Rhino poaching: Latest figures show a decade of bloodshed in South Africa
Posted in All Articles on 05/30/18
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Ground-breaking study highlights scale of Africa-Asia wildlife trade
Posted in All Articles on 05/30/18
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The Great Societal U-turn to Responsibility
Posted in Blog, News & Publications on 05/24/18
Randy Hayes’ SFSU Honorary Doctorate Speech May 24, 2018 -- AT&T Park -- San Francisco, California Nature Needs Half incoming chair, Randy Hayes, of the Rainforest Action Network, was honored by San Francisco State University as an honorary doctorate. The time for change has come, now it's our duty to lean in to it and embrace the "Great Societal U-Turn." A wise professor taught that when our careers are attached...
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Promise to Pachamama: Revisiting Bolivia's Historic Law of the Rights of Mother Earth
Posted in Blog, News & Publications on 05/10/18
When the passage of Bolivia’s Law of the Rights of Mother Earth was announced to the world in late 2010, international media described the new legislation in glowing terms --- transformative, astonishing, unprecedented, a turning point.
Read MoreHow to pay for saving biodiversity
Posted in Library, News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 05/10/18
Originally published by Science Magazine The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was one of the first international environmental agreements negotiated. In the same year, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for funding biodiversity conservation in developing countries was launched. Yet 25 years later, biological populations and diversity continue to decline both on land (1) and in the oceans (2). The main reasons are chronic underfunding of global biodiversity conservation;...
Read MoreIn Defense of Biodiversity
Posted in Library, News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 05/10/18
Originally published by Yale Environment 360 A number of biologists have recently made the argument that extinction is part of evolution and that saving species need not be a conservation priority. But this revisionist thinking shows a lack of understanding of evolution and an ignorance of the natural world. A few years ago, I helped lead a ship-based expedition along south Alaska during which several scientists and noted artists documented and made...
Read MoreWhy is connectivity important in the rainforest?
Posted in Multi-Media, News & Publications on 04/19/18
Dr. Tom Lovejoy, considered to be the "godfather of biodiversity," revels in the importance of a connected rainforest ecosystem in the Amazon and the role that his Camp 41 serves — embedding human aspiration in natural landscapes. [embed]] Video by Jayme Dittmar, Drone footage by James Brundige of Nature Needs Half Media, created for “Planet Forward in the Amazon”
Read MoreExtinction tsunami can be avoided
Posted in Library, News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 04/5/18
Originally published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America In many senses, the recent publication in PNAS by Ceballos et al. (1) on population losses and declines in vertebrates can be traced back to efforts early in the 20th century led by the American Committee for International Wildlife Protection to document the extinction phenomenon (2⇓–4). The focus at the time was very...
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