• Sustainability

New Report Finds “Eco-Awakening” By Consumers Globally

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• biodiversity
• nature
• sustainability
• World Economic Forum
• World Wildlife Fund
• WWF

A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that overwhelmingly people around the world are seeking out sustainable goods and companies that operate that way — there has been a 71% increase in the popularity of web searches for sustainable goods over the past five years, and the percentage grew even during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Why This Matters:  When the G7’s big economic powers meet next month in the United Kingdom, both the climate and the biodiversity crisis will be on the agenda.

• Animals

Biden Administration Reverses Trump Rollback of Migratory Bird Treaty Act 

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• biodiversity
• Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• migratory birds
• Secretary Haaland

On Thursday, the Biden administration proposed a new rule that would reverse the Trump administration’s weakening of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The act was weakened in 2020, allowing industrial operations and individuals to unintentionally kill many birds without accountability. 

Why This Matters: The world is facing a biodiversity crisis, losing more species each year than ever before.

• Animals

A Hunt That Must End

• biodiversity
• CITES
• endangered species
• hunt
• IFAW
• seals
• trade

By Azzedine Downes In 1965, the Canadian government asked then 30-year-old Brian Davies to join a group of consultants to visit the annual seal “hunt” taking place in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Eastern Canada. The government sought feedback on how to make the hunt more humane. What Davies saw was there would change […]

• Land

New Study Shows Humans Have Shaped Nature for 12,000 Years

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• biodiversity
• indigenous people
• WWF

by Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer As far back as 12,000 years ago, humans were living on and interacting with three-quarters of the earth’s land, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using the most up-to-date mapping of global land use, the researchers found that by 10,000 BCE, […]

• Health

Now Is the Time for the Best Preventative Medicine: Biodiversity

• bats
• biodiversity
• COVID-19
• Infrastructure
• jobs
• pandemic
• zoonotic disease

By Azzedine Downes As we emerge from a year of lockdowns and begin to “build back better,” it is more important than ever to remember what we’ve learned. The pandemic has shown us the fragility of our economy and how reliant it is on our health. For without health, we potentially have nothing.  COVID 19 […]

• Cosmos

NASA Earth Science to “Meet the Moment”

• biodiversity
• climate change
• COID-19
• Earth
• Earth Science
• NASA
• satellites
• space
• water

This op/ed was originally featured in SpaceNews on March 30th and has been reprinted with their and the author’s permission.  By Nancy Colleton Small businesses and large multinational corporations face incredible challenges and uncertainty in today’s world. Whether an uncertain economy, continuing impact of a pandemic, or the rapidly changing natural environment of water scarcity, ecosystem […]