New mums ‘basking’
in glory of world exclusive pup births
Snorkellers have today witnessed basking shark behaviour never
before seen anywhere in the world. Up to five basking shark pups have been born
to two females during a mass gathering of the world’s second largest fish, off
the coast of Cornwall.
For generations, parents
have relied on the innocent pleasure of I-Spy, the Alphabet Game or 20 Questions
to keep children amused on long, boring car journeys.
The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham
and the Black Country is very pleased to announce that it has been awarded £442,000
towards its innovative Black Country Living Landscape project by Natural England
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If you fail to plan, you’ll plan to fail – our wildlife. That’s
the message that the RSPB is giving the government in their response to the Port
Master Plans (PMPs) guidance.
Scotland's future
marred by damaging national developments?
RSPB
Scotland welcomes the publication today of the second National Planning Framework
(NPF2) for Scotland, but is disappointed that potentially environment wrecking
proposals have not been dropped.
Environment campaigners today criticised UK Government delays
on rules for ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Forth, asking whether it needed
the threat of a disaster to produce some action.
Conservationists are looking to the United States to help re-establish
the authority of the International Whaling Commission after IWC delegates this
week failed to reach a deal to regulate global whaling.
Hint of conservation push brightens whaling stalemate
The International Whaling Commission(IWC) may be shifting towards
a more conservation-oriented role after this week backing an ambitious Australian
plan for non-lethal whale research.
The Sahara Desert is crossing the Mediterranean, according to
Italian environmental protection group Legambiente which warns that the livelihoods
of 6.5 million people living along its shores could be at risk.
Wadden Sea, Dolomites are new World Heritage sites
The tidal flats and wetlands of the Wadden Sea in Germany and
the Netherlands, and Italy's Dolomite mountains have been added to UNESCO's World
Heritage List, it was announced Friday.
People and giant pandas are still coming into conflict. So concludes
a report into the firewood collecting habits of people living in one of China's
largest panda reserves.
Hidden whale culture
could be critical to species survival
Though it sounds at first like a marine biologist’s take on political
correctness, respecting the cultural diversity of whales may be essential to saving
them.
The world's emissions of the greenhouse gases causing global
warming should peak in 2020 and then start to decline, the British Government
is proposing in the run-up to the global climate conference taking place at Copenhagen
in December.
Barack Obama's climate
change bill passes first vote
US
President Barack Obama's plan to force American industries to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions and other greenhouse gases as part of a 'cap and trade' system has passed
an important hurdle in the House of Representatives.
China now taking climate
change seriously: EU's Barroso
China,
deemed vital to the fight against global warming, is now taking the issue of climate
change "extremely seriously," EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said Friday.
China welcomes U.S. climate bill, says more needed
China's top climate change official on Friday welcomed a U.S.
climate change bill but said Washington needed to take stronger action to ensure
success at year-end talks to settle a global framework on warming.
The
Arctic Ocean could become corrosive to marine life within a matter of decades,
according to leading scientists who will be attending a critical meeting in Plymouth
next week.
Major economies including the United States and China are considering
setting a goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 when they hold
a summit in Italy next month, a draft document showed.
Russia is the weakest link of climate change talks - WWF
Russia’s announcement to reduce its emissions by 10 to 15 percent
by 2020 is disappointing and sets a bad example for other countries who are trying
to negotiate a global deal to save the world from dangerous climate change.
