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The Open Ground
The Ecologist
20th June, 2009
The Open Ground is a conservation event organised by Conservation Today, a news and opinions website run by postgraduate students.more...
The Open Ground
Ecologist
20th June, 2009
Conservation event organised by Conservation Today - a news & opinions website run by postgraduate students more...The End of the Line Film
Ecologist
8th June, 2009
As much as 90 per cent of all the ocean's large fish have been fished out,and international group of ecologists and economists has warned that the world will run out of seafood by 2048. more...
Return of Britain's native species
Robin McKie
8th June, 2009
The first great bustards born in the wild in the UK since 1832 hatched last week. The reintroduction of this and many other species is invigorating the countryside, but eradicating foreign invaders - animals and plants - is equally important more...
The environmental impact of drugs
Nick Kettles
19th May, 2009
How much rainforest does it take for one celebrity to snort another one under the table? Nick Kettles investigates the devastating environmental impact of cocaine use more...
Public unable to accurately gauge environmental degradation, say scientists
News
17th April, 2009
Experts have identified something called ‘shifting baseline syndrome’. No, not a symptom of excessive alcohol intake, but rather the theory that people’s perception of the environment is based on what they can see with their own eyes today, not what things were like in the past. more...
The first mass remembrance
David Hawkins
15th April, 2009
The new work by artist Maya Lin, famous for her memorial to US soldiers lost in Vietnam, commemorates the species destroyed and endangered by human action. As the list of the dead grows, David Hawkins wonders if the future is set in stone more...
Fishy business
Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens
9th April, 2009
The coastal towns and villages of Peru are being blighted by an industry that has sprung up to satisfy the West’s voracious appetite for fish – now marine life, human health and whole ecosystems are paying the price. Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens of the Ecologist Film Unit investigate more...
Possum or polar bear?
William Laurance
8th April, 2009
With global warming putting pressure on animals and biodiversity in the tropics, is it time we had a new poster child for climate change, asks William Laurancemore...
British Wildlife Photography Awards
The Ecologist
1st April, 2009
Photographers have from April until July to snap their best shots of British wildlife more...
New report estimates rainforest's value to humanity
News
27th March, 2009
There have been plenty of attempts to try and value standing rainforest – you can tot up its total carbon content, you can value the ecosystem services it provides, you can look at its land value…more...
Quality food production and biodiversity protection
Ecologist
13th March, 2009
Animals grazed on biodiverse pasture produce better tasting, and healthier, meat more...
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More is More
Malcolm Tait
16th February, 2009
There are few things more awe-inspiring in nature than the massing in vast numbers of a single species of animal. To explain why the phenomenon is so thrilling requires an understanding of why and how it happens in the first place more...
Listen to the animals
Rupert Sheldrake
12th February, 2009
Why did so many animals escape December's tsunami? more...Forest carbon finance fails root and branch
Harriet Williams
10th February, 2009
Forest carbon finance, through avoided deforestation, is at best a sticking plaster solution that fails to get to the roots of the problem, argues Harriet Williams more...
Dr Jane Goodall Conservationist
Ecologist
4th February, 2009
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How to 'read' a forest
Tom Wessels
3rd February, 2009
For most of us a walk in a forest goes by in a kind of green blur, but as Tom Wessels reveals, knowing what you are looking at can unravel complex stories etched into our forested landscape, fostering a sense of place that promotes future stewardship more...
Fight them for the Beeches
Jon Snow
2nd February, 2009
Permits for roadworks should be made conditional on utility companies filling the holes they dig with trees. By Jon Snow more...
Study shows worms can develop pesticide resistance in as little as 80 days
Ecologist
2nd February, 2009
The pesticide industry knows all too well that nature quickly develops immunity to its chemical armoury. But a new study by scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC) and the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal has shown that a species of worm can develop resistance to a common pesticide in just 20 generations, or 80 days. more...
Local Hero: Dusty Gedge of Living Roofs
Matilda Lee
29th January, 2009
Can there be wildlife in our urban jungles? Matilda Lee meets a man campaigning to let nature live on city rooftops more...
Severn barrage - is there an alternative?
Mark Anslow, Peter Clark
27th January, 2009
Will the temptation of vast amounts of clean, tidal energy lead us to ignore the chance of serious environmental damage? Mark Anslow and Peter Clark report more...
Rural depopulation isn’t just a social problem: it affects wildlife too
News
23rd January, 2009
When communities are broken apart by migration towards towns and cities, rural life suffers. more...
New Mexico's traditional chilies are threatened by GMO seeds
Ecologist
22nd January, 2009
New Mexico’s chilli farmers are under threat. The film 'Red, green of GE?' hears from those concerned about the potentially devastating effects GMO crops would have on the New Mexico chilli. more...
If Only They Could Talk
Tony Juniper
3rd January, 2009
The commerce in wild-caught parrots is an animal welfare scandal and conservation catastrophe. A decade and a half after conservationists wrung from the European Parliament a commitment to end the trade, the EU remains the largest importer of parrots in the world. more...
Help fashion go organic
Ecologist magazine
1st January, 2009
The fashion industry listens to shoppers, even if governments don't. Use your power as a consumer to make safer, organic cotton more widely available:more...
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