Elephant Poaching Crisis In Central Africa Worsens, WWF and WCS Call For Increased Protection
“The elephant poaching crisis – driven by insatiable ivory demand – is so severe that no area is safe, not even the World Heritage Site Dzanga-Sangha…” Jim Leape, WWF Director General. April 25, 2013 — World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) issued a joint call …
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CITES COP 16 Focuses On The Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking
In Bangkok’ CITES COP 16, the world focus on transnational wildlife and forest crime comes not a moment to soon for a range of species targeted by organized gangs of illegal traffickers. For a good account of this, consider reading The Japan Times article by Hugh Paxton about the conference …
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CITES COP 16 The World Fighting Back Against Transnational Organized Wildlife And Forest Crime
Wild Open Eye airs some thoughts on Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) 16th international Convention Of Parties so far. March 2012, Bangkok’s international COP 16, a two-week long convention involving representatives from over 170 countries and leading international governmental and nongovernmental groups …
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Protecting The White-Clawed Knights Of Eden
Raise your claw if you like fast flowing, well-oxygenated, clean rivers and becks (streams) rich in Calcium carbonate, with a good supply of tasty small plants, insects and organic detritus for your supper! Yes, Britain’s increasingly rare and endangered White-Clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) matches this description. Heavily armoured like knights …
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Parliament Votes To Stop The Badger Cull In Favour Of “more sustainable and humane solution”
Good news for British badgers! By a majority of 119, MPs voted through the following motion this afternoon. “That this House notes the e-petition on the planned badger cull, which has gathered more than 150,000 signatures; and calls on the Government to stop the cull and implement the more sustainable …
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Badger Cull to be debated in Parliament this Thursday
This Thursday there’ll be a parliamentary debate about the controversial Badger Cull proposal and now is the time to contact your MP and ask them to attend the debate and to vote against the cull and in support of a better outcome for Britain’s favourite Mustelid, Meles meles. Can you …
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Sign and share this urgent petition to help protect The Antarctic from industrial fishing fleets – Appeal by Leonardo DiCaprio
Wildopeneye supports the Antarctic Marine Sanctuary petition. Please write in to help secure 6 million square kilometers of precious Antarctic wildlife habitat. The Antarctic food web extends far north and is crucially important for biodiversity beyond the area proposed for protection. Here’s the Avaaz appeal by Leonardo Dicaprio Dear friends, …
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British Scientists’ Discovery Good News For Badgers!
The article linked to below, suggests that British Badgers may yet be saved from culling due to a breakthrough at the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge, Surrey. Researchers there have developed a method of distinguishing cows infected with Bovine TB and cows that have been immunised against …
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Why Pangolins Can’t Be Farmed, Bear Protection Enhanced and Other News from Education For Nature Vietnam
The August issue of WILDLIFE CRIME VIETNAM published by the Education For Nature Vietnam (ENV) organisation reports evidence of progress in Asiatic bear protection since an important 2005 decision by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to phase out bear farming for bile harvesting and describes how a modification …
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ARCAS reports 50 sea turtles per night at height of the nesting season
Here’s the latest ARCAS news from the nesting beaches of Biotopo Hawaii on Guatemala’s Pacific Coast. Well done to all involved. “We are entering the height of the sea turtle season and are counting up to 50 turtles per night in 8kms we patrol! As of August 31st, we …
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- Indigenous Tribes - Could they face extinction? 04/03/2012The sad news of the death of the boat driver Nicolas "Shaco" Flores in the Madre de Dios region of Peru came to the attention of us earlier in the year. Reports have described Nicolas as being shot by the Mascho Piro uncontacted tribe. However, the news came to us as a great shock because it was apparent that Shaco Flores and the tribes were liaiso […]
- Business as Usual? 06/01/2012To all readers,Well it's been a while since an entry has been placed on the Canopy to Cures blogspot, but here's something a bit different... hopefully it may prove a good read over Christmas! Hopefully it will provide a take home message for everyone...I'm going to look at things from a different perspective now; a corporate perspective. Over […]
- Merry Christmas from the Canopy to Cures team! 23/12/2011We're very excited about Christmas, but even more excited for 2012! To get you into the spirit, here's some interesting stuff!Deck the halls with boughs of holly - It's not derived from the rainforest, but interestingly, holly leaves are infused to make powerful cures for fevers and rheumatisms!It's not too late for Christmas shopping! Th […]
- Amazon adventure for Durham student - Local - Sunderland Echo 18/09/2011Amazon adventure for Durham student - Local - Sunderland EchoAmazon adventure for Durham studentBy Kristy DawsonPublished on Wednesday 14 September 2011 10:36ADVENTUROUS student Deepesh Patel is back on home soil after delving deep into South American rainforests.The Durham University student has spent the summer exploring the medicinal properties of plants […]
- STEMNET helps Canopy to Cures in Durham's Schools 17/09/2011Before and after the British Science Festival, we were teaching in interactive workshops in and around Durham. Teaching people from Year 7 to 13 was initially a great challenge, but as we moved from school to school, we experimented around with our activities and eventually had a greatly successful program which was thoroughly enjoyed by many.Initially we st […]
- British Science Festival - the final days 15/09/2011As with every science festival, arriving back with achy feet, bags under our eyes and of course an extremely sore throat usually means you've had a successful time at a science festival. Amongst the endless streams of people with bags full of freebies and heads full of scientific thought, we had challenging questions posed to us and we were happy to fin […]
- Video Blog - Day 2 at the British Science Festival 12/09/2011We've now been here for 2 days - here's the brief update!
