Did you know that parrotfish covers itself with mucus cocoon at night?
By Gregg Yan
A bicolor parrotfish
Over the past years, social media posts have been circulating about the need to avoid parrotfish, popularly called loro or molmol in public markets.
These posts have been shared te
CLIMATE targets and energy demands mean the human impact on the North Sea remains unavoidable. Even as oil and gas structures are decommissioned the offshore renewables industry is bringing the next phase of construction to northern waters. The impact of man-made structures on the marine environment has drawn increasing scientific attention, and several studies in recent years have discovered that nature beneath the waves is as capable of colonising artificial objects as is often seen on land where development and nature intertwine. Woven into the fibre of all climate change dialogue is the question of biodiversity loss. Future economic development, including that in the North Sea, needs to identify how we can protect, restore and manage the ecosystems our activities disrupt.
Pasha 105: Two academics weigh in on Botswana allowing elephant hunting
The Conversation
29 Apr 2021, 04:44 GMT+10
Botswana recently offered the rights to shoot around 300 elephants. There have been mixed feelings about this decision. Some say licensed hunting is ecologically necessary. They also say rural communities need revenue from hunting and are at risk of human-wildlife conflict. Others have criticised it heavily, disputing the claim that hunting is a solution to various problems and pointing to its negative consequences.
Botswana is home to about one third of Africa s elephants and the numbers have increased over the years. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has categorised savanna elephants as endangered, but they can be hunted if the decision to allow it is backed by scientific evidence.
The birds Europe’s only long-distance migratory dove spend a third of the year at their breeding grounds in the Mediterranean including Israel and Europe, overwintering in the African Sahel.
A European turtle dover shot dead by a ‘sport’ hunter in the Hula Valley in northern Israel, September 2, 2020. (KKL-JNF Chief Birdwatcher, Yaron Cherka)
Their numbers have been in freefall since the 1970s.
Down by 50 percent in Europe over the last 16 years, drops of more than 90% have been recorded in countries such as the UK.
In light of this rapid decline, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature recently upgraded the turtle dove’s status from vulnerable to globally threatened three categories away from extinct.
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