TAG: Biodiversity

An Untamed Wilderness: 22-Year Old Produces Documentary on the Peruvian Amazon

Jeremy Hance, Mongabay Waking Times Spending a year on the Tambopata River in Peru’s deep Amazon, allowed 22-year-old Tristan Thompson, to record stunning video of the much the region’s little seen, and little known, wildlife. Thompson, a student at the University of the West of England, has turned his footage into a new documentary An Untamed

Losing Just One Pollinator Species Leads to Big Plant Declines

Jeremy Hance, Mongabay Waking Times A shocking new study finds that losing just one pollinator species could lead to major declines in plant productivity, a finding that has broad implications for biodiversity conservation. Looking at ten bumblebee species in Colorado alpine meadows, two scientists found that removing a single bee species cut flower seed production

Mexico Protests Monsanto With a Carnival of Corn

Alex Mensing, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times On May 25, an estimated two million people across 50 countries participated in the global March Against Monsanto. Organizers estimate that these protests against the U.S.-based transnational biotech corporation were one of the largest days of coordinated action in history. Yet, despite the high level of coordination, the local


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