Archive for 'Protected Areas'
Ecotourism: Green Problem or Green Solution?
Ecotourism is often presented as the savior for wildlife and wild places — providing local communities with financial incentives to preserve nature while also reducing poaching and development pressure.
But, lately, others question whether rich Westerners jetting around the world really help much at all: They disturb animals, create demands for new development and only employ [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Green Living, North America, Protected Areas, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: air travel, avitourism, Brazil, carbon footprint, Climate Change, ecotourism, ecotourism bad, ecotourism good, Galapagos, green travel, Matt Miller, Namibia, Serengeti herd, tourism, Yellowstone National Park
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Worry About Air Pollution, Not Just Climate Change
Yes, global warming is a big deal and a big challenge. But sometimes I get so frustrated by conservation and environmental NGO’s for not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time — in other words, for failing to appreciate the real lesson of greenhouse gas emissions.
The real lesson is there is [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Animals, Asia Pacific, Birds, China, Climate Change, North America, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: air pollution, Arctic haze, asthma ozone, Climate Change, Copenhagen, dust storm West, EPA greenhouse gas, global nature, global pollution, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, mercury, mercury baby, mercury healthy, mercury wildlife, National Academy air pollution, National Academy of Sciences, Nature Conservancy air pollution, Nature Conservancy climate, organic pollutant health, ozone, particulate matter, particulate matter health, persistent organic pollutants, Peter Kareiva, pollution agreement, pollution biodiversity
Comments: 5
Beyond ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’: Why Conservation Needs a Rethink
Of course this year’s Nobel Peace Prize got all the press — as that prize nearly always does. The Nobel Prize in economics, by contrast, went almost unnoticed.
That’s a double shame. First, because it was given to Dr. Elinor Ostrom of the Indiana University and Arizona State University — the first woman ever to win [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2009 under Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: conservation funding, conservation fundraising, conservation strategy, easement, Elinor Ostrom, Garrett Hardin, international conservation, national park, Nobel economics, Ostrom commons, Sanjayan, Sanjayan commons, Science magazine, sustainability, Tragedy of the Commons, wilderness common
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Haunted (Bat) House!
Late October brings a slight chill to the air and shadows fall early as we dare to tip-toe through the bat trailer. Secreted within a dark corner of The Nature Conservancy’s 12,000-acre Disney Wilderness Preserve in Florida, this trailer is not for the timid.
A rare maternity colony of southeastern big-eared bats has claimed the trailer as home. They [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Animals, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: bat cave, bat colony, bat maternity colony, bat trailer, Disney Wilderness Preserve, florida, southeastern big-eared bat
Comments: 2
The Noel Kempff Climate Action Project: The Conservancy Responds to a Greenpeace Report
Thirteen years ago, The Nature Conservancy teamed up with Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza, American Electric Power Company, BP America and Pacificorp to buy out four logging concessions adjacent to Bolivia’s Noel Kempff Mercado National Park.
In addition to protecting almost 832,000 hectares of forest habitat and doubling the size of the national park, this purchase [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2009 under Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Forests, Indigenous Communities, Media, Protected Areas, South America, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: American Electric Power, Berau, Bolivia, bp america, Brazil, Brazil deforestation, carbon sequestration, Climate Change, climate forest, Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests, deforestation, deforestation climate change, forest carbon, forest carbon certified, Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Noel Kempff, Indonesia, Indonesia deforestation, Jonathan Hoekstra, Noel, Noel Kempff, Pacificorp, Para, REDD, sustainable livelihood forest, UNESCO World Heritage
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Fish and People on the Edge: Why the Zambezi River Looks OK, But Isn’t
How do you convince people that a river they’ve known their whole lives is not the river it once was…or could be?
That turned out to be my challenge last week, when I traveled to Zambia in support of The Nature Conservancy’s new project to restore the Zambezi River. After several days of meetings with our [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Fish, Fresh Water, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, Water Conservation.
Tags: Africa dam, dam management, dams, environmental flows, fishing, floodplain, Jeff Opperman, Lower Zambezi National Park, river health, Zambezi dam, Zambezi fishing, Zambezi overfishing, zambezi river, Zambia
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The National Parks-Nature Conservancy Connection
Tom Cassidy is director of of The Nature Conservancy’s federal land programs.
America’s national parks are a constant in my life, both with my family and my work as the Conservancy’s director of federal land programs.
And sometimes the parks, the Conservancy and my work and family come together…as in June 2008, when I traveled to Badlands [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2009 under Conservation Issues, North America, Protected Areas, United States.
Tags: acre baca ranch, badlands national park, ben nighthorse campbell, black footed ferret, Conata Basin, congressman scott mcinnis, gale norton, great sand dunes, great sand dunes national, great sand dunes national park, interior bruce babbitt, ken burns, Ken Salazar, native american heritage, park superintendent, pine ridge indian reservation, sheep mountain, wayne allard, western dakotas
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Yellowstone in China?
Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts.
How are U.S. perceptions of China sadly out of date? One example lies in how China’s first national park was created.
China [...]
Posted: October 5th, 2009 under China, Conservation Issues, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Charles Bedford, China, China national park, China nature, China park, Diquing park, Great Sand Dunes Alamosa, Great Sand Dunes Allard, Great Sand Dunes Salazar, Potatso park, Pudacuo, Pudacuo park, The Nature Conservancy China, Yellowstone, Yunnan nature, Yunnan park
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 2
It’s Friday and you might already be thinking about your weekend, or at least the cocktail you’ll start the weekend with at 5:01 pm today. If you like your martinis straight-up and dry, this morning’s news round-up featuring climate change is for you. We hope it doesn’t leave you shaken… just a little stirred.
Bill McKibben has a [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 under Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Policy, Protected Areas, United States.
Tags: agriculture, Bill McKibben, Climate Change, climate economists, food production, ken burns, National Parks, New Republic, President Obama, Southeast drought
Comments: 1
Indigenous Lands Conserved in Northern Australia
Indigenous Aboriginal ranger Romeo Lane points out an ancient painting of a six-legged goanna lizard to the curious crowd of media and visitors — myself included — that surrounds him.
The painting is just one of thousands that scatter the escarpments of Arnhem Land in the very northern tip of Australia’s vast tropical savanna. This rich cultural [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under Australia, Deserts and Aridlands, Fire, Indigenous Communities, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Arnhem land, Australia conservation, bushfire, Djelk and Warddeken Indigenous Protected Areas, Djelk Rangers, goanna lizard, indigenous lands conservation, traditional fire practices, tropical savanna, Warddeken Manwurrk Rangers
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