The previous post showed that most life on Earth is found in the tropics, where it is also being lost quickest. In this blog I discuss how the impacts of this are not evenly felt. The greatest needs (continued) The consequences of biodiversity loss and environmental decline can be severe. Developing country fisheries typically have no [...]
“Charity begins at home”. What if we stretch the definition of ‘home’ to encompass the entirety of Earth? Understandably, this idea may not sit well with everyone. With that in mind we’ve compiled a list of reasons to prioritise international conservation. The next two posts discuss the list in more detail: • Biodiversity loss [...]
Anyone who has read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will know what the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything is: 42. It took the fictional supercomputer Deep Thought 7.5 million years to come up with that answer. A group of marine scientists and conservationists have taken rather less [...]
Last week the International Whaling Commission (IWC) had its annual meeting in Panama. Every year pro- and anti-whaling nations get together to battle it out on the issue of whale hunting – once a huge moral issue, now increasingly on the margins. On the agenda this year were whaling quotas for indigenous groups - [...]