Keystone Issues

Say you want to convince your father-in-law to get involved in conservation - in rescuing biodiversity.

Article bt Michael Soule, Adjunct Professor. School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

We're long past due for a new Climate Bill in the US, and hopefully in Copenhagen our global leaders will hash out a new climate treaty and the US will hop onto this speeding train. There are no single steps toward reducing our impacts on climate- it's going to take multi-layered top-down and bottom up leadership, regulation, community and individual action address these critical issues. Especially as 3 billion people around the globe reach toward a better purchase on the economic ladder, and as China and India increase their impacts in the global economy, while developing countries seek ways to [read more...]

The Carnivores Conference hosted by the Defenders of Wildlife from15th to 18^th November, 2009 in Denver was both an interesting and informative event.  The focus of the conference was on how we should adapt our carnivores conservation practices and policies to the challenges of climate change, expanding human populations, and landscapes altered by highways and border fences.

The presentations were packed with research data from all corners of the world including North and South America, Asia, Europe and Africa.

The plenary session set the tone of the conference as it [read more...]

Common species in decline in National Parks
July 2009. Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other ‘common' animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within Kenya's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released this week.

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/kenya-wildlife-decline.html

Lions in Kenya's Amboseli National Park face extinction within a few years unless action is taken to help them. (June 12, 2008)

Full article here...