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April 28, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Video: Madagascar could become "Haiti-like"

Niall O'Connor from the World Wildlife Fund warns in a Carte Blanche production that if the ecological destruction of Madagascar continues, the poor island country could become "Haiti-like", where he says, "most of the biodiversity, most of the forests...

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, animals, biodiversity, conservation, corruption, economics, endangered species, environment, environmental economics, extinction, governance, green, hunting, illegal logging, jeremy hance, Lemurs, logging, madagascar, mongabay, politics, poverty, primates, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests

April 22, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day

The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones. A generation or two before ours and one might speak of saving the beauty

Posted in: Conservation corner, Syndicated | Tags: agriculture, animals, asia, avoided deforestation, biodiversity, bold and dangerous ideas that may save the world, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, china, china's demand for resources, climate change, conservation, deforestation, disasters, ecological beauty, ecological services, ecology, economics, ecosystem services, endangered species, environment, environmental economics, environmental politics, environmental services, ex-situ conservation, extinction, Fishing, food, food crisis, forest carbon, forests, global warming mitigation, governance, green, impact of climate change, India, jeremy hance, madagascar, marine conservation, oceans, parks, payments for ecosystem services, payments for environmental services, politics, population, poverty, poverty alleviation, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, reforestation, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, sustainability, sustainable development, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, water, wildlife

April 22, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day

The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones. A generation or two before ours and one might speak of saving the beauty

Posted in: Conservation corner, Syndicated | Tags: agriculture, animals, asia, avoided deforestation, biodiversity, bold and dangerous ideas that may save the world, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, china, china's demand for resources, climate change, conservation, deforestation, disasters, ecological beauty, ecological services, ecology, economics, ecosystem services, endangered species, environment, environmental economics, environmental politics, environmental services, ex-situ conservation, extinction, Fishing, food, food crisis, forest carbon, forests, global warming mitigation, governance, green, impact of climate change, India, jeremy hance, madagascar, marine conservation, oceans, parks, payments for ecosystem services, payments for environmental services, politics, population, poverty, poverty alleviation, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, reforestation, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, sustainability, sustainable development, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, water, wildlife

March 15, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Environmental groups call on Delmas to cancel shipment of illegally logged wood from Madagascar

Pressure is building on the French shipping company Delmas to cancel large shipments of rosewood, which was illegally logged in Madagascar during the nation's recent coup. Today two environmental groups, Global Witness and the Environmental Investigati...

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, biodiversity, china, china's demand for resources, conservation, corruption, deforestation, economics, endangered species, environment, Environmental Law, environmental politics, forestry, forests, governance, green, illegal logging, islands, jeremy hance, Lemurs, logging, madagascar, mongabay, parks, poaching, politics, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, Rainforest deforestation, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, wildlife trade

March 14, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Thousands of tons of illegal timber in Madagascar readied for export

As the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, argues in Paris that more funding is needed to stop deforestation and mitigate climate change, a shipment of illegal rosewood is being readied for export in Madagascar by a French company with the

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, biodiversity, china, china's demand for resources, conservation, corruption, deforestation, economics, endangered species, environment, Environmental Law, environmental politics, forestry, forests, governance, green, illegal logging, islands, jeremy hance, Lemurs, logging, madagascar, mongabay, parks, poaching, politics, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, Rainforest deforestation, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, wildlife trade

March 04, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Photos: Madagascar’s wonderful and wild frogs, an interview with Sahonagasy

To save Madagascar's embattled and beautiful amphibians, scientists are turning to the web. A new site built by herpetologists, Sahonagasy, is dedicated to gathering and providing information about Madagascar's unique amphibians in a bid to save them f...

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, amphibian crisis, amphibians, animals, biodiversity, climate change, conservation, corruption, deforestation, ecological beauty, ecology, endangered species, environment, environmental politics, Evolution, extinction, forests, Fragmentation, frogs, green, herps, illegal logging, impact of climate change, in-situ conservation, interviews, islands, jeremy hance, logging, madagascar, mongabay, pet trade, Photos, poaching, poverty, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, saving rainforests, saving species from extinction, technology, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, wildlife, wildlife trade

February 18, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Humans push half of the world’s primates toward extinction, lemurs in particular trouble

Of the known 634 primate species in the world 48 percent are currently threatened with extinction, making mankind's closes relatives one of the most endangered animal groups in the world. In order to bring awareness to the desperate state of

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, agriculture, animals, asia, biodiversity, climate change, conservation, deforestation, endangered species, environment, environmental politics, extinction, forestry, forests, green, hunting, islands, jeremy hance, Lemurs, logging, madagascar, mammals, mongabay, parks, pet trade, Photos, poaching, politics, primates, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, saving species from extinction, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, vietnam, wildlife

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Video: Madagascar could become "Haiti-like"

World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day

World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day

Environmental groups call on Delmas to cancel shipment of illegally logged wood from Madagascar

Thousands of tons of illegal timber in Madagascar readied for export

Photos: Madagascar’s wonderful and wild frogs, an interview with Sahonagasy

Humans push half of the world’s primates toward extinction, lemurs in particular trouble

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