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ENSIA: Can we protect ocean ecosystems and support thriving fishing and ocean energy industries, too?
Beyond Ireland’s rolling green hills and storied countryside, the nation’s marine territory spans more than 10 times its landmass. Its rocky, rugged coast borders a frigid, slate-hued ocean where kelp forests, seagrass meadows and cold-water coral reefs dwell beneath the water’s surface, providing habitat for an array of sea life….
EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL: In Ghana, Human-Wildlife Conflict Is Taking a Steep Toll on Education
Dry, evergreen forests and rugged rocky outcrops dot the sprawling grasslands of Ghana’s Shai Hills Resource Reserve. The region’s varied ecosystem is home to a wide range of wildlife, including green monkeys, spot-nosed monkeys, and baboons. These primates depend on scattered woodlands of Baobab, Acacia, and Shea trees, as well as the reserve’s broader landscape for shelter and a diet of fruits, seeds, and insects. However, in recent years…
ENSIA: Can Forest Expansion Balance Climate Change, Economic Growth and Ecological Health?
Thousands of years ago, oak, ash and hazel trees blanketed with moss and ivy grew from a teeming understory of fern, willow and scattered mushrooms, nearly completely covering Ireland in lush green layers. That was before Vikings began pillaging Irish monasteries and chopping down trees to build their notorious raiding fleet. It was before the English felled Ireland’s forests to construct vessels bound for distant shores. Centuries of deforestation for lumber and agriculture reduced Ireland’s forest cover from 80% to around 1%…
Wild Crossroads: Exposing Ineffective Marine Protected Areas: Study Reveals a New Method for Identifying ‘Paper Parks’
Marine ecosystems face relentless pressure under the strains of our rapidly changing world. Water temperatures rising due to climate change, unsustainable fishing practices, pollution from trade and coastal development, and disturbances from extractive energy industries are just a few of the harsh realities threatening these delicate environments.
Wild Crossroads: Gray Wolves Return to Colorado
Monday, December 18th, 2023, marks the historic and controversial reintroduction of gray wolves into Colorado’s wilderness. Officials from the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Service (CPW) spent the previous day capturing five wolves in Oregon and transporting them to an undisclosed release site on Colorado’s Western Slope…
Wild Crossroads: Lawsuit Threatens to Delay Colorado Wolf Reintroduction
The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association (CCA), in partnership with the Gunnison County Stock Growers Association (GCSA), filed a lawsuit on December 11, 2023, against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to delay gray wolf reintroduction in Colorado. The lawsuit comes just weeks before the December 31 deadline to begin the reintroduction of 30 to 50 wolves over the next 3 to 5 years, as established by Proposition 114 in February 2020…
Wild Crossroads: After 21 Deaths, Bird Flu Vaccination Begins For Critically Endangered California Condors
The HPAI bird flu has claimed the lives of 21 California Condors from the Arizona-Utah flock since the outbreak began in late March. In response to this threat, the US Department of Agriculture greenlit a vaccination program on May 16th, marking a crucial effort to prevent further loss of the world’s most endangered bird species. A special task force assembled by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with local environmental organizations, is responsible for carrying out the vaccination process and implementing additional preventative measures to curb the continuation of this outbreak.