The Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre is located at the edge of the Kabili Sepilok Forest Reserve in Sabah, Malaysia. Here, orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) orphaned because of hunting and habitat loss have been saved, treated and rehabilitated since 1964. All around the centre vegetation is thick and the forest shows itself in all its magnificence.
Seychelles is finalising a multi-million dollar debt swap in exchange for its commitment to saving the ocean. The deal was initiated by environmental organisation The Nature Conservancy and the government of the western Indian Ocean nation in 2012. “This is the first example of a debt swap focused on marine conservation and ecosystem-based adaptation to climate
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with its multi-coloured biodiversity, Madagascar’s rainforests with their lemurs, Tanzania’s natural reserves, and Szechuan giant panda sanctuaries in China. These and many others natural and cultural treasures are at risk due to human-related economic activities. A report carried out by WWF shows that at least 114 out of 229 World Heritage
La rottura accidentale di un oleodotto sotterraneo tra Loira Atlantica e Bretagna ha comportato un’importante fuga di petrolio. Evacuate alcune case.
In 2002, only 14 years ago, the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) held a not so enviable title: it was the world’s most endangered wild cat species. A few years have passed by and this elusive feline is not safe yet, but its future seems to be a little rosier. The 2015 census released by
The Upsala Glacier is Argentina’s second largest. Here, according to Fabiano Ventura and his team, explorer and priest Alberto Maria De Agostini took a series of seven pictures. On the Trails of the Glaciers’ new expedition was in Los Glaciares National Park, from the 2nd to the 10th of March, in order to “photograph” global warming
A Swedish study determines how much money can be saved by buying and selling secondhand objects in some online platforms. While it’s obvious that secondhand trade is good to save money and for the environment, environmental savings have not been assessed yet.
On 30 March the first Italian public “ivory crush” took place in Rome as a protest against ivory trade.
The scientists and organisations involved in the Joshua Tree Genome Project are doing something unique: developing genetic tools that could save the Joshua tree from extinction. This unusual looking tree is found only in the hottest and driest place in North America, the Mojave Desert, in the southwestern United States. Important to the local Native
The goal is getting rid of a pest but scientists, environmentalists and the European Union don’t agree.
