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Article content B.C. conservation officers say a man was injured earlier this week when he was attacked by a black bear while he was walking his dog on a Metro Vancouver trail. The Conservation Officer Service says in a Facebook post that the incident happened on Wednesday at around 2:30 p.m., when the bear engaged […]
In order to use remote locations to record and assess the behaviour of wildlife and environmental conditions, the GAIA Initiative developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that reliably and automatically classifies behaviours of white-backed vultures using animal tag data. As scavengers, vultures always look for the next carcass. With the help of tagged animals and […]
The City Environment and Natural Resources Office (City ENRO) of Puerto Princesa has formalized a partnership with Birds Taiwan (BT, Taiwan) to enhance bird conservation and education initiatives through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on November 17 during the closing program of the 7th Puerto Princesa Underground River (PPUR) International Bird Photography Race. City […]
Spotted: It’s estimated that 10 to 47 per cent of the Amazon rainforest could be at risk of collapsing by 2050 because of environmental and human-related stresses like logging, mining, and oil drilling. Deforestation from these activities, coupled with climate change, is warming and drying the region, putting entire ecosystems under threat. Now, the Amazon […]
Although landscape, nature, and wildlife photographers lamented the loss of Outdoor Photographer earlier this year, Wild Eye has stepped in to not only fill the void but chart a new, modern direction for a nature photography publication. The first issue — digital only, for now — recently landed alongside a new website and a promise […]
Delegates at the U.N. talks in Colombia created a fund that would compensate countries for the use of genetic information. Source link
Spotted: Altyn Dala, the “Golden Steppe”, is a vast belt of grassland dotted with wetlands and desert that stretches thousands of miles across Kazakhstan. It is one of the world’s most unique habitats – but it is also threatened with destruction from climate change, intensive agriculture, and industrialisation. How is one initiative working to change […]
Summit talks on how to mobilize the billions of dollars needed to halt biodiversity loss this decade were stuck on Monday. Countries were at an impasse over how to fund conservation and other key decisions as the U.N. COP16 biodiversity summit entered its second week on Monday, with nations pledging millions of dollars rather than […]
John Williamson — He doesn’t mind a gum tree(Photo courtesy Bill McAuley | billmcauleyphotographer.com) John Williamson AM is an Australian country music and folk music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, TV host and proud conservationist. (Photo, circa 1990s.) According to Wikipedia, he has released over 50 albums and has sold more than 4,000,000 albums in Australia. His best-known hit is arguably ‘True Blue‘, but if you toss his name […]
The newly elected Northern Territory government wants to grant itself sweeping new powers to exempt major projects from environmental assessments in a move described by conservationists and Indigenous groups as authoritarian and anti-democratic. A leaked consultation document, seen by Guardian Australia, outlines how a new Territory Coordinator (TC) would have powers to “step in” and […]