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According to the World Wildlife Fund‘s annual Living Planet report, humans are using Earth’s resources at a rate 1.5 times greater than the rate of replenishment. ”During the 1970s, humanity as a whole passed the point at which the annual Ecological Footprint matched the Earth’s annual biocapacity. This situation is called “ecological overshoot”, and has continued since [...]
Tue, Nov 8, 2011
In a bold and unconventional move, a critically endangered black rhino has been carried via helicopter over dangerous and rugged terrain, as part of the WWF‘s Black Rhino Range Expansion Project in South Africa. The helicopter flight took around 10 minutes, and the animal didn’t suffer any physical damage during this whole operation, according [...]
Wed, Jul 14, 2010
I’m not sure if most of you are aware of this, but consider this: there are only 3,200 tigers left in the world! Almost three times fewer than there were 10 years ago and more than 30 times fewer with respect to the data from 100 years ago (back then 100.000 years roamed freely the [...]
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