protected areas

Welcome to the 'protected areas' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'protected areas'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “protected areas”

• Conservation Planning for Extreme Events?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  What am I trying to illustrate in the above photo (a picture of cattle and elephant dung)? That conservation planning is a pile of poop? No. But this mixture of excrement does show why such planning needs to incorporate extreme events like drought or flooding – especially for the impacts of those events on ...
  3 days ago

• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
  4 days ago

• Costa Rica proposes to downgrade Las Baulas National Park, threatening leatherback sea turtles

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Costa Rica is considered by many to be a shining example of environmental stewardship, preserving both its terrestrial and marine biodiversity while benefiting from being a popular tourist location. However, a new move by the Costa Rican government has placed their reputation in question. In May of this year the ...
  4 days ago

• The World’s Oldest National Park: Ghosts of Monks and Red Deer

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  Bogdkhan Uul , just south of Ulanbator, Mongolia, is the oldest national park in the world . That’s right — it predates Yellowstone by over 100 years. Established by the Mongolian government in 1778, it was originally chartered by Ming Dynasty officials in the 1500s as an area to be kept off limits to ...
  5 days ago

• Custom seized seahorses at ZSL London Zoo

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  A herd of seahorses confiscated by customs are now seeking sanctuary at ZSL London Zoo. The 22 juvenile longsnout seahorses (Hippocampus reidi) were confiscated by the UK Border Agency two weeks ago. Rachel Jones, Deputy Team Leader of ZSL London Zoo’s Aquarium, said: “People usually try to smuggle seahorses ...
  5 days ago

• The Future of Environmental Law Mapping

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  By Laurent Granier Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and mapping offer great opportunities for the transfer of legal data from books to maps. GIS applications have been evolving in many directions, well beyond geography. Many fields such as environmental economics, social science, health science and ...
  1 week ago

• Worlds first video of the elusive and endangered bay cat

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Rare, elusive, and endangered by habitat loss, the bay cat is one of the worlds least studied wild cats. Several specimens of the cat were collected in the 19th and 20th Century, but a living cat wasnt even photographed until 1998. Now, researchers in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, have managed to capture the first film of ...
  1 week ago

• Saving Seahorses, Conserving Corals

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 112
  Good news today for ocean wildlife, here at home in the United States and overseas in Cambodia. In the U.S., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new pilot program -- backed up with money -- to protect coral reefs in...
  1 week ago

• Palm oil threatens Borneos rarest cats

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Oil palm expansion is threatening Borneos rarest wild cats, reports a new study based on three years of fieldwork and more than 17,000 camera trap nights. Studying cats in five locations—each with different environments—in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, researchers found that four of five cat species are threatened by ...
  1 week ago

• Ecotourism: Green Problem, or Green Solution?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  Ecotourism is often presented as the savior for wildlife and wild places — providing local communities with financial incentives to preserve nature while also reducing poaching and development pressure. But, lately, others question whether rich Westerners jetting around the world really help much at all : They ...
  1 week ago

• Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  The Walt Disney Company will invest $7 million in forest conservation projects in the U.S., the Congo Basin, and the Amazon in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
  1 week ago

• Two Philippine Eagles released to Mt. Kitanglad

  
  Bukidnon Online — Authority: 127
  BUKIDNON NEWS – A pair of Philippine Eagles was released to the Mt. Kitanglad range in Bukidnon just after daybreak on October 29, 2009. The simultaneous release of two Philippine Eagles was a first for the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) since it started its release program back in 2004.“These experimental ...
  1 week ago

• Goodbye, snows of Kilimanjaro

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  The most recent survey among the ice fields atop Mount Kilimanjaro found that the ice atop Africas most famous mountain could be gone in twenty years—and maybe even sooner. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science the study was conducted by a team of researchers who first measured the ...
  1 week ago

• State Panel puts off decision on Southern California marine sanctuaries including OB and Sunset Cliffs

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  For nearly the entire past year a panel of marine experts have been putting together proposals for redesigning Californias system of marine protected areas along the southern coast. The areas include Ocean Beach and Sunset Cliffs, and other parts of San Diego County. The OB coast is considered one of the chief areas ...
  2 weeks ago

• Worry About Air Pollution, Not Just Climate Change

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  Yes, global warming is a big deal and a big challenge. But sometimes I get so frustrated by conservation and environmental NGO’s for not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time — in other words, for failing to appreciate the real lesson of greenhouse gas emissions . The real lesson is there is no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rosewood traffickers busted in Madagascar

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Authorities in Madagascar have sacked a local official, arrested several businessmen, and issued fines following the discovery of illegally harvested rosewood logs aboard a ship, reports LExpress de Madagascar .
  2 weeks ago

• Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Indigenous groups in a dispute with Hunt Oil, over the company performing seismic tests their land, have scheduled a meeting with the Texas based oil corporation, according to Reuters.
  2 weeks ago

• Will Ecuadors plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Ecuadors Yasuni National Park is full of wealth: it is one of the richest places on earth in terms of biodiversity; it is home to the indigenous Waorani people, as well as several uncontacted tribes; and the parks forest and soil provides a massive carbon sink. However, Yasuni National Park also sits on wealth of a ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Sea of Hope

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 116
  Time was when it didnt seem surprising that a river could catch fire because it was so polluted. And the idea that the Aral Sea -- once the fourth largest lake on the planet -- could dry up and blow...
  2 weeks ago

• Beyond ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’: Why Conservation Needs a Rethink

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  Of course this year’s Nobel Peace Prize got all the press — as that prize nearly always does. The Nobel Prize in economics , by contrast, went almost unnoticed. That’s a double shame . First, because it was given to Dr. Elinor Ostrom of the Indiana University and Arizona State University — the first ...
  2 weeks ago

Comments about protected areas