Retour d'une extinction programmée / Return from near extinction. La CITES ouvre la voie au sauvetage des requins. Pacifique: Palau, sanctuaire de requins, veut bannir la pêche commerciale. Les requins triomphent à Bangkok, les éléphants en demi-teinte. New 'Green List' shows species on path to conservation success.
The IUCN World Conservation Congress has adopted a motion sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society and partners to create a Green List to assess conservation success.
The Green List for Species would include species identified as 'fully conserved,' which are those that exist in ecologically significant numbers, interacting fully with other species in their ecosystems. The motion was adopted at the World Conservation Congress, which was held this month in Jeju, Republic of Korea. The aim of the Green List is to highlight species that are thriving parts of a healthy ecosystem and will emphasize that conservation is about more than just preventing extinction. "Successful species conservation involves the conservation of a species with significant populations, interacting fully with a complete suite of other native species and processes," said WCS President and CEO Dr.
Cristián Samper. The Green List will complement the IUCN Red List, which focuses on avoidance of extinction. Dr. South Korea scraps whaling plans. Updated Thu 12 Jul 2012, 11:49pm AEST The Federal Government says South Korea has abandoned its plans to start a so-called scientific whaling program. South Korea sparked an international outcry last week when it unveiled the plan at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama. The Australian Government labelled it unacceptable and ordered Australian diplomats to lodge protests in Seoul. Success! Leatherback Turtles Protected In Puerto Rico! A beautiful stretch of Puerto Rico’s north coast that developers have long coveted is now a nature reserve. The new reserve makes up 66 percent of what is known as the Northeast Ecological Corridor, located just north of El Yunque rainforest, a popular tourist attraction, and is also considered one of the prime nesting sites for the endangered leatherback turtle.
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Le gouvernement coréen avait en effet, lors de la réunion de la CBI qui se déroulait au Panama, annoncé son intention de chasser la baleine à des fins scientifiques. Suite à cette annonce, un délai de soumission formelle a été fixé au 3 décembre 2012 pour officialiser ou non la démarche. Mais revirement de situation il y a quelques jours : le CBI nous apprenait que la Corée avait finalement opté pour des recherches non létales ! Se réjouissant de cette excellente nouvelle, l’IFAW a proposé son aide à la Corée afin de trouver, ensemble, des solutions plus humaines pour étudier les baleines, sans mettre leurs vies en péril. Patrick Ramage, Directeur du programme Baleines d’IFAW, a ainsi déclaré : « Nous nous réjouissons de la confirmation officielle que le gouvernement de Corée a pris la bonne décision pour les baleines. La Corée saluée et sollicitée. Unlikely success: how Zimbabwe has become a global leader in rhino conservation. Raoul du Toit will be speaking at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo in San Francisco on October 12th, 2013.
With its collapsed economy, entrenched poverty, and political tremors, one would not expect that a country like Zimbabwe would have the capacity to safeguard its rhinos against determined and well-funded poachers, especially as just across the border South Africa is currently losing over two rhinos a day on average. And indeed, without the Lowveld Rhino Trust (LRT), rhinos in Zimbabwe would probably be near local extinction. La miraculeuse pervenche. Aires marines protégées au Sénégal. 110 Success Stories for Endangered Species Day 2012.
$24.5 million deal to protect 20,000-acre Sonoma County forest. Press Democrat, February 28, 2013 $24.5 million deal to protect 20,000-acre Sonoma County forest Bill Wilkison A national conservation group has reached an agreement to buy nearly 20,000 acres of timberland in northwestern Sonoma County, a move that derails the long-disputed, forest-to-vineyards conversion project pushed by CalPERS, the giant state workers pension fund.
2012 Accomplishments. Here are just a few of our favorite stories from 2013 that friends like you helped make possible!
To hear more great stories about how people are helping wildlife and connecting kids to nature, subscribe to our e-newsletter or read our Wildlife Promise blog. Wildlife and Habitat Protected! Bad Bison Bills Defeated NWF members, concerned sportsmen and other like-minded conservation groups across the country joined forces to defeat a barrage of anti-bison bills sponsored by Montana lawmakers. The bills would have blocked efforts to return wild bison to their native habitat.
Applaud the Creation of the World’s Largest Shark Sanctuary. Target: Teina Bishop, Cook Islands minister of marine resources Goal: Commend the Cook Islands for helping to protect sharks from being hunted and killed.
The Cook Islands in the South Pacific announced the creation of a 1.9 million-square-kilometer shark sanctuary that bans the possession, sale, and trade of shark products in an effort to end commercial shark fishing and remedy the upset in the oceanic food webs seen in recent years. The Cook Islands contribution to the sanctuary brings the total area protected to 6.7 million square kilometers, alongside the waters protected by French Polynesia and the Marshall Islands. L'Indonésie crée un grand sanctuaire pour la raie manta. Protecting predators in the wildest landscape you've never heard of. A Ruaha male lion in his prime.
Photo © : Sasja van Vechgel. The Serengeti, the Congo, the Okavango Delta: many of Africa's great wildernesses are household names, however on a continent that never fails to surprise remain vast wild lands practically unknown to the global public. Saving the Raja of India's grasslands: new efforts to conserve the Critically Endangered Great Indian Bustard.
The flagship species of India's grasslands and savannas, the Critically Endangered Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps).
Photo by: Ramki Sreenivasan/Conservation India. The Great Indian Bustard, one of India's iconic birds, once ranged across most of the Indian subcontinent. Due to a variety of factors, however, the Great Indian Bustard is also now India's rarest bird and faces imminent extinction. Falkland albatross shows increase. A new report indicates a healthy increase in the numbers of Black-browed Albatrosses breeding in the Falkland Islands (Las Malvinas).
The report, submitted to the Environment Committee of the Falkland Islands Government, indicated that recent and historical survey results show an increase in this threatened species. Black-browed Albatross is currently classified as Endangered by BirdLife on behalf of the IUCN Red List. Des chiens de berger sauvent de l'extinction une colonie de manchots en Nouvelle-Zélande.