Biodiversity

Should We Be Worried About A Green Wall Street?

The simple answer is yes, because of the common interests of shareholders and executives. With biodiversity in peril from overexploitation and the continued destruction of natural environments for agriculture and housing, there…

Why CoP15 Must Not Become A Cop-Out

The world has got used to an annual conference discussing the climate crisis, but the sister conference tackling biodiversity loss is almost an unknown. The conference of the Convention on Biological Diversity…

Basic Income vs. Sustainable Use

Many stakeholders who profit from the ‘sustainable’ use of wild species benefit from having people believe that the sustainable use model is the only way to save the natural world. It is…

High Fashion Courts Presidents and Princesses

Some conservationists felt a sense of relief to hear President Macron’s “end of abundance, the end of insouciance, the end of assumptions” speech, at the French government’s first cabinet meeting after the…

Why Humans Don’t Care About Nature – Part III

This is Part III of a 3-part series. Go to: Part I, Part II The aim of the powerful today is not to restore balance with nature or to re-discover the divine in nature.…

Why Humans Don’t Care About Nature – Part II

This is Part II of a 3-part series. Go to: Part I, Part III A recent book “Theology and Climate Change” by Paul Tyson examines this question of the origins of our current guiding…

Why Humans Don’t Care About Nature – Part I

This is Part I of a 3-part series. Go to: Part II, Part III Looking at our relentless overexploitation of nature and especially of biodiversity, we have to ask the question: “How…

50 Years Of CITES, A Regulator Flawed From The Very Start

In 2019, the primary intergovernmental body monitoring biodiversity (IBPES) reported that 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. It also confirmed that direct exploitation for trade is the most…