UK Funds Biodiversity but Subsidizes Biomass Energy
Biomass production is devastating forests in both the U.S. Southeast and Europe and the species that depend on them....
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UK to Plant Trees at Home, While Decimating U.S. Forests
Trees are important. The UK’s Tree Strategy wholeheartedly acknowledges that. So why is the UK so intent on continuing (and subsidizing) an industry that depe...
Bipartisan Effort to Prevent Pandemics and Biodiversity Loss
In a rare bipartisan move for Congress, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) today introduced the Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020, which w...
We Must Prevent Future Viruses by Ending Wildlife Trade
The bottom line is that the wildlife trade is a threat to our public health that only stands to become greater, meaning that we could have greatly reduced the r...
In “Biodiversity Superyear,” Will IUCN Rise to the Occasion?
(C) Shutterstock.com With the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress (WCC) taking place in just a few months, World...
Lawsuit Lands Fatal Blow on Pro-Trophy Hunting Council
(C) Mitchell Fitzsimmons After a lawsuit by NRDC and partners —represented by Democracy Forward—the Department of the Interior told a federal district court in...