Ecuador’s closed season bans the fishing of certain species for a few months each year, to help stocks recover to more sustainable levels. Ministerial Agreement 070 establishes a bycatch percentage ...

Much like death, extinction is part of life, an inevitable, natural phenomenon that has occurred cyclically throughout our planet’s history. Approximately 99 per cent of species that have walked the ...

In 2020, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached its highest level since 2008.Over 11,000 square kilometres of trees were cut down, plundering a vital reservoir of CO2 that’s crucial for our ...

Isatou Ceesay is a 41-year-old social entrepreneur and the Director of the Gambia Women’s Initiative (WIG), based in the village of N’Jau, 681 kilometres (423 miles) away from the Gambian capital ...

Some of the earliest formulations of the idea come from Ancient Greece: South African philosopher David Benatar quotes the Greek tragedian Sophocles and the text of Ecclesiastes in his book Better ...

To date, over 1,600 human remains have been excavated from burial grounds across Hokkaido. Rarely engaging with local communities in obtaining their free, prior and informed consent, this has caused ...

“The villagers were the first to notice the difference,” Vibhu Prakash Mathur recalls. It was the mid-1990s, and Prakash was working at Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan state, India. “One day they ...

Maasai lose lawsauit Meanwhile, the Masai members of the Ngorongoro community filled a lawsuit in the East African Court of Justice (EACJ), in attempt to force the government of Tanzania to respect ...

And so the migration began. Hundreds of “jobless” elephants started heading home. Processions of pachyderms, with chains still around their legs and necks, led by mahouts were seen on long journeys ...

Like many other African countries, Ghana suffers from a lack of adequate power infrastructure as well as energy production capacity, as continuous blackouts and a lack of electricity for rural ...

Animals can sometimes carry harmful germs like viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi that spread to people and cause illnesses which are known as zoonotic diseases or zoonoses. Around 60 per cent of ...

For Mayan communities in the Mexican state of Campeche beekeeping is a millennial tradition and a strong part of their identity. The production of honey and beeswax from the Melipona bee (Xunan Kav in ...