Ethiopia announces plans to plant 5 billion seedlings this year, as part of four year 20bn target
Ethiopia is to plant 5 billion tree seedlings this year to help fight climate change and deforestation. The announcement was made...
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Indonesia receives $56m from Norway after reducing deforestation + CO2 emissions by 11 million tons
Indonesia is set to receive $56 million from Norway as the result of the Southeast Asian country’s efforts to preserve its vast tropical...
Evidence that fish flourish in a community-managed marine area offers hope
by Malavika Vyawahare on 21 May 2020 New research from Madagascar offers a glimmer of hope that locally managed marine areas (LMMAs), an...
Historic US agreement gives monarch butterflies the ‘right-of-way’ in protection deal
Photo by Kyle Glennon Unsplash More than 45 transportation and energy companies, as well as dozens of private landowners, have agreed to...
OceanSaver launches Ecodrops, developed to fight the use of single-use plastic + preserve ocean life
Recently awarded the Good Housekeeping award for Eco Innovation 2020, GHI expert said of the Ocean Mist Anti Bac Drops ‘A brilliant...
The "ultra-rare" Blue Calamintha bee feared extinct is spotted by scientists in Florida
Until this spring, the "ultra-rare" blue calamintha bee (Osmia calaminthae) had only been observed in four locations in central Florida,...
Wild white storks hatch in UK for first time in 600 hundred years
The first wild storks to hatch in the UK since the Middle Ages have emerged. Rangers at Knepp Estate near Horsham waited with baited...
In bid to protect bees, EU aims for 50% reduction in the use of chemical pesticides by 2030
The European Commission is seeking to halve the use of chemical pesticides by 2030 to halt the decline of pollinators, in a plan likely...
Brazil deploy military to protect Amazon rainforest
The armed forces, alongside environmental officials, police and other government agencies, began with an operation in a national forest...
First brown bear in 150 years spotted by film crew in Galicia, northern Spain
A film crew from Zeitun Films discovered the presence of this 3-5 year old brown bear, the first to be sen in Galicia northern Spain for...
Whaling in Iceland is shut down for second consecutive year
Iceland's two whaling companies will skip the whale hunt this summer for the second straight year, with one telling AFP Friday that they...
Pakistan pays lockdown unemployed to plant saplings in country's 10 Billion Tree Tsunami programme
Since Pakistan locked down starting March 23 to try to stem the spread of COVID-19, unemployed day labourers have been given new jobs as...
US republicans set a goal to plant a trillion trees by 2050 to fight global warming
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday proposed legislation setting a goal for the United States to plant a trillion trees by 2050 to fight...
In 'Honeyland', One of Europe’s Last Wild Beekeepers Fights Environmental and Economic Hardships...
The documentary Honeyland premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, where it was the most awarded film, winning the Grand Jury Prize,...
UK's Sussex council bans coastal trawler fishing to cut greenhouse emissions + revive kelp forests
A campaign to restore a large underwater kelp forest has been helped by an agreement to ban trawler fishing off the West Sussex coast. A...
One million native trees are to be planted in the Cairngorms in a bid to restore ancient forests
A million native trees are to be planted in the Cairngorms in a bid to restore ancient forests and protect fragile stocks of wild salmon....
National Trust to plant 20 million new trees to step up the battle against climate change
The National Trust has unveiled one of the UK's biggest woodland expansion and tree planting projects in an ambitious plan to become...
The 2019 Champion of the Earth for Policy and Leadership goes to Costa Rica
The 2019 Champion of the Earth for Policy and Leadership goes to Costa Rica. As it battles to preserve its biodiversity, Costa Rica has...
Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve, (Republic of Korea), New Entrant to Unesco Biospheres 2019.
Located in the Chugaryeong Tectonic Valley, the Yeoncheon Imjin River Biosphere Reserve encompasses the entire county of Yeoncheon and...
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