EU plans to plant 3 billion trees and massively expand organic farming
20 May 2020
By 2030, a plan by the European Commission aims to reverse the loss of biodiversity by planting 3 billion extra trees and dramatically expanding organic farming
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How international conservation groups are betraying indigenous peoples
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Discrimination towards indigenous communities is rife among conservation groups – and sometimes enforced at the barrel of a gun, says Curtis Abraham
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A decade ago, Johan Rockström identified the limits to Earth's life support systems. From chemical pollution to climate change, we're veering into the danger zone - so why is he (cautiously) optimistic about the future?
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The Garden Jungle says our backyards can be every bit as exciting as African savannah or the Amazon jungle - if you know where and how to look
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The decline of insects is nature’s alarm bell ringing very loudly
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Extinction threats concern most of us when rhinos, elephants and orangutans are at risk, but revelations that insect biodiversity is on the brink should worry us more
To feed 11 billion people, we must share crop seeds as a common good
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Patent-free seeds can diversify our food supply and fight climate change, say Johannes Kotschi and Bernd Horneburg
Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene
21 May 2018
The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold
A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined
17 May 2018
The world’s nations have set up 200,000 protected areas in which nature is supposed to flourish, but in many cases the protection is pretty much theoretical
