conservation

APP pulps trees from its own tiger sanctuary. How dumb is that?

Posted by ianduff - 16 December 2011 at 4:04pm - 3 Comments
Forest and peatland clearance inside APP's Senepis tiger sanctuary
All rights reserved. Credit: Eyes on the Forest/WW Indonesia
This was APP's Senepis Tiger Sanctuary, until one of APP's suppliers cut down the trees

Asia Pulp and Paper – the company doing so much to jeopardise the future of Indonesia's rainforests – has done some pretty stupid things in the past. But pulping the trees in its own tiger sanctuary is astonishingly dumb.

And yet that's exactly what APP has done.

Article tagged as: APP, asia pulp and paper, conservation, deforestation, eyes on the forest, tigers, WWF

Sumatran tiger

Sumatran tiger
Author Credit:  Xavier Walker/Alamy
Copyright:  All rights reserved
Date Taken:  7 June, 2011
Article tagged as: conservation, emails, indonesia, sumatra, tigers, wildlife

Images from a vanishing forest

Posted by jamie - 13 November 2007 at 3:01pm - 0 Comments

Lately, I've been working a lot on our palm oil campaign, so my spider senses are highly atuned to anything coming out of Sumatra and Indonesia in general. But two stories I found this morning, both on New Scientist, really underlined what's going on west of Java.

The first article features some astonishing images from the Zoological Society of London, caught by a motion-sensitive camera left in the middle of the forest. The impressive snaps include a herd of elephants and a golden cat, but the stand-out picture is of an inquisitive and rare Sumatran tiger, it's eyes glowing in the camera's flash. Take a look at the slideshow - they're incredble.

Article tagged as: climate change, conservation, deforestation, destructive logging, indonesia, palm oil

What you can do to protect our forests

Ancient forests around the world are in peril, but we can still save them. Governments and the timber industry need to understand what a crucial role they play in maintaining global biodiversity, not to mention how vital they are in regulating the climate, so they need to act now.

And as consumers, we can all help to save the forests. Making sure that the wood and paper we buy has come from well-managed sources (or, even better, is 100 per cent recycled) is something we can all easily do.

Article tagged as: conservation, deforestation, forests, protect, rainforests, take action, what you can do

Conservationists welcome Tesco's decision to end sale of whale meat in Japan

9 November, 2004

Conservation groups welcome Tesco PLC's announcement that it has decided to stop selling all cetacean (whale, dolphin and porpoise) products in its Japanese supermarkets. The decision follows a joint campaign by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), WDCS (Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) and Greenpeace.

Article tagged as: conservation, EIA, japan, oceans, pacific, press releases, tesco, WDCS, whaling

Greenpeace calls on World Governments meeting at CITES to not Trade Away the Planet

Help to stop the trade in illegal mahogany

Help to stop the trade in illegal mahogany

Article tagged as: CITES, conservation, endangered species

Japan tries to obstruct moves to protect critically endangered whale population

27 July, 2001

Greenpeace expressed outrage today at Japan's decision to vote against a proposal to protect the critically endangered Western North Pacific Gray Whale - of which there are believed to be less than 100 left.

Japan was the only country to vote against a proposal at the International Whaling Conference (IWC) to 'safeguard' the remaining whales which are listed as 'critically endangered' by the World Conservation Union - putting them in the same bracket as the black rhinoceros and mountain gorilla.

Article tagged as: conservation, IWC, oceans, press releases, western north pacific gray whales, whaling

Melting ice threatens blue whales' food supply

Posted by bex - 20 July 2001 at 8:00am - 0 Comments
Whale tail

Whale tail

Melting polar ice is threatening the main food source for Antarctic blue whales and could lead to their extinction, an international environmental group said yesterday. The whales feed on small sea creatures known as krill, which in turn eat microscopic marine algae. These live in sea ice and are released in the summer when the ice melts.

Article tagged as: blue whales, climate change, conservation, impacts, krill, oceans, sea ice, WWF

Wet weather and mites devastate bee populations

Posted by bex - 19 July 2001 at 8:00am - 0 Comments
Flowers and bee

Flowers and bee

A combination of pesticide-resistant mites and wet weather has devastated bee populations in parts of the US, wiping out more than half of Maryland's bees this winter and devastating hives in many regions of the country. Beekeepers are now struggling to rebuild their colonies, while farmers who rely on the insects to pollinate their crops have had difficulty finding available hives to place in their fields.

Article tagged as: bees, climate change, conservation, impacts, insects, maryland, USA, vermont