Conservation

Conservation

Nature, wildlife and climate change

A story of peacock spiders, seabirds and koalas

The collective actions of animals over millions of years have shaped the planet’s climate to make it habitable for all. Our addiction to fossil fuels has become a smoke screen for this facet of reality. It’s true that humans are the major cause of climate change. However, the solutions aren’t simply about humans engineering new ecosystems. To give humanity the greatest chance of survival, we need to learn why saving wildlife will be critically important too. This is our best and only hope.

WILL PLANTING TREES SAVE US?

On stage at the New York climate summit this year, Bill Gates said it’s “complete nonsense” to think planting trees can solve climate change.

Naturally, Gates has a lot of people worried. He is a billionaire technocrat from the hardware and software space who holds sway among many nature-deficient and urbanised businesspeople. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, on the other hand, prefers to plant a trillion trees. He thinks he can solve the crisis that way.

Both have some merit but neither will work at scale. Because even tree planting is an engineering solution. It’s not ecologically…

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Everland and the Alto Mayo REDD+ Project

Changing the economics of deforestation

In 2019, I visited northern Peru to travel to an area of rainforest that had, at one time, seemed destined to disappear. I was part of a team supporting a successful conservation project in the Amazon, known as the Alto Mayo REDD+ Project, set up in 2008 by Conservation International and Peru’s National Parks Agency. […]

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Second Lives

Creating circularity and ‘second life’ products

As we are seeing such severe changes in climates across the globe, it is time for us to question our consumer and shopping habits. We should look for brands that are creative, sustainable and committed to be positive agents of change in what concerns the future of our planet. Circularity, commonly known as a lifecycle […]

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May The Wild Remain Wild

by Rafael Zuñiga

Wilderness Safaris have been working for almost four decades to protect millions of hectares across seven countries in Africa. They create unforgettable journeys for guests, who enjoy a front row seat in Africa’s awe-inspiring sights as well as encounters with the most majestic animals in the continent. Wilderness Safaris had its origins in Botswana in […]

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Rewilding the British Landscape

When we speak about conservation, it is very common that our minds fly to the majestic beasts roaming the plains of Africa or hiding in tropical jungles but the fact of the matter is that in Europe and specifically in Britain, many of our wildlife is threatened and at risk of extinction. It is estimated […]

Conservation, Travel

A family adventure on your doorstep

Home to the best safari experience in the UK, Port Lympne Reserve offers a family escapade like no other. From hand-feeding giraffes to spending the night in a luxurious lodge just inches away from a pride of lions, the whole experience is absolutely hypnotic. Set in over 600 acres of beautiful Kent landscape, Port Lympne […]

Conservation, Travel

Place of the Blue Crane

by Julia Pasarón

South Africa’s Kwandwe Private Game Reserve is a true conservation victory. Situated in the diverse and scenic Great Fish River valley of the Eastern Cape, its 22,000 hectares of pristine wilderness stretch either side of the river, which meanders for 30 kilometres through the rugged landscape of the reserve. The Great Fish River is of […]

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What Are We Breathing?

by Natasha Mudhar

The consequences of air pollution are rarely addressed until the very last minute. It’s only when cities smog up or occasional studies spotlight alarming figures, that governments transition into a state of damage control and seemingly begin implementing an action plan. However, air pollution is not a sporadic issue resulting from individual crisis points. For […]

Conservation, Lifestyle

Why Sarah Kate Byrne

Buys Only Vintage Clothes

Fashion is one of the major polluting industries, with the textile industry accounting for an estimated 25% of the total carbon emissions by 2050, making it the second-largest polluter in the world after the oil industry. If you wonder how this is possible, just think of all the steps required in the production and distribution […]

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Beneath The Sea

The World We Are About To Lose

I am sure it will not come as news to you that human activities are threatening life in the world’s oceans. More than 80% of marine pollution comes from land-based activities: oil spills, agricultural pesticides, industrial sewage, even air pollution… all of which contribute to poison the water and deplete oxygen levels, resulting in the […]

Conservation, Culture

Cristina Mittermeier

by Dr Andrew Hildreth

Rewriting the manual for planet Earth This is the year of social distancing and remote living, in which we feel a global common purpose to beat a virus that is sweeping the world. Therefore conservation has become an afterthought as we concentrate on our own immediate survival. But, what happens in the aftermath? What lessons […]

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David De Rothschild

Once upon a time in a spaceship called Earth

Although nowadays it has become very fashionable among the rich and famous to be a conservationist and “do things” to help the planet (including flying in private jets to talk about it while sipping bottled water from Fidji), very few people (rich, famous or otherwise) were in the game 20 years ago. One of those […]