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Author: Lia Schlippe

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Indigenous Peoples’ lands key for wildlife protection

September 15, 2021September 15, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1190 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

Indigenous lands cover more than one-quarter of Earth’s land surface, overlapping with 37% of all terrestrial protected areas and 40%

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Brazilian Amazon deforestation hits the highest annual level in a decade

September 2, 2021August 31, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1151 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

The Amazon rainforest, commonly known as the lungs of our planet, encompass the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the

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We need to protect at least 30% of the planet by 2030

August 30, 2021August 26, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1208 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Despite an increase in policies to support biodiversity, indicators show that biodiversity loss has increased between 2011 and 2020. At

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Mass amphibian extinction crisis

August 26, 2021August 24, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1203 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

We have all heard about how many big mammal species such as the polar bear, the black rhino or the

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Wisconsin’s wolves threatened by new hunting quota

August 24, 2021August 19, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1174 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Last week, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Boards approved the new quota for the November hunt of grey wolves, allowing the

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Forestry contributes to warming of forests during extreme summers

August 23, 2021August 23, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1183 Views 0 Comments 2 min read

In Central Europe, the weather extremes of the past years, in combination with insect outbreaks, have already reduced tree vitality

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Urbanisation: Opportunities and challenges for human-wildlife interactions

August 3, 2021August 2, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1320 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Urbanisation, the shift in residence of the human population from rural to urban areas in search of jobs and prosperity,

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Overfishing in Costa Rica is driving sharks to extinction

July 26, 2021July 19, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1228 Views 0 Comments 7 min read

Earlier this year, Costa Rica’s President Carlos Alvarado signed a decree that gutted vital protections for sharks, even those officially

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Idaho starts the eradication of 90% of Northern Rockies wolves

July 22, 2021August 12, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1693 Views 1 Comment 7 min read

On July 1, the state of Idaho began an eradication campaign to slash the state’s wolf population from the landscape, with the

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Court victory for wolves in Norway!

July 16, 2021July 12, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1891 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Despite being one of the countries with the lowest human densities of Europe, Norway only allows and protects wolves in

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Bee or Fly? Can you really distinguish them?

July 13, 2021July 5, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1321 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

We all know that the looks are not all that matters. But when it comes to the question to eat

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New EU Agricultural Policy continues funding harmful intensive farming

July 2, 2021June 30, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1300 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Last week, on 25 June 2021, representatives from European governments, the European Parliament and the European Commission struck a deal

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What we eat matters: Comparing environmental impact of different diets

June 29, 2021June 29, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1363 Views 1 Comment 3 min read

In the last years, increasing attention has been paid to the impacts our food choices cause on the environment. Certainly,

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Burning Namibia bushes for ‘green’ fuel?

June 18, 2021June 17, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1385 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

In 2013, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) started funding a project in Namibia to help limit ‘bush

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Great news! Panama doubles the size of its protected marine areas

June 15, 2021July 5, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1417 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

On June 8, World Oceans Day, Panamanian President, Laurentino Cortizo, and the Minister of Environment, Milciades Concepción announced the expansion

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BEECH POWER in the Slovenian Forest Week

June 9, 2021October 19, 20222 years ago Lia Schlippe 1406 Views 0 Comments 5 min read

In the Kočevsko region of southern Slovenia, untouched nature remains in the form of virgin forests. One of these rare remains

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Help restoring ecosystems this World Environment Day

June 4, 2021August 19, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1322 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

Every year on 5th of June, we celebrate World Environment Day to highlight the major issues the environment is facing

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Empty forests: Overhunting is causing defaunation in tropical forests

June 1, 2021May 31, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1482 Views 0 Comments 3 min read

We have already lost over half of the tropical forests worldwide due to industrial logging, agriculture, livestock and urbanization. Of

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The oceans full of marine roads?

May 28, 2021May 31, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1344 Views 0 Comments 4 min read

Road impacts are threatening wildlife not only on land, but in the oceans! Marine roads such as heavily used shipping

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Captive-breeding reduces reintroduction survival in carnivores

May 27, 2021May 27, 20212 years ago Lia Schlippe 1555 Views 3 Comments 3 min read

Reintroductions are increasingly being proposed as a valuable conservation measure with the potential to save many species from extinction. However, some people

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