As well as fires, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro approach’s to protecting the Amazon has been shown to lead to problems. His stance of supporting farmers and loggers in their theft of land, both from national parks or indigenous tribal land has reached its ultimate and some would say obvious conclusion.
Continue reading “An official in Brazil is shot for trying to protect indigenous people”Following on from the fires in the Amazon Rainforest story – Bolsonaro is all over the place
For anyone who reads this blog regularly and read my initial article in the run up to his election, you will have seen that this is not the sort of leader that impresses me or many people around the world. He is regularly referred to as the ‘tropical Trump’, and this is generally not a label given as a compliment.
However the fallout from last week’s news has been substantial and he has thrown out many different things in an attempt to distract the news from what he did.
Continue reading “Following on from the fires in the Amazon Rainforest story – Bolsonaro is all over the place”The impact of unregulated damage to the Amazon rainforest
For regular readers of this blog you will have noticed that I have written about Jair Bolsonaro on a few occasions. Unfortunately the fears that I have expressed appear to be bearing out in the behaviour of his government and the problems they are encountering.
Continue reading “The impact of unregulated damage to the Amazon rainforest”The climate and global warming is rising in its importance amongst the British public
Concern about the environment has grown rapidly over the last few years, particularly after the visit of Greta Thunberg who raised concerns that had not been given the attention that they should have done by British politicians.
Continue reading “The climate and global warming is rising in its importance amongst the British public”News in brief
 Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidies just would pay the green transition
There is a continuous claim made from all sides that the costs of going green are simply too high, and that green electrical generation and transportation will never be affordable without subsidies.
Now all evidence looked at so far shows this is not true, however, why is this a standard we are looking at given that we are still providing huge subsidies for fossil fuels?
Continue reading “News in brief”Boreal forests burning at a rate not seen in 10,000 years
The Komodo Dragon National Park is increasing its prices dramatically
Komodo National Park is a very popular place to visit. It is in a relatively remote part of the Indonesian archipelago and this has led to it being one place on Earth where lizards still rule.
Continue reading “The Komodo Dragon National Park is increasing its prices dramatically”Forest elephants make a significant difference to the amount of Carbon that trees hold
It is only in the last couple of decades that genetic research was done to find the forest elephants of Africa are a completely different species to the bush elephants found out on the Savanna – which is the species most people see. Talking about these elephant species, bare in mind that the forest elephant has been shown to be more closely related to the mammoth than to the African Savanna elephant.Â
Continue reading “Forest elephants make a significant difference to the amount of Carbon that trees hold”Tiger leaves reserve and is found on someone’s bed
Africa and India set up their nature reserves very differently. In Africa reserves that house lions and leopards, and animals such as this, are very large, often covering more than 500 square miles of land. Indeed there are a handful of reserves that are large enough to contain 500 or more wild lions.
Continue reading “Tiger leaves reserve and is found on someone’s bed”Southern African countries Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola and Namibia are calling for an end to the ban on ivory sales
This group of Southern African countries are once again raising the prospect of them selling the ivory that they have accumulated over the years. In the majority of African countries that have wild elephants it is standard practice when Game Wardens come across dead elephants to remove the tusks. This is because it has been clearly shown that feeding the demand for ivory is a very strong way of increasing demand and to avoid people going looking for dead animals the tusks must be removed.
Continue reading “Southern African countries Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola and Namibia are calling for an end to the ban on ivory sales”
