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ALLIANCEOF MOTHERNATURE’SGUARDIANS
▻http://planeteamazone.org/documents/AGMN/AMNG-2017_EN_web.pdf

What is the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians ?
The Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians in action
The founders of the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians
The Constitution of the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians: 17 proposals for the planet and future generations

Planète Amazone - ONG de défense des peuples autochtones
▻http://planeteamazone.org

Gert Peter Bruch | IUCN évènement
▻https://www.70uicn.fr/en/gert-peter-bruch
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Committed since 1989 next to indigenous peoples of the Amazon, Gert-Peter Bruch is founder of the NGO “Planet Amazon”, which ensures the respect of their rights and the recognition of those of nature. To this end, he organized numerous field missions and awareness campaigns, including three international tours of Cacique Raoni Metuktire, emblematic defender of the Amazon rainforest.
Gert-Peter Bruch is also a film director and co-founder and member of the Executive Committee of the “Alliance of Guardians of Mother Nature”, an international movement of proposals and actions to fight against global warming and preserve living conditions viable for future generations.

#environnement #écologie #ngo #activisme

Meeting #9: SUN 30 Dec 2 – 5pm – Extinction Club Reading Group | 读书会 灭绝学
▻http://oumopo.com/extinctionclub/2018/12/27/meeting-9-sun-30-dec-2-5pm

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“The pika is a small, rather cute mammal that looks a bit like a hamster. … Since they depend on cool, high-mountain habitats to survive, pikas have been coping with the higher temperatures caused by climate change by moving up mountain slopes at a rate that has increased eleven-fold over the last ten years. Pikas eventually arrive at the top of their mountains; at this point, they have nowhere left to go to escape global warming.”

The rare and endangered ili pika, endemic to the Tianshan mountains of northwestern China and listed by he IUCN as vulnerable to extinction, has been described as ‘an unbelievably cute mammal with a teddy-bear face’. What do seductive start-up terms like ‘de-extinction’, ‘biogenesis’ and ‘ecomodernism’ have to do with our plucky little climbing pika? How do arguments for a techno-engineered biodiversity prop up the old myth of endless growth continuing to drive our planet to the brink of disaster? In his book Extinction: A Radical History (2016), Ashley Dawson calls for an anticapitalist movement against extinction, one that rejects ‘capitalist biopiracy and imperialist enclosure of the global commons’. We’ll read a chapter from the book and share some cake.

#chine #extinction_studies

Healthy soils can boost food security and climate resilience for millions (commentary)
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/healthy-soils-can-boost-food-security-and-climate-resilience-for-mill

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Drylands take centre stage this week as world leaders gather in Ordos, in the Inner Mongolia region of China, for the thirteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP13).
The health of many dryland ecosystems has declined dramatically over recent decades, largely due to unsustainable farming methods, increasing drought, deforestation, and clearance of natural grasslands.
Changing the way drylands are farmed to conserve life underground is the only way of restoring these ecosystems and the agricultural outputs they sustain.
This post is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily Mongabay.

#sols #climat #agriculture

How indigenous nomadic pastoralists in Iran are using GIS maps to defend and conserve their territories
▻https://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-nomadic-pastoralists-iran-gis-maps-conserve

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These days, GIS digital maps are proving a really useful tool for Indigenous Peoples to delineate their own customary territories, which are often different from official maps. Many local communities are learning how to use the technology and working with experts in participatory mapping activities. Participatory GIS has turned into a sort of “counter mapping” enabling local communities to make their own maps and models, and using these for their own research, analysis, assertion of rights and resolution of conflicts over land. Such mapping exercises also motivate community members to keep on defending and conserving nature and their territories as they have done for thousands of years, in spite of the difficulties they encounter.

The Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA), a Civil Society Organization working in Iran and a founding member of IUCN, has been advocating for ICCAs for decades. This photo-essay captures CENESTA’s experience supporting Iranian Indigenous communities in mapping out their territories.

#pastoralisme #nomadisme #cartographie #territoire #Iran

Women could be a key to great ape conservation in the Congo
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2017/04/women-could-be-a-key-to-great-ape-conservation-in-the-congo

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Ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has taken a heavy toll on the country’s women, with sexual violence there gaining the DRC a label as the “most dangerous place to be a woman.” The nation’s civil strife — along with bushmeat hunting and human encroachment — also threaten its wildlife, especially gorillas, bonobos and chimpanzees.

According to the African Wildlife Federation website, bonobos have been vanishing rapidly for the past 20 years from their habitat, which is restricted to the DRC. Meanwhile, only about 3,800* Critically Endangered Grauer’s gorillas remain in their DRC homeland. Chimpanzees, found in 21 African countries, including the DRC, are also IUCN Red Listed as Endangered.

But now, DRC women are overcoming their own difficulties, and with a novel assist from international conservation organizations, are coming to the rescue of Congo’s great apes.

The Bonobo Conservation Initiative (BCI), Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE), the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), and Coopera are all working side-by-side with local women to help advance great ape conservation through education, empowerment, access to health care and food security.

#femmes #primates #traumatisme #RDC #conservation

Cameroon to restore 12 million hectares of forest in species-rich Congo Basin | IUCN
▻https://www.iucn.org/news/forests/201702/cameroon-restore-12-million-hectares-forest-species-rich-congo-basin

Cameroon has committed to restoring over 12 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2030 as part of the Bonn Challenge initiative. The pledge is the biggest made so far in the species-rich Congo Basin, home to the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest.

#Cameroun #forêt #déforestation #restauration #Bonn_Challenge

Edit : @odilon a raison. Nous sommes souvent trop fainéant (ou alors on va beaucoup trop vite). Sur les thèmes ou les initiatives intéressantes, on devrait prendre l’habitude de remonter à la source originale - ou au plus près - le plus souvent possible, ce que je fais très volontiers ici. En essayant de faire vraiment attention à la manière dont on cite les journaux #journalisme comme Le Monde pour n’en citer qu’un. Mais oui, il y en a aussi beaucoup d’autres.

Identifying species threat hotspots from global supply chains : Nature Ecology & Evolution

►http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-016-0023

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Identifying hotspots of species threat has been a successful approach for setting conservation priorities. One important challenge in conservation is that, in many hotspots, export industries continue to drive overexploitation. Conservation measures must consider not just the point of impact, but also the consumer demand that ultimately drives resource use. To understand which species threat hotspots are driven by which consumers, we have developed a new approach to link a set of biodiversity footprint accounts to the hotspots of threatened species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The result is a map connecting consumption to spatially explicit hotspots driven by production on a global scale. Locating biodiversity threat hotspots driven by consumption of goods and services can help to connect conservationists, consumers, companies and governments in order to better target conservation actions.

Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?
▻https://www.carbonbrief.org/polar-bears-and-climate-change-what-does-the-science-say

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Overall, the #IUCN estimates the total number of polar bears at 26,000, with only a 5% chance that it’s less than 22,000 or more than 31,000. But given several polar bear subpopulations are still unaccounted for and there is high uncertainty about the numbers that do exist, scientists are wary of trying to pinpoint the absolute size of the global polar bear population.

[...] Scientists’ best estimate is that there’s a 70% chance the global population of polar bears will fall by more than a third within the next three generations.

According to IUCN criteria, this qualifies polar bears as “vulnerable”, reflecting the potential for large reductions in the global population as climate change and sea-ice loss continue.

[...] The IUCN assessment doesn’t look at the extinction risk for polar bears over a time-span of longer than about 35 years – or three generations of polar bears. But without action to tackle climate change, it is likely that many polar beat subpopulations will cross “tipping points” over the next century if sea-ice loss continues as forecasted, says Cator.

#ours_blanc #arctique #biodiversité #climat

More than 90% of lemurs face extinction, IUCN warns | Environment | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/12/more-than-90-of-lemurs-face-extinction-iucn-warns

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State of the Ocean.org - Research

▻http://www.stateoftheocean.org/research.cfm

London - October 3rd 2013: An international panel of marine scientists is demanding urgent remedies to halt ocean degradation based on findings that the rate, speed and impacts of change in the global ocean are greater, faster and more imminent than previously thought.

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Results from the latest International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO)/IUCN review of science on anthropogenic stressors on the ocean go beyond the conclusion reached last week by the UN climate change panel the IPCC that the ocean is absorbing much of the warming and unprecedented levels of carbon dioxide and warn that the cumulative impact of this with other ocean stressors is far graver than previous estimates.

Decreasing oxygen levels in the ocean caused by climate change and nitrogen run-off, combined with other chemical pollution and rampant overfishing are undermining the ability of the ocean to withstand these so-called ’carbon perturbations’, meaning its role as Earth’s ’buffer’ is seriously compromised.

#océans #mer #écologie #environnement #environnement_marin