Communities Taking a Sting Out of Poaching With Alternative Livelihoods — Global Issues

Communities Taking a Sting Out of Poaching With Alternative Livelihoods — Global Issues

IFAW recently translocated elephants into Kasungu National Park, which is on the Malawi-Zambia border. IFAW is implementing the Room to Roam initiative so that these elephants can have safe passage in the corridor. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS by Charles Mpaka (chipata, zambia) Wednesday, November 01, 2023 Inter Press Service CHIPATA, ZAMBIA, Nov…

Human Action Pushing the World Closer to Environmental Tipping Points, UN University Warns — Global Issues

Human Action Pushing the World Closer to Environmental Tipping Points, UN University Warns — Global Issues

COP 15 in Paris. A reminder of global warming and glacier melting. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS by Alison Kentish (saint lucia) Thursday, October 26, 2023 Inter Press Service SAINT LUCIA, Oct 26 (IPS) – A new report by the University lists six areas of grave concern and states that in the absence…

How to Defend the Environment and Survive in the Attempt, as a Woman in Mexico — Global Issues

How to Defend the Environment and Survive in the Attempt, as a Woman in Mexico — Global Issues

Dozens of women environmentalists participated in Mexico City in the launch of the Voices of Life campaign by eight non-governmental organizations on Oct. 12, 2023, which brings together hundreds of activists in five of the country’s 32 states. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy / IPS by Emilio Godoy (mexico city) Tuesday, October 24,…

Bringing the Piratininga Lagoon Back to Life in Brazil — Global Issues

Bringing the Piratininga Lagoon Back to Life in Brazil — Global Issues

An aerial view of Hacendita Cafubá, on the north shore of Piratininga, a lagoon in southeastern Brazil, when ponds that serve as a spillway and to collect sedimentation of polluted water were being built and filter gardens that clean the water of the Cafubá River before discharging its waters into…

Scientist with a Passion for Ocean Protection Elected IPBES Chair — Global Issues

Scientist with a Passion for Ocean Protection Elected IPBES Chair — Global Issues

The reef surrounding Namotu Island, Fiji, has experienced serious coral bleaching caused by increasing ocean temperatures. Credit: Beau Pilgrim / Climate Visuals by Alison Kentish (saint lucia) Tuesday, October 10, 2023 Inter Press Service SAINT LUCIA, Oct 10 (IPS) – The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) recently…

Ecuadorians Vote to Preserve Yasuní National Park, but Implementation Is the Problem — Global Issues

Ecuadorians Vote to Preserve Yasuní National Park, but Implementation Is the Problem — Global Issues

Oil workers are busy on the banks of the Tiputini river, on the northern border of the Yasuní National Park, in Ecuador’s Amazon region. CREDIT: Pato Chavez / Flickr by Carolina Loza (quito) Monday, October 09, 2023 Inter Press Service QUITO, Oct 09 (IPS) – The decision reached by Ecuadorians to…

Growing Appetite for Nutrient-Rich Native Indigenous Australian Foods — Global Issues

Growing Appetite for Nutrient-Rich Native Indigenous Australian Foods — Global Issues

Kalkani Choolburra, Aboriginal Programs Coordinator at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, showing the many uses of native plants. Here, she is weaving with a Lomandra leaf. Credit: Neena Bhandari/IPS by Neena Bhandari (sydney) Tuesday, October 03, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, Oct 03 (IPS) – Growing up in Sydney, Kalkani Choolburra,…

A New Local Oversight Structure to Achieve SDGS, Climate Action & Biodiversity Preservation — Global Issues

A New Local Oversight Structure to Achieve SDGS, Climate Action & Biodiversity Preservation — Global Issues

Credit: United Nations Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Friday, September 29, 2023 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Sep 29 (IPS) – The links between Agenda 2030 and SDGs, including climate action and biodiversity preservation are clear and straightforward. Yet, leveraging them, and bringing them to together in a unified framework,…

Collaboration for Conservation in Cyprus — Global Issues

Collaboration for Conservation in Cyprus — Global Issues

During UN-organized beach and buffer zone clean-ups, though, youth from both the north and south of Cyprus work side-by-side with peacekeepers. Credit: UNFICYP by Abigail Van Neely (united nations) Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) – Along the 180-kilometer-long buffer zone separating the north and…

Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources — Global Issues

Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources — Global Issues

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia) Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Inter Press Service KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 20 (IPS) – The growing and changing material requirements for new technologies have triggered natural resource scrambles for strategic minerals, generating dangerous rivalries fought out in the global South. Scrambles for resources…