Media headlines

• Go green, eat greens
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  HEALTH professionals these days advocate eating more fruit and vegetables (up to 13 servings of fruit and vegetables a day) and less meat. It's not just for health; environmental reasons are equally important.
• Miracle Tree is Like a Supermarket
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  CAPE TOWN, Jan 25, 2012 (IPS) - When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.
• Consumers are making sustainable choices, all they need is a little guidance
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  Asda study shows consumers - regardless of age, gender or income - are choosing sustainable products and services
• U.S. group wants trade ban on Canada for polar bear hunt
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  A U.S. conservation group is calling for trade sanctions against Canada because of an increased polar bear hunt quota in the Western Hudson Bay region.
• Poaching for meat poses new extinction risk to Thai elephants
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  Thailand's revered national symbol is being poached not just for its tusks, but now for its meat
• World's giant trees are dying off rapidly, studies show
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  Ecological 'kings of the jungle' being toppled by forest fragmentation, severe drought and new pests and diseases
• Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  Tropical countries may face a risk of 'peak timber' as continued logging of rainforests exceeds the capacity of forests to regenerate timber stocks and substantially increases the risk of outright clearing for agricultural and industrial plantations, argues a trio of scientists writing in the journal Biological Conservation.
• New Orleans Protection Plan Will Rely on Wetlands to Hold Back Hurricanes
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  More than six years after Hurricane Katrina plowed into New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, a plan has finally emerged to protect the area from future storms.
• Biodiversity: Poland referred to court
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  The European Commission decided, on 26 January, to refer Poland to the EU Court of Justice for failing to fulfil its obligations to protect biodiversity and conserve "old" vegetable seed varieties.
• Marine Mammals On the Menu in Many Parts of World
  [released on: 26/01/2012]
  The fate of the world's great whale species commands global attention as a result of heated debate between pro and anti-whaling advocates, but the fate of smaller marine mammals is less understood, specifically because the deliberate and accidental harvesting of dolphins, porpoises, manatees and other warm-blooded aquatic denizens is rarely studied or monitored.