by Gary Chandler | Jan 19, 2020 | Climate Change, Forest Conservation
Half Of Global GDP Depends On Nature Ecosystems around the world are on the verge of collapse. It is a planetary emergency. Humanity has already wiped out 83 percent of wild mammals and half of all plants and severely altered three-quarters of ice-free land and...
by Gary Chandler | Mar 20, 2014 | Climate Change, Global Warming
Global Warming Gaining Momentum The world’s largest general scientific society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has issued an uncharacteristically blunt call to action on climate change. The must-read new report by the AAAS’s Climate Science...
by Gary Chandler | Aug 28, 2012 | Forest Conservation, Reforestation
Forests Are Powerful Carbon Sinks Have you hugged a tree today? When we stop to think about their importance to life, a big hug is in order. Some common and dangerous air pollutants found in cities can be absorbed by plants at far greater rates than ever suspected....
by Gary Chandler | Jan 18, 2012 | Biodiversity, Rainforest Conservation
Deforestation Destroying Latin America Working to protect the Choco-Andean Corridor in NW Ecuador (2.5 million acres), one of the most species-rich regions on the planet with over 10 percent of the world’s threatened bird species. Fundacion Maquipucuna, the recipient...
by Gary Chandler | Jan 25, 2008 | Indigenous Land, Rainforest Conservation
Majority Of Peru’s Timber Exports Illegal Peru must grant further land titles to Amazonian tribes as a last resort to halting severe deforestation, the country’s main indigenous group announced. The government should award 49 million acres (20 million...
