Do cities with growing populations have bigger parks? Not
necessarily. While many things like crime, output in patents or its road
network grows as population increases, the amount of green space really depends
upon the choices made in different cities.
Friday, June 7, 2013
The City Life of Birds
City life can be hard for birds to cope with. A new study
found that the light and sound of urban areas has “a profound effect on the internal
clocks” of birds, waking up earlier and resting later than their forest
counterpart. Their pattern of activity/rest was also a lot more scattered. This
makes having large green space such as Kowloon Park as biodiversity refuges the
more important in a 24-hour city like Hong Kong. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/06/city-living-changes-biological-clocks-birds-study-shows/5813/
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
UN recommendation for post-2015 development agenda
Last week, a UN panel has released its much-anticipated
recommendations for a post-2015 Agenda to replace the Millennium Development
Goals, which has driven the global development actions in the past 12 years. The
recommendations include the outright end to poverty, food, water and energy
security, good governance and catalyzing long term finance. On the goal for conserving
the world’s natural assets, gone are targets to stem biodiversity loss, and in
is a fresh focus on forests ecosystems.
http://www.un.org/sg/management/pdf/HLP_P2015_Report.pdfAfrican warlord orders poaching for ivory
"The high price of ivory
is increasingly incentivising the involvement of armed groups such as the [Lord’s
Resistance Army], sustaining their atrocities in the region." The
new report from the Enough Project estimates that elephant population in
Garamba national park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been decimated
from around 20,000 in the 1970s to around 1,800 today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/04/lords-resistance-army-funded-elephant-poaching
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