On October 25th, Toronto City Council voted nearly unanimously in favor of a total ban on sale of shark fin or shark fin products, and became the fourth, and by far the largest, municipality in Canada to do so. Toronto… Read More »Toronto City Council votes to outlaw sale of shark fin and shark fin products — one small move to help these magnificant species.
Released September 29th, the NRT’s report, Paying the Price: The economic impacts of climate change for Canada, states unequivocally that climate change will have significant costs for this country. “Climate change costs for Canada could escalate from roughly $5 billion… Read More »Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRT) has released its report on the cost of climate change.
In an article published online in the journal Nature on 14th September, Luke Gibson and an international team of rain forest ecologists report a global analysis of tropical forest that shows that biodiversity cannot be retained if undisturbed primary forest… Read More »Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity.