• Health

63 Organizations Sign Letter to Biden, Protect Wildlife to Prevent Pandemics

• #30x30
• animals
• climate change
• nature
• pandemic
• wildlife
• zoonotic

A coalition of 63 health, wildlife, and environmental organizations has written a letter urging the Biden administration to adopt policies to combat the increased threat of zoonotic disease spillover into human populations. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say that human population expansion and increased interactions with wildlife, present increased chances for future pandemics as well.

Why This Matters: According to the World Health Organization, there are over 200 known zoonoses, diseases that have jumped from non-human animals to humans.

• People

Oh, Happy Day!

• animals
• International Day of Happiness
• nature
• wellbeing
• wildlife

By Beth Allgood, President, OneNature It was a long hike, and rugged. The Himalayan altitude was almost as breathtaking as the scenery, which became more stunning with every switchback turn. I had arrived in Bhutan two days before on my second trip to the remote mountain kingdom.  The first, twenty-four months earlier, was to attend […]

• Green Finance

UN Recognizes GDP Alone Doesn’t Measure Economic Wellbeing

• 30 by 30
• natural capital
• nature

Protecting nature and maximizing the capacity of land and water to sequester carbon is one of the best tools to help fight global climate change. Yet many of Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems are in serious jeopardy: for example, a first-of-its-kind study from Frontiers in Forests and Global Change revealed that the Amazon rainforest emits more […]

• Sustainability

A Delicate Balance: Building Back Tourism In Ways That Support Nature and Communities

• #COVID
• communities
• healing
• nature
• pandemic
• tourism
• wildlife

By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer “Nature is healing” memes aside, the past year of paused travel has had an unexpected downside for wildlife worldwide. In some countries, fewer tourists and cruise ships have given animals a reprieve, like whales off the coast of Alaska no longer subjected to five months of constant cruise ship […]

• Energy

Wind Energy Company in the Business of Saving Condors

• California Condor
• nature
• renewables
• wind energy

by Natasha Lasky, ODP Staff Writer The world desperately needs more sources of emissions-free energy, yet as these power sources are brought online, we must also contend with their impact on animals and ecosystems. In California, government officials are trying to rescue California condors, which are critically endangered, from being killed by the blades of […]

• Land

House Passes Historic Conservation Bill to Protect 3M Acres

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• biodiversity
• Congress
• conservation
• Deb Haaland
• nature

by Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer Nearly 3 million acres of federal land could gain new protections after the House of Representatives passed a major conservation bill last Friday. The bill, called the Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act, rolls together eight bills previously introduced. If passed in the Senate, it would: Designate 1.5 […]