Tag: Biodiversity
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Man Pays $350K to Kill a Rhino
Should the opportunity to kill an animal be sold for six figures or for any amount of money at all? That’s what happened at an auction in Texas a week ago, and now the winner bidder is left reading death threats directed at his children. As dozens of protesters looked on, the Dallas Safari Club’s auctioned…
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Importance of Old Growth Forests: Carbon Capture Potential Grows With Age
By Dr. Janet Cotter We know that forests are biodiversity-rich, and we know they provide us with essential ecosystem services, such as regulating water flows and influencing weather patterns. One ecosystem service often discussed these days is the role of forests in helping regulate the amount of the greenhouse gas—carbon dioxide (CO2)—in the atmosphere. A new analysis…
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Preserving an Appalachian Treasure: American Ginseng
[Editor’s note: This article has been going viral on EcoWatch for days and has been very popular over the last many months. The article is from the 2009 August issue of EcoWatch Journal and the online format of the article is from an older version of our site. I thought with it’s renewed popularity, it…
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Top 10 Priority Areas in Marine Conservation
By Dr. Elizabeth Selig If you walk on the beach and look out at your nearest stretch of the global ocean, it can be hard to fathom the incredible diversity that lies beneath the waves. Our oceans contain an estimated 2.2 million species, the vast majority of which have never been seen or described by…
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Palm Oil Company Ordered to Pay $30 Million for Illegal Rainforest Destruction
By Alicia Graef An Indonesian court issued a big blow to a palm oil company for illegally destroying forest land in Sumatra’s protected Leuser Ecosystem, which provides critical habitat for orangutans and other endangered species. In what’s being called a groundbreaking verdict, the court found palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large areas of the Tripa peat…