Posts Tagged: biodiversity

The wisdom of the crowd was particularly evident at our pivotal Net Positive conference. The attendees – 200 sustainability experts – offered many great insights for firms stepping up a gear. Their guide to going net positive is available via Green Mondays. For a company to reach a net positive result, it’ll need to make [...]

‘Even doubling our current rate of decarbonisation, would still lead to emissions consistent with 6 degrees of warming by the end of the century’.  PwC. ‘The world has failed to meet its target to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss’.  Convention on Biological Diversity. Optimisation is clearly failing.  We need to [...]

As a follow-up to my recent blog post about the great work being done in ‘coral nurseries’ in the Mesoamerican reef region around Belize, here’s a fascinating short video made by our colleague Rhys Gerholdt from WWF’s US office.

Playing a part in a safe, secure and affordable energy system will give an energy company a social licence to operate. But what does such an energy system look like? Well, first let’s look at what it doesn’t look like. Many energy scenarios paint a bleak picture of climate change – with carbon emissions reaching [...]

One of the projects WWF-Belize has been supporting in Placencia is the work of Lisa Carne, a marine biologist whose been working on speeding up the recovery of damaged coral reefs in Belize. We met up with Lisa at a dive shop on the seafront for a fascinating trip to see her coral nurseries – [...]

The Placencia peninsula is located in the Stann Creek district in the south-east of Belize. Nadia from WWF-Belize, my host here, is supporting community mangrove protection work in this region, having identified it as one of Belize’s most vulnerable sites. Not just from human pressures such as overfishing but also natural weather hazards like hurricanes [...]

Greetings from Kwale, people of Wales! It is my sincere hope that you have continued to enjoy these updates through which we communicate the results and impacts of your much appreciated support. During the month of August, we have continued to achieve our mission, which would otherwise have not been realised without your support. The [...]

When I was in Nepal a few years back I had the privilege of meeting members of a community-led anti-poaching operation. These heroic people included a man who’d effectively lost half his face in a tiger attack, and a tiny woman who looked as if a gust of wind would knock her over. But people [...]

To be honest there is nothing terribly endearing about white-shouldered ibises. The guide books struggle to make it sound appealing with its naked head, dark brownish plumage and dull red legs. Even its typical down-curved ibis bill is a dull grey. It has a small block of white where its neck joins its head and [...]

Over the last 20 years oil palm has emerged as a wonder crop – providing copious quantities of palm oil as an ingredient in everything from soap to biscuits. But at what cost to the environment? I’ve come to Gabon, in western Central Africa, to see what’s happening here. Palm oil production has already cleared [...]