Myanmar to ban logging until 2017
The new law aims to stop illegal logging in the country. The measure will safeguard teak for 10 years.
Brazil. The second largest dam in the country won’t go ahead
The environmental license for one of the most extensive dams in Brazil has been denied. A valuable and sensitive area of the Amazon has been spared.
The monk seal is back in the Mediterranean Sea
L’ultimo avvistamento del raro pinnipede, l’unico presente nel Mediterraneo, sarebbe avvenuto in Campania, nel Golfo di Gaeta.
Drones will drop peanut butter-flavoured vaccines to save endangered ferrets
Per proteggere da un’epidemia di peste i cani della prateria, prede principali di una rara specie di furetto, l’agenzia americana per l’ambiente ha deciso di ricorrere alla tecnologia.
Surprise, surprise: Donald Trump’s sons kill animals for sport
La passione per la caccia grossa di Eric e Donald Trump Junior, figli del candidato alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti, ha suscitato nuove polemiche e potrebbe danneggiare la campagna del padre.
Buddhist monks release 600 pounds of lobster back into the ocean
In Canada un gruppo di monaci buddisti ha acquistato numerose aragoste destinate ad essere mangiate nei ristoranti e le ha liberate.
Kenya, ivory kingpin sentenced to 20 years in jail
Un tribunale keniota ha condannato Feisal Ali Mohamed, responsabile della morte di almeno 120 elefanti.
Thailand drops bombs, made of seeds
L’iniziativa è nata con l’obiettivo di ripristinare la copertura forestale del Paese che ha perso quasi metà delle sue foreste.
Colobus Conservation, restoring Kenya’s coasts to protect monkeys
The rare Angolan black and white colobus monkey lives high in the trees and hardly ever comes down to the ground. It is a leaf eater and the forest is essential to its survival. On the southern coast of Kenya, where the coral rag forests which are extremely rich in biodiversity have slowly been disappearing in favour of
Scientists are turning CO2 into rock, reducing emissions
There are many examples of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), a system mainly used in thermoelectric power plants to reduce the emissions of the combustion process. However, the drawback of costs and how to find proper spaces in which storing carbon dioxide while avoiding uncontrollable leakage makes this system difficult to use. For this reason,