Conversation with Jane Goodall, acclaimed primatologist, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and a U.N. Messenger of Peace.
"Every individual matters," she says. "Animals matter, too. They have feelings and every day you live you make some impact on the planet and you have a choice: What kind of impact will I make? Think about the consequences of the little choices, like what you buy, eat, wear. Where did it come from? How was it made? Did it involve cruelty to animals or child slave labor? Do I need it? Gandhi said this planet can provide for human need, but not human greed. That's a very important message."
When is doing the “right thing” the wrong thing to do?
"Often people will come across them and see that they've been orphaned or abandoned when that's not the case," she said. "These ones were in care with the person who found them for about a week before they decided to call for help."
People just want to ride the elephant. What goes wrong when we exploit animals for profit?
Thousands of people have signed a petition against elephant-riding after an animal in Cambodia died after ferrying tourists to the famous Angkor Wat temple complex.
You can sign the petition here.
More developments like this please. Even in solar unfriendly Florida a sustainable community can happen.
Solar power is just the beginning of Kitson’s plans to transform Babcock Ranch into what Kitson & Partners call “the most sustainable, most innovative and health-focused new town in the country.” The town itself is being constructed on an old sod farm, which will minimize the trees that need to be cleared to make way for the development. There are plans for autonomous electric vehicles to run the town’s public transportation fleet. All buildings constructed within the community will be built so that solar panels could eventually be installed on their roofs. The community’s initial downtown structures will all have solar shade structures, outfitted with solar panels, and have roofs that could accommodate more panels should the owner decide they want to expand their capacity.
Every creature has a role to play. At least that's the case if you want a forest.
Large-seeded tree species which depend on big animals for seed dispersal grow to greater sizes as adults and thus have higher carbon storage potential than species with smaller seeds in tropical forests worldwide, according to the research.
Losses of large seed dispersers can therefore reduce carbon storage by the earth’s tropical forests by decreasing the volume of vegetation biomass in these forests.
Species translocation – radical, controversial, necessary…
“The impact that people have on the planet is ever-increasing,” he said. “The times when we could simply hope that we could set areas aside for species are increasingly disappearing. We are in a situation of emerging threats due to climate change that we need to more actively manage species otherwise we will lose them.”
Size doesn’t matter. Big brains may not be the brightest.
Scientists have long known that brain size alone is not a measure of intelligence, and the international team of researchers behind this new study argues that intelligence may be related to the brain’s structure and how many neurons it has.
Richard Leakey, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. You’ll just have to read the article.
“I’m really concerned that, through population growth and unplanned development around the parks, we’ve created ‘islands’ for the wildlife. And if you look at the paleontological record, where there are islands and there has been climate change the island species become extinct long before they do on the mainland because there is nowhere to go.”
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