May 15, 2012
Two years ago in Nagoya, Japan, 193 countries meeting for the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed on 20 targets to reduce global pressures on our natural world. Known as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, these goals cover everything from avoiding extinctions of threatened species to reducing subsidies that are harmful to the environment to protecting 17 percent of the Earth’s land and 10 percent of...
March 21, 2012
Golden-crowned sifaka in Madagascar. The country's unique biodiversity has made it a popular ecotourism destination. (© CI/...
March 9, 2012
On March 11, 2011, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that obliterated entire towns, claimed thousands of lives and led to a nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan. One year later, CI-Japan’s Yoji Natori reflects on how the country’s people — and environment — are recovering.
