Traditional livelihoods decline in Borneo forests as communities rely on mining, logging jobs, so say CIFOR: A new study by the Center for International Forestry Research has found that villages along the Malinau River, an area rich in valuable timber and mineral resources, are relying less on traditional livelihoods — typically a mixture of hunting, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘environmental movement’
6 Sep
Conservation and Compromise
Here are some recent posts on blogs I follow which, depending upon your perspective, may count as either good or bad news: WWF are in the firing line for their Global Forest and Trade Network being little more than greenwashing. The climate for climate change mitigation related regulation is markedly better in many (mostly developing) [...]
6 Jun
World Whatever Day
Yesterday was World Environment Day. Woohoo! Being of a greenish persuasion I guess I should be more enthusiastic, but, honestly who exactly pays attention to these things? How many such days are there, any way? I suspect rather more than 365 … I can see they are not without their uses. They can be good [...]
25 May
CI’s Defence
Conservation International have hit back at their accusers over the ‘scandal’ of their engagement with big business with CI’s CEO Peter Seligmann’s robust defence of their approach. I note that Seligmann raises many of the same points I did last week. Seligmann also points fingers of his own, accusing the investigators of using all the [...]
18 May
CI screws up
I couldn’t ignore the big scandal about Conservation International’s apparent willingness to greenwash the biggest arms company in the world. That this story should break just after my post In defence of BINGOs is unfortunate. Greenwashery? The scandal raises many issues, but let’s start with the notion of greenwashing. The allegation is that a seat [...]
13 Dec
Something is better than nothing
A blog on conservation and development surely cannot let the Cancun summit on climate change pass without any comment. On the other hand it does all seem a rather long way from the day to day work in which I am involved. Many of my colleagues made the trip over but I cannot say I [...]
14 Jun
Is this a bad time to be associated with the colour green?
A lot of Jihadist organisations use flags with a strong green element. Green is one of BP’s colours. And then there is England’s goalkeeper. Let’s hope this doesn’t spell bad news for the environmental movement!
