July 27, 2019
Stories tagged "endangered species"
July 16, 2019
New Lion King Live Action Film Aims To Protect Lions IRL
Disney’s new live-action film The Lion King will undoubtedly be a box office smash, but it will also mark the company’s largest public commitment to conservation by supporting a global campaign to raise awareness of the plight of lions called...July 15, 2019
Trump Fights Green Groups, Appeals to SCOTUS on Border Wall Funding
President Trump is challenging in the Supreme Court two orders from lower federal courts that froze funding for 100 miles of the President’s border wall because the President took the money from other federal programs and projects without Congress’ consent...May 30, 2019
Shrinking Protected Areas Causing Biodiversity Concerns to Rise
A new report from Conservation International published today in Science documents that governments have removed more than 500,000 square kilometers from protected areas and downgraded the protection for an additional 1.65 million square kilometers, the majority of...May 23, 2019
Green Groups Sue to Compel Endangered Species Listings
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Administration to compel them to list 8 “highly imperiled” species that were on the verge of being listed at the end of the Obama Administration. Since then their final listing decisions have languished...May 22, 2019
New Report Shows China Is Taking Up Coral Reef Destruction Again
According to a new report from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), new satellite images make it clear that China’ most destructive fishing vessels — their clam harvesting fleet – has...May 16, 2019
Interview of the Week: Azzedine Downes, ifaw
Azzedine is the President and CEO of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, where he leads their efforts to help people and animals thrive together in more than 40 countries around the globe. ODP: IFAW just celebrated its 50th anniversary. What have been the...May 8, 2019
After the UN Extinction Report — Now What?
The United Nations report on the extinction crisis that came out on Monday made a relatively big splash. ICYMI, a group of scientists called the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), determined that biodiversity is...May 6, 2019
Giraffes Under Consideration for US Endangered Species Listing
As we reported yesterday, biodiversity is declining at a precipitous rate, according to a new report by scientists from across the globe produced for the United Nations. In an effort to save one of the most iconic species on the planet — the African giraffe...May 3, 2019