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By Maxwell Radwin A law that would protect a massive stretch of Argentina’s seafloor is running out of time for a parliamentary vote, and conservationists are racing to raise awareness before they run into major delays. Creation of the “Blue Hole” reserve in the South Atlantic Ocean would protect thousands of square kilometers of seafloor from bottom trawling and require better working conditions on vessels fishing there. But the bill has stalled in Argentina’s National Congress for years and will expire in November. “[This legislation] is the only tool that exists today to begin protecting th...
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By Maxwell Radwin MEXICO CITY — Top suppliers of Mexican avocados continue to work with growers who use land where forests have been cleared illegally, a new investigation shows. Top suppliers Calavo Growers, Fresh Del Monte Produce, Mission Produce and West Pak Avocado purchased avocados in 2023 and 2024 from illegally deforested land, according to a new investigation from Climate Rights International (CRI), an environmental and human rights group, and Mexican NGO Guardián Forestal. “The continued sourcing of avocados from deforested land by these companies is in defiance of the public statem...
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By Iván Paredes Tamayo In Bolivia’s Madidi National Park, the Andes and the Amazon meet. Their landscapes gaze upon each other, converge and embrace with the full force of their diverse and vast vegetation. This natural wonder continues to resist the invasion of gold miners, who are advancing little by little across rivers and through Indigenous communities, destroying one of the most biodiverse reserves in the world. Illegal mining, the intimidation of park rangers and plans to build a highway through the middle of the park are threatening Madidi’s very existence. Ruth Alipaz is an Indigenous...
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By Didier Makal LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo — In Manono, a town in the province of Tanganyika, in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Katanga region, a mining project has still not broken ground, more than two years after the confirmation of a sizeable lithium deposit. Lithium has been in high demand worldwide for about a decade for the production of lithium batteries — the best electrical energy storage system currently available. The prospecting of the Manono deposit has brought hope that infrastructure such as roads will be developed and jobs will be c...
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By Charles Kolou KARÈ, Togo — Under the hot sun of an April afternoon in northern Togo, we made our way by motorcycle across the impoverished prefecture of Kozah. It wasn’t a long journey, about 30 minutes, but threading between trucks and cars on National Highway No. 1, it was a treacherous one. When we arrived, we were greeted with a smile by “Dadja” Pékémassim Ali, the 57-year-old chief of the canton of Kouméa, where the village of Karè is located. “We’re glad you’ve come to talk about this forest, whose restoration we’re delighted to see,” he told us. “Out of ignorance, and in a desire to ...
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By Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla Lakes National Park is set in a semiarid landscape of grassy plains, hills scattered with acacia trees, and ravines cut by seasonal streams. Spanning 887 square kilometers (342 square miles) and located some 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of the capital, Addis Ababa, it includes the two Rift Valley lakes it’s named after. Abijatta and Shalla are a pair of connected saline lakes that provide habitat for waterbirds including black-winged stilts, storks, pelicans, and lesser and greater flamingos. Ostriches, African fish eagles and various plover species are year-ro...
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By Petro Kotzé Three years into an ambitious wetland restoration project in East Africa, conservationist Julie Mulonga says she’s learned the value of small steps. The Source to Sea project set out to protect wetlands in the Rift Valley and mangroves along the Indian Ocean coastline at the same time as strengthening livelihoods and climate resilience. “We started with a big vision for the Source to Sea project,” says Mulonga, the East Africa director for Wetlands International, “but looking back, I think we might have aimed too big, too soon.” Launched in 2021, the project covers two vast ecor...
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A central Dutch province is urgently warning parents not to take young children to a popular forest area following two recent close encounters with a wolf displaying “atypical and worrying” behaviour. The warning is the latest in an ongoing struggle between wolves and humans across Europe. Multiple countries have proposed killing wolves that are perceived as dangerous, much to the upset of animal rights activists who say they have a right to roam. At the end of last year, the European Commission proposed lighter protection for the wolf’s growing population, suggesting downgrading its protectio...
Euronews (English)
Tokyo (AFP) - Le Japon a étendu sa chasse commerciale à la baleine pour cibler également le rorqual commun, deuxième plus grand mammifère vivant sur la planète, une décision critiquée par le gouvernement australien jeudi. Le Japon, l’un des trois seuls pays au monde à chasser les baleines à des fins commerciales, aux côtés de la Norvège et de l'Islande, a donc ajouté le rorqual commun à sa liste de cétacés ciblés qui comprend déjà le petit rorqual, le rorqual de Bryde et le rorqual boréal. "Notre principale justification, c'est qu’il y a des ressources suffisantes" de baleines à nageoires, a d...
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By Astrid Arellano In May 2024, Indigenous organizations in Peru’s Amazon achieved a milestone in a campaign that lasted for almost two decades. Indigenous peoples living in isolation and initial contact (PIACI) will be protected within the recently declared Sierra del Divisor Occidental Indigenous Reserve, a territory they’ve long inhabited — and place where they have historically faced pressures that threaten their existence. The Indigenous reserve spans 515,114 hectares (over 1.2 million acres) in the Peruvian departments of Ucayali and Loreto. The Peruvian government officially recognized ...
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