Billionaire Intends to Buy 15% of the Planet to Protect It
John Vibes – Wyss hopes that his contribution will be able to protect 30% of the planet by the year 2030.
TAG: conservation
Fortnite Creator is Buying Thousands of Acres of Forest to Stop it From Being Cut Down
John Liberty – He has purchased nearly 40,000 acres over the last decade.
Inspired by a Near-Death Experience, This Man is Cloning the World’s Tallest Trees to Save Them
Vic Bishop – This is what a single person can do in the face of extraordinary ecological crises.
Couple Proves Nature Can be Healed by Transforming Barren Land into Sanctuary
Anna Hunt – Driven by their passion for nature, this couple has done the impossible.
Official Rescue of Tigers Underway at Thailand’s World Famous Selfie Temple
Vic Bishop – A huge win for animal rights activists who’ve been fighting exploitation of tigers for years.
Peru Creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’ for Uncontacted Tribes & Endangered Wildlife
Rhett A. Butler – Peru sets up 3.3M acre reserve home to un-contacted tribes, endangered wildlife.
Woman Defeats Mine, Saves Wilderness, Wins $175,000
Morgan Erickson-Davis – When a mining operation threatened this pristine piece of wilderness, she acted.
5 Reasons to Have Hope for the Planet – Jane Goodall
Rhett Butler & Jeremy Hance – “Jane Goodall is not only arguably the most famous conservationist who ever lived, but also the most well-known and respected female scientist on the planet today…”
U.S. Citizens Willing to Spend Billions to Protect Monarch Butterflies
Paul Sutherland, Mongabay Waking Times New research shows most Americans place importance on the protection of the ailing monarch butterfly, which is experiencing a steep decline in numbers. The study, published in Conservation Letters, found nearly three-quarters of those surveyed support conservation efforts for the iconic species, and are willing to spend several billion dollars to …
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 …
Costa Rican Environmentalist Pays Ultimate Price for His Dedication to Sea Turtles
Jeremy Hance, Mongabay Waking Times On the evening of May 30th, 26-year-old Jairo Mora Sandoval was murdered on Moin beach near Limón, Costa Rica, the very stretch of sand where he courageously monitored sea turtle nests for years even as risks from poachers rose, including threats at gunpoint. A dedicated conservationist, Sandoval was kidnapped along …
Southern US Logging Soars to Meet Foreign Biofuel Demand
Tanya Dimitrova, Mongabay Waking Times In order to meet the European Union’s goal of 20% renewables by 2020, some European utility companies are moving away from coal and replacing it with wood pellet fuel. The idea is simple: trees will regrow and recapture the carbon released in the burning of wood pellets, making the process …
5 Monumental Actions Critical to Averting Global Environmental Crisis and Protecting the Biosphere
David Olson, Mongabay Waking Times Human-caused changes to our biosphere—the global total of the world’s ecosystems—are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded. We may survive, we may painfully adapt, but …
Palm Oil and Our Future
LeAnn Fox and Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Guest Writers Waking Times Palm oil is used on a wide variety of products, including foods. One of these companies is Kellogg’s, maker of a wide variety of food products and best known for its cereals. While Kellogg’s touts its environmentally-friendly practices, its actual practices are far from being so. …
SPOIL – The Fight to Save the Great Bear Rainforest
Waking Times In the battle to keep big oil from spoiling the earth’s most precious natural gems, it helps to take a close look at the treasures we are wasting before the damage is done. SPOIL is a powerful, award winning documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest, in Canada’s British Columbia, showing the splendor of …
Protecting the Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Video)
Directly below this world treasure, however, lies an estimated 846 million barrels of oil that Ecuador is proposing to leave untapped in an effort to prohibit the burning of these fuels and the subsequent release of this CO2 gas and destruction of the rainforest. To do so, Ecuador is seeking contributions from oil producing nations to assist in the protection of this gem.