Time to clear up those Monday blues with some more conservation good news stories from across the web. First stop on the Dodo Express is Mexico. Fireflies help stave off deforestation The Guardian reports that in the village of Nanacamilipa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine and fir trees on the outskirts of … More Team Planet Earth
by Anita M Kulkarni Nabonne Gather round to hear a gruesome horror story unfolding right before our eyes. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin. Planet earth came to be as a small dot in this vast universe, and over billions of years it evolved; designing and redesigning, touching up and choreographing until it … More A Grim Fairy Tale
With so much depressing news about the state of the planet’s health hitting our social feeds, or shown on the TV, the easy option can sometimes be to look away and ignore the problem. There is an element of helplessness to it all–this thing is just too big to stop. What changes can I really … More Team Planet Earth
By Anita M Kulkarni Nabonne Wherever the need is on this globe, vast battles are being fought every hour of every day. Monumental challenges are being met and victories gained to overcome the dereliction of our care and duty to the many species we temporarily are privileged to enjoy, and to the only home we … More ConservAction
Is it bad that I sometimes hope for an asteroid to strike and do us the same way as the dinosaurs? Probably. No, certainly (I have two kids, but more on that later). But that’s how mad I get when I hear that tigers are functionally extinct in Cambodia, all so their body parts could … More The Sixth Mass Extinction
