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Empowering each other by sharing what we know
The ICF was set up to enable experts in the environment and conservation to share their ideas with all of us. Above all else, it is a place to share solutions and work together to implement them. Please join our campaigns and share the articles below. You can learn about our work on specific issues by following the links in the Topics section on the right side of the page.
February 19, 2011
February 3, 2011
World’s ‘rarest’ mammal, the Javan rhino, caught on camera
Four Javan rhinos, among the Earth’s most endangered species — and possibly the rarest mammal — have been captured on a motion-activated camera deep inside Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park. The two adults and two calves were caught on two separate videos taken in December and released this week by the World Wildlife Fund.
Please click here to join our campaign to save endangered rhinos from extinction.
January 25, 2011
What is nature worth?
by Brendan Barrett on January 18, 2010
“We need a new business model,” says Dr. Gretchen C. Daily. “What we need to start doing is recognizing the value of many other types of benefits [from nature], like water purification, climate stabilization, and biodiversity.”
Daily recently spoke at a special ceremony at the United Nations University in Tokyo where she received the 2009 International Cosmos Prize. (PDFs of her remarks and slide presentation can be downloaded here.) (more…)
Help stop illegal wildlife trade
by Remi Chandran on April 2, 2010
The recent intense two-week meeting on trade in endangered species has been described as a failure in many newspapers and blogs, principally because member countries could not reach an agreement on new trade measures to protect certain marine species. (more…)
Linking human and environmental security
by Alan Zulch on February 25, 2011
What if we changed our relationship with the natural world from one of taking what we can to one of reciprocity and mutual giving?
The International Satoyama Initiative, formally launched at this past October’s COP10 Biodiversity Conference in Nagoya, Japan, provides an important boost to preserving traditional forest and farmland (satoyama), and seaside (satoumi) ecological production landscapes around the world. Its aim of restoring a balanced and sustainable harmony between humans and the natural environment is something no one could argue the world does not need. (more…)
The economics of ecosystems
By Carol Smith
World leaders must get their priorities straight or risk global economic upheaval that will be caused by something most of us fail to consider, says a new report. Biodiversity loss will end up affecting even advanced economies because “natural systems that support lives and livelihoods are at risk of collapsing,” says the third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3) assessment report.
“The consequences of this collective failure, if it is not quickly corrected, will be severe for us all,” writes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his foreword to GBO-3. (more…)
January 20, 2011
Tiger Eye: Up Close and Personal
Watch this National Geographic video of a tiger in the wild, and then join our campaign to save tigers from extinction.
January 15, 2011
Broken Tail: A Tiger’s Last Journey
The tiger known as Broken Tail was born in Ranthambhore National Park in northern India, a vast, natural reserve for a wide variety of Indian wildlife, but especially famous for its Bengal tigers. Historically revered in Indian tradition, tigers in the area were once protected by maharajahs, and then by government sanctuaries and conservation projects. But poachers have proven to be nearly unstoppable over the years, and tigers have struggled to survive, even with the protection of the park. (more…)
Protecting the Black Rhino from Extinction
Please share this video about efforts in Nairobi National Park to care for a group of black rhino before sending them off to protected parks. (Video opens in new window).
More than 90 per cent of all rhino species have already been wiped out. We must act now before it’s too late. Join our campaign to save these endangered species from extinction.
January 10, 2011
Our last, best chance to save wild tigers
President of the World Bank, Robert B. Zoellick, speaks about how we can save tigers from extinction.
