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UNEP / Duncan Moore / 25 Mar 2021
(UNEP) Did you know nature is one of humanity’s best defences for adapting to climate change? A new funding opportunity is scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation across the world. The call for proposals is now
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is launching in June this year. The goal is ambitious – to trigger a global movement for restoring the world’s ecosystems. This is not merely for nature’s sake, say experts. Mounting evidence shows that a global re-greening could help humanity adapt to climate change.
In cities, restoring urban forests cools the air and reduces heatwaves. On coasts, mangrove forests provide natural sea defences from storm surges. And in high altitudes, re-greening mountain slopes protects communities from climate-induced landslides and avalanches.
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Authorities in Botswana say the elephant hunting season will go ahead as planned, despite a world conservation body listing African elephants as endangered. Botswana’s government argues its elephant population – the world’s largest – is growing too fast and leading to human-wildlife conflict.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this month listed Africa’s Savannah elephants as endangered and its forest elephants as critically endangered.
But Botswana’s Director of Wildlife and National Paks, Kabelo Senyatso said the authorized elephant hunts will begin on April 6 as planned.
Senyatso said his government uses IUCN’s red list as one of the tools to implement conservation programs.
Daily Monitor
Thursday April 01 2021
The issue: Climate change
Our view: Climate change is now among the growing causes of internal displacement as people move from areas where environmental resources have been depleted or where the climatic conditions are too harsh, increasing pressure onurban centres and other areas in search of a livelihood.
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According to the recently released 2018-2019 Nema report titled the National State of the Environment Report, the country’s wetland coverage is fast declining and is set to be depleted in the next 25 years. The environmental watchdog says, we are losing at least 791 square kilometres, probably the size of several villages’ worth of wetlands each year. This is alarming news.
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