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Viruses love bats. The flying nocturnal mammals make outstanding hosts because — just like people — they live in large, dense groups, their air travel spreads germs between populations and their longevity enables a virus to persist for years in an individual animal.

Forest & Bird's CEO Kevin Hague believes the way New Zealand commercial fishers take fish from the sea is not in any way sustainable...he says: "The entire commercial fishing system is set up to extract as much as possible for as long as possible from the ocean at the expense of the ocean and

Upcoming elections and the economic impact of COVID-19 have put higher pressure on the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) to pay off in creating more sustainable pelagic fishing sources for Palau.

Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions like farming, logging, hunting, development and global commerce have caused record losses of species on land and at sea.

The idea of moving an entire population en masse is just one of several radical measures under consideration by the island populations most threatened by rising seas. The world’s only atoll nations—in the Pacific, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands; in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives—

Fishing grounds, in Fijian referred to as qoliqoli, are traditionally owned by clans or communities.

Director for Environment Sandeep Singh has been crossed examined in the case against Freesoul Real Estate Development Limited. The company is charged with one count of Undertaking Unauthorised Development and Failure to comply with a Prohibition Notice.

The government had to embark on a major tree-planting revolution as the deforestation rate was becoming a concern.

GBIF invites the submission of concept notes for project funding from the Pacific through Biodiversity Information for Development (BID), a programme funded by the Directorate-General for International Partnerships of the European Union.

Forest & Bird is welcoming new protected areas as a starting point for improving protection of the Mackenzie Basin, but lamenting the vast areas which remain unprotected.