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FACT Receives New Funding to Expand Work on Environmental Crimes
This month, the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition secured new grant funding through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to expand its existing work addressing illicit financial systems that enable and reward the perpetrators of environment crimes. With additional resources from the Andes-Amazon Initiative, FACT will work to close regulatory loopholes, increase enforcement…
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Tech tools in the polar bear conservation toolbox
Monitoring polar bears and their Arctic habitats is critical in our quest to understand how they are responding to climate change—especially diminishing sea ice. When the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears was reached 50 years ago, researchers had few options at their disposal for monitoring polar bears. But thanks to technology, that’s not…
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ASK THE EXPERT: Dr Oldman Koboto on COP28 climate talks
Dr Oldman Oduetse Koboto is Adviser and Manager of the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub (CCFAH), based in Mauritius. He leads CCFAH’s work to support Commonwealth countries – particularly small and other vulnerable states – in unlocking international climate finance to enable climate action. Tell us a bit about your background and how you came…
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Brookfield Zoo unveils stunning photo gallery showcasing Punta San Juan conservation success
Images featured in Book by Renowned Peruvian Photographer Brookfield Zoo is thrilled to announce the installation of a captivating photo gallery on the exterior wall of The Living Coast, featuring 32 mesmerizing images that highlight the remarkable landscapes and animals of the Punta San Juan Marine Protected Area in Peru, South America. These larger-than-life images…
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Stunning Sunflowers at Pepper Ranch
It is mid-October and the Conservation Collier Program opened Pepper Ranch Preserve for a special viewing of the Southeastern Sunflowers (Helianthus agrestis). For Floridians – they were treated to spectacular fall colors from the blooming sunflowers. The two-mile hike (one mile each way) was lined with hundreds of thousands of sunflowers leading the viewer to…
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Bowerman Receives Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award
Northern Michigan University alumnus and renowned eagle researcher William Bowerman (’91 MA) was among three innovators to receive the 2023 Lowell Thomas Award from The Explorers Club, an international professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research, scientific exploration and resource conservation. The ceremony was held last weekend in Oslo, Norway. The Munising native joins…
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Has China transferred its phased-out capacity to BRI partner countries and caused damage to their local environment?
BEIJING, Oct. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — An interview with Sun Wanlu, commentator of China.org.cn, on some facts concerning the BRI: Has China transferred its phased-out capacity to BRI partner countries and caused damage to their local environment? I don’t think the BRI has ever been involved in any actions that have transferred phased-out capacity from China…
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How China is attempting to change nature conservation
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Conservation Conversation promotes sustainability through hope and effort
Purdue Fort Wayne’s Environmental Resources Center invites the community to participate in its annual Conservation Conversation Thursday, October 26. As one of PFW’s Centers of Excellence, its mission is to promote the understanding and conservation of the natural resources of the region through scientific research, educational opportunities and outreach. WBOI’s Julia Meek discusses the evolution…
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Zimbabwe Envi Minister green lights new Hwange tourism complex
(Hwange, Zimbabwe –20 October, 2023) – Construction has started on a tourism complex at Hwange National Park, expected to improve security and re-ignite the tourism potential of Zimbabwe’s largest protected area. Construction of the complex at Hwange’s main entrance gate received the green light from Zimbabwe’s Minister for Environment, Climate, and Wildlife, Mangaliso Ndlovu. It…
