CBD News Headlines

• Montreal to deploy scare teams to shoo away urban coyotes
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  The team will also train people how to react when they see a coyote, screaming and waving so the animals don't get comfortable in the company of humans.
• Cities can grow without wrecking reefs and oceans. Here's how
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  "What happens if the water temperature rises by a few degrees?" is the 2018 International Year of the Reef leading question.
• Brazil should stay in Paris climate agreement - future environment minister
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Brazil will use common sense in dealing with the Paris agreement, and the country has so far been responsible in preserving its vegetation, Salles says
• The will of the people is to halt climate change, what about politicians?
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  While the world's leaders fiddle at the UN climate summit, the world outside is giving some reason for hope
• US undermining 'last chance' climate talks, experts charge
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Katowice, Poland (CNN) - The American delegation came to promote coal.
• Humans may be reversing the climate clock, by 50 million years
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Our future on Earth may also be our past. In a study published Monday (Dec. 10, 2018) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers show that humans are reversing a long-term cooling trend tracing back at least 50 million years. And it's taken just two centuries.
• East Antarctica glacial stronghold melting amid climate change
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Nasa detects ice retreat linked to probable ocean changes in region once thought stable
• Giraffes just silently went to the endangered list of animals facing extinction
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Giraffes have been widely overlooked in conservation practices for a little too long. They just made their entry into the Red List of endangered species.
• Chile's pine forests: a botanical dinosaur bound for extinction?
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  In Quinquen, an indigenous community in southern Chile, Ricardo Melinir shows off a forest of Chilean pine trees-the araucaria araucana, a "living fossil" seen as sacred by several local tribes.
• 'Our consumption choices are driving biodiversity loss'
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Humankind is decimating plant and animal species, with alarming consequences for the planet. From the UN biodiversity conference in Egypt, Cristiana Pasca explains why preserving biodiversity is key to our survival.
• Small and isolated habitat patches crucial to species survival
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Small, local patches of habitat could be playing a much bigger role in conserving biodiversity than you think, according to new research.
• China has key role in protecting biodiversity
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  As much as scientists and climate activists are urging the world not to forget the promises it made in Paris in 2015 at the ongoing COP24 United Nations climate meeting in Katowice, Poland, another key global meeting on an issue of global importance barely made the news recently, even if the issue, biodiversity - the ecosystems on which all human life depends - needs just as much attention.
• Lake Tanganyika rescue plan on cards
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  FISHING has been a main source of livelihood for thousands of natives around Lake Tanganyika in Mpulungu district of Northern Province for many years.
• WWF: EU falling behind with sustainable fisheries policy implementation
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Despite having had five years to implement measures in the latest version of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), European Union member states are still lagging behind and likely to miss important 2020 deadlines on biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries management, a new report from WWW claims.
• International Mountain Day 2018: What's this year's theme and why we need to protect mountains
  [released on: 10/12/2018]
  They serve as spectacular backdrops to some of the world's most scenic areas, and once a year the United Nations marks our appreciation of them with International Mountain Day.
• On World Mountain Day, looking at climate change adaptation in some of the world most majestic ranges
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Nairobi, 11 December 2018 - Mountain regions occupy about one-quarter of the earth's land surface and are home to 15% of the world's population.
• Extreme weather menacing lives, livelihoods of mountain people
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  In the dark hours before dawn each day, Mrs Saili and her three daughters quietly slip away from their Nepalese mountain village to begin their three-hour walk to the nearest river to fetch drinking water for the day.
• Lofty peaks: why glaciers matter
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  International Mountain Day on 11 December reminds us of the importance of mountains (peaks and uplands) as providers of valuable plant and animal species, as homes for indigenous peoples, and as sources of fresh water.
• Sustainable development and conservation
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  December 11 is globally celebrated as the International Mountain Day (IMD). It reminds us every year the shameless actions we have been taking over the decades that ruined the nature and natural resources hosted by the mountains.
• As forest lines invade mountains globally, Sikkim stays immune so far
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  In eastern Himalayas' Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP), eye-catching Wight's rhododendron shrubs and graceful firs, frame the upper limits of the sub-alpine forests.
• Ground-feeding birds in Southeast Asia may be going extinct outside protected areas
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Nature reserves in large parts of Southeast Asia may be the last strongholds for charismatic ground-feeding birds such as quails, partridges and pheasants, together called galliforms, according to a recent study in Conservation Letters.
• Transboundary Water Cooperation And The Sustainable Development Goals
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point.
• Study Shows How African Countries are Preparing for Green Development
  [released on: 11/12/2018]
  KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 11 2018 (IPS) - In order for African countries to implement their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), they will require further human capacity building, and there must be involvement of the private sector from the start of the planning process.