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1-10 of 53 for the Category : Conservation and the Subcategory : BiodiversityActivism
( Article Type: Explanation )
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines activism as ‘a policy of vigorous action in a cause, especially in politics.’ The opposite of active is passive or inactive. But as far as environmental protection is concerned, just what does activism entail
Read more about ActivismAfrican Environmental Tradition
( Article Type: Opinion )
Respected friends, when most people talk about the extinction of wildlife as well as plant life on this planet of ours, they tend to make the mistake of talking about something, which happened in the remote past.
Read more about African Environmental TraditionAlien Invasive Plants in South Africa
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In South Africa 198 plant species have been declared weeds and invaders. These plants are termed ‘invaders’ because they spread and displace the indigenous plants. The question then is ‘Why are invasive alien plants such a problem?’
Read more about Alien Invasive Plants in South AfricaBiodiversity
( Article Type: Explanation )
The term ‘biodiversity’ refers to genes, species (plants and animals), ecosystems, and landscapes, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that allow these elements of biodiversity to persist over time.
Read more about BiodiversityBiodiversity & the Sixth Extinction
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‘For each of the Big Five [extinctions] there are theories of what caused them, some are compelling, but none proven. For the sixth extinction, however, we do know the culprit. We are.’ – Leakey & Lewin (1995)
Read more about Biodiversity & the Sixth ExtinctionBioprospecting
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‘Biodiversity prospecting’, sometimes shortened to ‘bioprospecting’, is the exploration of biodiversity for commercially valuable genetic resources and biochemicals. It describes a search for resources, and the collection of resources with th
Read more about BioprospectingCape Floral Kingdom
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On the southwestern tip of Africa is the smallest of the six floral ‘kingdoms’, the Cape Floral Kingdom. It is the only one in the world contained within a single national boundary, and is the richest in that it has the most species, and even the
Read more about Cape Floral KingdomDeep Ecology
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The Deep Ecology worldview asks that we do some deep thinking about who we are and what our role is on the planet. The term was coined by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972 and defines an ecocentric environmental worldview.
Read more about Deep EcologyDeforestation
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The world’s forests, both temperate and tropical, are under enormous pressures from disease (often as a result of air pollution, notably from acid rain), felling for timber needs, clearing for agriculture, or loss under reservoirs through the dammi
Read more about DeforestationDesertification
( Article Type: Overview )
Desertification is defined as ‘land degradation in arid, semiarid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities’. The important point is that there is loss of productivity of the land.
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