Amazon Rainforest: At Risk From Initiative To Connect South American Economies

NEWS: An unprecedented development plan to link South America’s economies through new transportation, energy and telecommunications projects could destroy much of the Amazon rainforest in coming decades, according to a new study by Conservation International scientist Tim Killeen.
However, Killeen reports that such a disastrous outcome can be avoided if steps are taken now to reconcile [...]

World Moves into Ecological Red

Everywhere we look, the news this weekend is that the world moved into “ecological overdraft” on Saturday, the point at which human consumption exceeds the ability of the earth to sustain it in any year and goes into the red, The New Economics Foundation think-tank said.

Should Spending in Carbon Mean Compensating in Cash?

On Tuesday, Indonesia, the host of a major climate change conference in December 2006, called on all rich countries to compensate those poorer countries that are preserving and re-building their rainforests to soak up our greenhouse gases.
“Countries that seek to enhance their carbon sinks should be given incentive and reward for doing so” said President [...]

The Reality of Bushmeat Hunting

The above video is a shocking visualisation of the Bushmeat trade. As large tracts of forest in Central and West Africa are opened up to logging and mining, commercial “bushmeat” hunting is threatening apes, chimpanzees and other endangered species with extinction.
“Bushmeat” is the name given to the flesh of wild [...]