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PA Wilds Center Announces 2024 PA Wilds Champion Award Winners; Recognition Dinner July 25

PA Environment Daily

The Champion of the Pennsylvania Wilds Awards celebrate individuals, organizations, communities and businesses that are making significant contributions to grow and sustainably develop the outdoor recreation economy and nature tourism in the Pennsylvania Wilds. “It

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Anna Savage – The canary in the coal mine

Frontiers

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15 Life on Land is about aiming to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

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The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

Vermont Law

It promised sustainable and responsible travel to make people aware and do good for the environment. And as all so-claimed “eco”-friendly things do, it gained significant popularity as a way to experience nature’s wonders while supporting conservation efforts. In Nagarahole Budakattu Hakku Sthapana Samithi v. In Union of India v.

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ESA Policy News: December 5, 2022

ESA

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Geological Survey (USGS) study to create an action plan for a robust multi-year integrated program to assess, monitor and conserve saline lake ecosystems such as the Great Salt Lake. Scientific Community. Federal Register opportunities.

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Policy News: March 28, 2022

ESA

White-nose syndrome is a deadly fungal infection that was first discovered in New York in 2006. This proposal is part of Governor Newsom’s pledge to conserve 30% of California’s lands and waters by 2030. The Zoological Society of London and Conservation Alpha will independently calculate the rhino growth rate.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

The rate of soil loss is twice as high in developing nations as in developed ones. Thanks to the use of fertilizer, wealthy European nations and the United States have adopted soil conservation and no-till methods, which prevent erosion. This is due to both rising agricultural productivity and environmental conservation. [32]

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

In reality I debunk the unscientific claim that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction,” and make the case that our conservation concern should be focused on protecting and expanding habitat and the number of wild animals. This was the seed of what the UN would christen “sustainable development.” Seven years later, the U.N.