For many, the natural world is just an unavoidable inconvenience: a fly buzzing about your ear; a crow screeching. Indeed,[…]
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Tag: Conservation
A Giant Success?
In September 2016, the giant panda was declared no longer “endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)[…]
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For Peat’s Sake! Peatlands: the not-so-secret solution to our climate crisis?
These drastically undervalued “Cinderella” habitats cover approximately 3% of the earth’s land area yet store almost 33% of the entire[…]
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Biodiversity Offsetting: Balancing Development with Conservation?
Worldwide, biodiversity is in drastic decline. As of 2014 the Living Planet Index showed us that global vertebrate species populations[…]
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Green light to AstraZeneca’s new home
Cambridge City Council has eventually conceded construction permission to AstraZeneca for its future Global Research and Development (R&D) Centre and[…]
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