Superb Idea: The Bee Station
April 26, 2011 by green team
Filed under Design
This is a really great idea, even if only for their tagline: THERE IS NO PLAN BEE! LOL!
via GOOD.
Eating sharks’ fins for Chinese New Year is bad luck
OK, we made that up. But so are dozens of customs that purport to usher prosperity and longevity into our lives.
The fact of the matter is this – sharks’ fins do not add any flavour to your soup – it’s the other ingredients that make the soup taste what it tastes like. Stay away from it, and the whole marine eco-system will thank you for it, and you never know, you might be making your own luck by doing just that.
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Singapore is 2nd biggest trader of sharks’ fins.
Coral crisis part of Thai national agenda
January 29, 2011 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
“We will seriously solve this problem,” Songtham Suksawang said yesterday in his capacity as the head of DNP nationalparks division. Many diving sites at famous marine national parks in the Andaman Sea have been closed to tourists since January 21 after coral bleaching killed a large portion of reefs.
“We will propose zoning for diving attractions,” Songtham said.He added that admissionfee hike and the ceiling on the number of tourists each day might also be used to protect the coral reefs.Songtham was speaking during a brainstorming session on the coralbleaching crisis.
Q&A: Imperiled Birds on a Warming Planet
January 28, 2011 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter, Tech & Science
A species that is narrowly distributed, either vertically or horizontally, will face much more of a challenge. If temperatures change rapidly, they’ll experience conditions they’ve never experienced in their narrow band. Their entire geographic region could disappear.
Their fate will also depend on how flexible they are in terms of things like foods, and there’s a lot of uncertainty there. The rosy finch feeds on mountain snowfields. If temperatures decline and there are no more year-round snow fields, they’ll have to evolve a new feeding strategy.
via NYTimes.com.
UN shark conservation plan has failed, says report
January 28, 2011 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
A headline-making UN scheme to preserve the world’s sharks has been a resounding failure, according to a report on Thursday that pins the blame on Indonesia, India, Spain and Taiwan and 16 other major catchers of the fish.
via AFP.
Letter to Resorts World Sentosa: Best place to learn from dolphins? In the wild
January 9, 2011 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
Dolphin loves freedom. No argument can rationalise the forced confinement of these highly intelligent creatures. I believe it is wrong to remove these beautiful marine animals from their natural environment and exploit them for commercial purposes. Dolphins and whales in captivity is not about education or conservation, it is about one thing – profit.
via TODAYonline
Finally! Palm oil companies recognise the value of forests
November 16, 2010 by green team
Filed under Business
The annual RSPO meeting was held in Jakarta last week, and members voted in favour of our proposal. This means that the RSPO must now publish a position statement recognising the value of secondary and degraded forests, and make sure that plantation companies and auditors don’t just write them off as dead wood.
Whilst we’re pleased with the result of the vote, the RSPO is a voluntary initiative, representing less than half of Indonesian palm oil companies, and not all RSPO-member companies have been following the rules. To really safeguard these forests, the Indonesian government needs to recognise their value as well.
via Greenpeace UK.
