Birds and Biodiversity : The Pillar of life on Earth
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears ,as close to us and everyone in the world as universal as birds David Attenborough A…
Ecology
Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life
The Web of Life is under attack but almost nobody is aware because it’s happening mostly below surface. Scientists have identified a rampant worldwide Bugpocalypse that’s methodically killing the planet’s…
Ecology And Economics
Humanity has reached a critical decade A new report, published on 14 March, 2021 in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' journal Ambio, points out that humanity is hurtling towards…
The Rescue of the Spirit and of Nature
The world has reached its limit. Humanity no longer resists. Who dares to defend this order full of injustice, shame, catastrophes, depredation? In the name of whom or what? What…
Rescuing civilization dirt cheap
Other than rock, water, and ice, our world consists entirely of ecosystem products and services, those biologically essential constructions of the ecosphere that keep everything alive and functioning. From our…
We must save other species to ensure the survival of human species
The Corona crisis has reminded humans once again that they are just one species in nature like any other species – a truth they always tend to forget, knowingly or…
Ecocide- A Sibling of Genocide
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire Humanity has been the witness of glory and upheavals since history. A history that has long been…
For a better world, our lifestyle must be based on as less resources as possible
Senior activist Medha Patkar launched a youth led, Towards A Better World campaign, in an online session where several youth leaders of Fridays For Future (a global movement led by…
After George Floyd’s Murder: Social and Ecological Justice Converge
The visceral reaction to the murder of George Floyd unleashed deep personal reflection about racism, social justice, and fairness, and launched a powerful, broad based social movement. The pursuit of…
The Ecology Movement Is Not A Social Movement — A Response To John Foran’s Article On The How-Question
John Foran has issued a wake-up call, a "call to arms", and addressed it to colleagues and comrades:1 I feel spoken to. Not only because of its subject, but also…
Trump: America’s Pilot-In-Chief In The Post-Ecological Age
Many Americans are frightened by the idea of Donald Trump as the country's new pilot-in-chief, fearing he'll crash the airliner of state (including climate and environmental policies) into a mountain…
Global Biosphere Collapse, The End Of Being, Upon Us
Miraculous nature is being murdered. Everywhere we look inequitable over-consumption is devastating the natural ecosystems that sustain a living Earth. Together we yield to ecological truth – personally embracing a…
Highlights Of A New Seminal Paper On Indian Forest Management Reform
The new paper ‘A Framework for Reforming India’s Forest Biodiversity Management Regime’ by Dr S. Faizi and Dr M. Ravichandran published in the UN journal Natural Resources Forum in its…
Rainforest Etiquette In A World Gone Mad
Let us begin with theettam. Or if you prefer, with Leelamma’s kitchen, where thee (fire) burns. Between the wood-burning stove and the community pit-loo, an ecological picaresque unfolds. …
What Is The World? Who Are We? What Are We Going To Do About It?
We are better people, individually and collectively, when we reject hubris and embrace humility, and we stand a better chance of making real progress — defined by Rowe as “whatever is conducive…
From Ecology To Education
Politics in many ways has become a bully boy gimmick. One has to read beyond headlines and think of deeper processes and consequences. One such event was the recent cabinet…
Letter To Justin Trudeau On Canada Re-joining UNCCD
We, the CBD Alliance, the global platform of civil society and academic organisations working on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), congratulate your government for the decision to re-join the…
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