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  2. May 2023
    1. Die Europäische Umweltagentur hat daher Österreich im Oktober 2020 ein vernichtendes Urteil ausgestellt - mehr als 80 % der durch Natura 2000 zu schützenden Arten und Lebensräume befinden sich in einem mangelhaften Zustand6 .
  3. Apr 2023
    1. Eine neue Studie ergibt, dass der Verlust der Biodiversität noch dramatischer und Gegenmaßnahmen noch dringender sind als bisher angenommen. Untersuchungen zu großen Säugetieren und Vögeln zeigen, dass bisher zu wenig berücksichtigt wurde, dass sich wichtige Treiber des Artensterbens erst mit jahrzehntelanger Verzögerung auswirken. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65315823

    1. Aus einer neuen Studie geht hervor, dass ein großer Teil der vom Aussterben bedrohten Insektenarten von den bestehenden Schutzgebieten nicht geschützt wird. Die Ausweitung der Schutzgebiete, die bei der Kopf 15 international beschlossen wurde, ist nur wirksam, wenn die Lebensräume von Insekten bei der Ausweisung von Naturschutzgebieten berücksichtigt werden. https://taz.de/Insektensterben-weltweit/!5925443/

    1. Insekten sind für das Überleben der Menschen und vieler anderer Arten notwendig. Sie sterben aufgrund menschlicher Einflüsse so schnell aus, dass ein Kipppunkt bevorsteht oder sogar schon erreicht sein könnte, an dem sie völlig verschwinden. Langes Interview mit Dave Goulson, der über diese unmittelbar bevorstehende existentielle Gefahr das Buch Silent Earth (dt. Stumme Erde. Warum wir die Insekten retten müssen. Hanser, 2022) geschrieben hat. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/un-monde-sans-insectes-ce-serait-une-catastrophe-20230411_KXU7INKK35BIRK63L53BFAEYZ4/

  4. Mar 2023
    1. Keine der bisherigen Regelungen internationalen Regelungen zum Schutz der Biodiversität wurde auch nur annähernd eingehalten. Zur Zeit ist eine von 8 Millionen Arten auf der Erde vom Aussterben bedroht. Ein Abkommen dass wirklich umgesetzt wird, muss laut Inger Anderson, checking der un Umweltorganisation, kl are quantitative Ziele enthalten. Aaußerdem muss es auf Daten von hoher Qualität beruhen. Außerdem sind klar definierte nationale Ziele nötig

  5. Feb 2023
  6. Jan 2023
    1. Due to climate change, we have become accustomed to the concept of reducing our ecological footprint and the goal of net zero emissions. However, the biodiversity crisis is not yet a familiar term for many, although it is acutely endangered. With this, the long-term investment opportunities as well because it is the foundation of many aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, this is still not recognized by the short-sighted and greedy actions of mankind. But protecting and restoring biodiversity creates opportunities!

      Read the full article about biodiversity and sustainable investments.

  7. Nov 2022
    1. Klimaschutz und Bewahren der Artenvielfalt hängen wechselseitig voneinander ab. Die Beschlüsse der bevorstehenden COP15 zur Biodiversität und der COP27 zum Klima müssen deshalb aufeinander aufbauen. Statements von Maruma Mrema, der Exekutivsekretärin der UN-Konvention für Biodiversität.

  8. Aug 2022
    1. Jake Fiennes, the head of conservation at the Holkham estate in Norfolk and author of nature-friendly farming book Land Healer, said he was unsurprised by the results of the report

      Es ist interessant, dass die ökologische Produktion nicht weniger effizient ist als die konventionelle. Es hat offenbar – wie bei der Energie, folgt man Malm – andere Gründe, wenn sie abgelehnt wird.

    2. 10-year project by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology revealed that nature-friendly farming methods boost biodiversity without reducing average yield
    1. Il pesce scorpione, il pesce palla maculato e due specie di pesce coniglio sono i protagonisti della campagna di monitoraggio "Attenti a quei 4" organizzata dall’Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (Ispra) e l'Istituto per le risorse biologiche e le biotecnologie marine del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Cnr-Irbim).
  9. Jul 2022
    1. Das ist in den meisten Fällen kompletter Quatsch, zeigt eine Studie internationaler Wissenschaftler°innen, die Anfang des Jahres erschien. Ihr Ergebnis: Maßnahmen zur Erhaltung der Biodiversität sind nicht kontraproduktiv, sondern gehen Hand in Hand mit Klimaschutz

      Siehe auch die Studie zu Resilienz und Biodiversität...

  10. Jun 2022
    1. NY and NJ share the same bay, NJ will not join the Oyster program in fear people will eat them and get sick or die. Great post it actually cleaned up our waters where we now have all year visitors including whales, dolphins,tuna, seals all within sight of NYC.

      Despite those findings, Morris is optimistic about nature-based living reefs, which, she says, offer a much better economic and environmental investment than artificial counterparts. “You build these hard seawalls to withstand certain storms, certain events, certain future conditions,” she says, “But once these conditions are reached, they are not adaptive. You have to either build another seawall, or build the seawall higher, or repair them if they’re damaged in a storm.”

  11. Mar 2022
  12. Feb 2022
    1. The FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 reports that since 1990, India’s naturally regenerating forests increased only marginally by 6,700 sq.km. while, over the same period, plantations increased by 75,500 sq.km. About 92% of India’s so-called ‘forest cover increase’ between 1990 and 2020 has thus been via plantations.

      Actual Indian Forest cover data 2021 by GFRA 2020

      ... contradiction between GFRA and ISFR

    2. India’s forest cover really increasing
  13. Jan 2022
  14. Oct 2021
    1. In ecology, edge effects are changes in population or community structures that occur at the boundary of two or more habitats.[1] Areas with small habitat fragments exhibit especially pronounced edge effects that may extend throughout the range. As the edge effects increase, the boundary habitat allows for greater biodiversity.

      Edge Effects

      It was in the Design Science Studio that I learned about edge effects.

      Yesterday, I was thinking about how my life embodies the concept of edge effects. That same day, a book was delivered to our door, Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek.

      Today, I was reading these words:

      Design for the Real World

      Design for Survival and Survival through Design: A Summation

      Integrated, comprehensive, anticipatory design is the act of planning and shaping carried on across the various disciplines, an act continuously carried on at interfaces between them.

      Victor Papanek goes on to say:

      It is at the border of different techniques or disciplines that most new discoveries are made and most action is inaugurated. It is when two differing areas of knowledge are brought into contact with one another that… a new science may come into being.

      (Page 323)


      Exiles and Emigrés

      The Bauhaus spread its ideas because it existed at the boundaries, the avant-garde, the edges of what was thought to be possible, especially as a socialist utopian idea found its way to a capitalist industrial-military complex, where the concept of modernism was co-opted and colonized by globalizing economic forces beyond the control of the individual. Design was the virus that propagated around the world through the vehicle of corporate globalization.

      That same design ethic is infecting corporations with a conscience, with empathy, with a process that begins with listening to people. Design is the virus that can spread the values of unconditional love throughout the body of neoliberal capitalism.

  15. Sep 2021
    1. "If you look at a map of the distribution of languages around the world and you compare it with maps that show the distribution of mammal species or bird species, you see an extraordinarily similar picture: The hot spots of linguistic diversity, in so many cases, coincide with hot spots of biological diversity," he said.

      Making the connection between language diversity and biodiversity.

  16. Jun 2021
  17. Apr 2021
    1. New research shows that lake "stratification periods" – a seasonal separation of water into layers – will last longer in a warmer climate. These longer periods of stratification could have "far-reaching implications" for lake ecosystems, the paper says, and can drive toxic algal blooms, fish die-offs and increased methane emissions.

      Eine neue Studie ergibt, dass die globale Erhitzung die Ökosysteme von Seen weltweit schädigt. Die Periode, in der sich das Wasser in Schichten teilt, dauert länger. Dramatische Veränderungen mit Schäden für die Biodiversität lassen sich z.B. in den großen amerikanischen Seen beobachten. Kurzbericht: Climate Change Could Cause ‘Irreversible Impacts’ to Lakes - EcoWatch, Details: Climate change could cause ‘irreversible impacts’ to lake ecosystems | Carbon Brief, Studie: Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change | Nature Communications

    1. The ocean contains unique biodiversity, provides valuable food resources and is a major sink for anthropogenic carbon. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an effective tool for restoring ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services1,2, but at present only 2.7% of the ocean is highly protected3. This low level of ocean protection is due largely to conflicts with fisheries and other extractive uses.
    1. The rate at which the world’s forests are being destroyed increased sharply last year, with at least 42,000 sq km of tree cover lost in key tropical regions.According to data from the University of Maryland and the online monitoring platform Global Forest Watch, the loss was well above the average for the last 20 years, with 2020 the third worst year for forest destruction since 2002 when comparable monitoring began.
  18. Mar 2021
    1. Systematische Bestandsaufnahme der CO2-Emissionen durch Schleppnetze. Sie sind größer als die Emissionen Deutschland oder des Luftverkehrs. Veröffentlichen in Nature im Vorfeld der Biodiversitätskonferenz in China, Verweis auf ein paralleles Projekt zu terrestrischen Systemen.

    1. 17,6% des espèces évaluées sont menacées en France, d’après la liste rouge élaborée par l’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN),

      Gute knappe Zusammenfassung der Situation in Frankreich, Benennung der wichtigsten Ursachen und der Beziehungen zur Veränderung des Klimas (nicht die Hauptursache, gleich schwere Bedrohungen.)

  19. Jan 2021
  20. Dec 2020
    1. Ausführlicher Bericht über eine neue Studie, die sich damit beschäftigt, wie die Lebensräume von Landwirbeltieren erhalten werden können, die sonst zu einem großen Teil bis 2050 ganz oder teilweise verloren gehen.

  21. Nov 2020
  22. Sep 2020
    1. At the global level none of the 20 targets have been fully achieved, though six targets have been partially achieved (Targets 9, 11, 16, 17, 19 and 20). Examining the 60 specific elements of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, seven have been achieved and 38 show progress. Thirteen elements show no progress or indicate a move away from the target, and for two elements the level of progress is unknown. The table on the following pages provides an overview of the progress made towards each of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

      +!!. So 0/20 achieved. 6 partially achieved. Of more granular items 7/60 and 38 show progress. 13 we have gone backward.

  23. Aug 2018
    1. the same 15 crops that accounted for 85 percent of total harvested area in 1994 continued to account for approximately the same share of total harvested area in 2012

      15 crops account for 85% of harvested area

  24. Mar 2018
    1. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee put it unequivocally:“The EU plays a crucial role in developing policy and legislation to protect the environment and meet its objective for sustainable development. The EU has specific targets for biodiversity conservation with legislative protection for key habitats and species”.The committee makes two other points:“The EU and global biodiversity targets are partly delivered through a range of legislative measures, which place obligations on Member States to protect biodiversity and the natural environment. The EU and Member States have shared legal competence—shared responsibility—in forming and implementing legislation for the environment”.