The Gulf of Mottama is one of the world's largest areas of permanently muddy water. Sediment delivery from four major rivers聽鈥撀爐he Ayeyarwady, Yangon, Sittaung, and Thanlwin聽鈥撀燼nd a 7-meter tidal range that drives currents of up to 3 meters/second, produce constantly changing patterns of鈥
Geneva, Switzerland, 16 November 2015 鈥 While global demand for the world鈥檚 most popular metal 鈥 aluminium 鈥 continues to rise, it is critical that the aluminium industry address its environmental and social impacts, particularly in indigenous peoples鈥 territories, according to new report鈥
Graeme Kelleher is an 鈥淥cean Elder鈥, a long-standing active WCPA member and author of the WCPA 鈥淕uidelines for Marine Protected Areas鈥, among many other publications. Based on decades of experience, Graeme has distilled some of his thoughts on how best to go about conservation involving marine鈥
Even after long years of nesting monitoring, there are still things that surprise us all. For the first time on Vamizi Island in Mozambique, on聽the turtle monitoring project that started over 10 years ago, four albino green turtle hatchlings were found on the island's most successful nesting鈥
Conservation is about people, and a key part of SOS Grantee Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) work to save threatened coastal cetaceans in Bangladesh explains 聽Brian D. Smith, WCS Programme Director. That entails reaching out to fishing communities in culturally respectful and interactive鈥
To help celebrate more than 50 years of the International Union for Conservation of Nature鈥檚 (香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播) work protecting our global natural heritage, Terre Sauvage has published a special edition of their renowned wildlife magazine.
Pacific Bluefin Tuna, Chinese Pufferfish, American Eel, Chinese Cobra and an Australian butterfly are threatened with extinction
Oil and gas company Total has confirmed that it will not carry out extractive operations within natural World Heritage sites, including Virunga National Park. 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 welcomes this decision and calls on all oil and gas companies to follow suit.
A new scientific study has identified the protected areas most critical to preventing extinctions of the world鈥檚 mammals, birds and amphibians. Resulting from an international collaboration, this analysis provides practical advice for improving the effectiveness of protected areas in conserving鈥
At a meeting of the five Asian Rhino range states - Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal - a common action plan was agreed today with the aim of increasing the populations of Asian Rhino species by at least 3% annually by 2020.