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If you choose to follow any links to the abstracts and/or complete text of articles, books, and documents listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. Other Items of Note: Andreas Gigon Opinion: Back From the Brink. (... an interesting perspective about the lack of popular reporting about good news related to conservation efforts. The author states it has always been assumed in conservation that bad news is a more effective means of motivating people to act, but this is dangerously misguided. Being steadily bombarded by stories about environmental failures can lead to hopelessness and resignation. The author goes on to state that successes in the conservation of endangered animal and plant species are more common than people think yet are not widely reported by the popular media [newspapers, magazines, television, etc.]. The author and his colleagues have produced Blue Lists containing endangered species whose numbers and outlook have stabilized and/or improved to be used in conjunction with the Red Lists produced by conservation authorities and the World Conservation Union [IUCN] which were drawn up to cover plant and animal species in decline or threatened with extinction, and those that are already extinct. The author concludes that the Blue Lists show people that efforts in conservation are worthwhile because they do yield positive results. Other keywords and phrases -- bald eagle, brown pelican, goshawks, ibex, Mississippi alligator, relict trillium, sparrowhawks, Switzerland -- from the text of the article) New Scientist Volume 167, Number 2257 (September 23, 2000): see issue. Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Christian Wirth, and Martin Heimann Climate Change: Managing Forests After Kyoto. (... a perspective by some researchers from Germany who conclude that the preservation of old-growth forests may have a larger positive effect on the carbon cycle than promotion of regrowth. Some countries who signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997--an international agreement that set goals on reducing worldwide emissions of various greenhouse gases in order to prevent or temper the potentially negative effects of climate change brought about by global warming--are more interested in planting new forests of young trees than in protecting old-growth forests in order to meet some of the goals imposed by the agreement. The work by these researchers suggests that old-growth forests are much more effective than new plantations of trees in keeping carbon sequestered in tree trunks, branches, and the soil rather than releasing it into the atmosphere where it can exacerbate global warming. Other keywords and phrases -- afforestation, reduce emissions, reforestation, regrowth -- from the text of the abstract; for an overview of this article, see: Andrew C. Revkin Planting New Forests Can't Match Saving Old Ones in Cutting Greenhouse Gases, Study Finds. New York Times [on the Web] (September 22, 2000): National Science/Health Section.) Science Volume 289, Number 5487 (September 22, 2000): 2058-2059. How to find the above journals, magazines, and other publications? See Step 3: Locate of the Information Strategy for details. Questions about any or all of the above? Please let me know. |
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