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Study: Plant-based diets are critical for protecting biodiversity
What is our most powerful tool for protecting biodiversity? A new report by the Chatham House, backed by the UN, indicates that widespread adoption of plant-based diets is one of the most crucial ways to protect endangered species. Plant-based diets are environmentally beneficial because they Read More...
February 1, 2021
It's Summers' birthday week and we're celebrating with how psychological ownership can boost environmental stewardship and four key ways everyone can preserve biodiversity. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
February 1, 2021
It's Summers' birthday week and we're celebrating with how psychological ownership can boost environmental stewardship and four key ways everyone can preserve biodiversity. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
February 1, 2021
It's Summers' birthday week and we're celebrating with how psychological ownership can boost environmental stewardship and four key ways everyone can preserve biodiversity. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
February 1, 2021
It's Summers' birthday week and we're celebrating with how psychological ownership can boost environmental stewardship and four key ways everyone can preserve biodiversity. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
These four key steps are designed to help individuals protect biodiversity
Tackling our planet’s dwindling biodiversity requires an approach that targets the problem holistically. As such, a new report written by a group of multidisciplinary scientists puts forward four key steps that all parts of society should take to help protect life on Earth. The report, published Read More...
Researchers rediscover tiny Tasmanian crayfish thought to be extinct
Tasmania is a biodiversity hotspot that is home to many species of wildlife, but there’s one particular species that researchers hadn’t spotted in decades: the short-tailed rain crayfish. Crayfish expert Alastair Richardson first encountered the short-tailed rain crayfish in the 1970s while Read More...
The European bison is no longer classified as “vulnerable”
In 2003, the population of the European bison stood at just 1,800 individuals, leading scientists at the International Union for Conservation and Nature to classify the animal as “vulnerable.” This led to a number of conservation initiatives, including the 5-year LIFE Bison project, which Read More...
Motion sensor uses AI to recognize when wildlife is running from poachers
Scientists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands are mixing motion sensors with machine learning to create a powerful tool that could help combat wildlife poaching. Motion sensors have already given conservationists the ability to track the whereabouts of endangered animals, but this new Read More...
Every time a girl is born in this Indian village, 111 trees are planted
When the former leader of the small village of Piplantri in Rajasthan, India, lost his daughter when she was very young, he wanted to come up with something that would cherish the life of each girl child to be born. That’s when he thought up the idea of creating an initiative in which 111 trees Read More...