Communications shows that human activities have directly or indirectly caused biodiversity and biomass losses in over 80% of the remaining Atlantic Rainforest fragments.
Public-private partnerships could play key role in combatting deforestation
Modern Diplomacy, 25 February 2021
As environmental leaders and change makers meet virtually for the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in February 2021, the issue of deforestation has been central to their discussions.
Black-browed babbler found in Borneo 180 years after last sighting
Guardian (International Edition), 25 February 2021
In the 1840s, a mystery bird was caught on an expedition to the East Indies. Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon, described it to science and named it the black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata).
Earth Today | A move towards social forestry
Jamaica Gleaner, 25 February 2021
Department is looking to communities as a part of the answer to realising expanded forest cover for the island while also reaping climate change risk reduction benefits, such as carbon capture, which has helped to cool global temperatures.
More: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20210225/earth-today-move-towards-social-forestry
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATIONS AND PRACTICES - ARTICLE 8(J)
Tribes Could Play a Crucial Role in Achieving a Bold New Conservation Goal
Audubon, 25 February 2021
An emerging effort to protect 30 percent of the country's land and water is an opportunity to strengthen tribal sovereignty and heed Indigenous ecological knowledge, experts say.
More: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2021/tribes-could-play-crucial-role-achieving-bold-new
“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann
Mongabay (India), 23 February 2021
One of the dominant trends in conservation over the past 20 years has been growing recognition of the contributions Indigenous peoples have made toward conservationists’ goals of protecting biodiversity, wild places, and ecosystem functions.
INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES
Florida wants to stop these reptiles from becoming the next invasive species in the Everglades
Phys.org, 23 February 2021
Wildlife managers in Florida are finally moving to address an existential question: If the state is like an all-you-can eat buffet for invasive reptiles originally introduced as exotic pets, then why are some of those species still imported and sold by breeders and pet stores?
More: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-florida-reptiles-invasive-species-everglades.html
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