Can Carbon Finance Pay for the Protection of Forests?
Let’s celebrate Nature! Last month the world celebrated Earth Day, 51 years after the first mass gatherings were held recognising the fundamental importance for human societies of our planetary life-support system. On the 5th June we are urged by the United Nations Environment Programme to celebrate World Environment Day, being promoted as a chance for our generation to […]
Responding to Covid-19, Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss
Responding to the Covid-19 crisis informs how we deal with the dual challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. I am writing this blog over an Easter Weekend like no other. In common with over half of the world’s population, I am with my family and under “lockdown” conditions due to the outbreak of the […]
What has Biodiversity ever done for us?
The most watched television show in the UK in 2017 was the final episode of “Blue Planet II” narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The documentary highlighted the effects that plastic pollution is having on marine ecosystems, suggesting that micro-plastics in the food chain may cause whale calves to be stillborn. The response in the UK […]
A Natural Connection?
Over the last few weeks there have been two contrasting media stories about zoo-kept Gorillas, one of man’s closest evolutionary relatives. The first inundated the web when Harambe, a Western Lowland Gorilla, was shot dead to protect the life of a 3-year-old boy who had slipped into the animal’s enclosure at Cincinatti Zoo. The global […]