Dedicated to the goal of preserving the open road for future generations of riders, Harley-Davidson is mobilizing its riders worldwide to help plant 50 million trees by 2025. The initiative, called Renew the Ride and announced last week, is the latest global mission and call to action for Harley riders.
Felix Finkbeiner is an environmental superstar and author of the book Tree by Tree who is at the helm of a global network of child activists whose aim is to mitigate climate change by reforesting the planet.
London is using its plans for the 2012 Olympic games to revitalize neighborhoods, clean up a polluted industrial site and generate a large urban park with wetlands that will attract birds, otters and other wildlife, while leaving a legacy of sustainability for East Londoners.
Having dropped a policy allowing state-owned English woodland to be sold to the private sector, the government is now committing instead to preserving it for future generations. Environment secretary Owen Paterson announced in January 2013 that a previous policy of selling off 15% of the public forest to raise funds was to be dropped and an independent public body created to hold them in trust.
Visit "Tundra Connections" this week to participate in free, live webcasts from the Hudson Bay, featuring leading experts and wild polar bears. Segments will broadcast from onboard a tundra vehicle specially-equipped with high-speed internet, cameras and stabilizers for beaming live clips of polar bears in the wild.
Conservation efforts in Africa have successfully tripled the number of black rhinoceros in African reserves over the past decade. There are currently about 4,700 of the critically endangered rhinos, up from a low of nearly 2,100 in the early 1990s.
The boom of the bittern is being heard across Britain once again, after more than a century in which the bird has hovered on the edge of extinction. Noted for its foghorn-like call or boom, the bittern has made a recovery in numbers that the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds described last week as a phenomenal success.
Conservation efforts in Africa have successfully tripled the number of black rhinoceros in African reserves over the past decade. There are currently about 4,700 of the critically endangered rhinos, up from a low of nearly 2,100 in the early 1990s.
The tiny Maguire daisy, which grows in the desert southwest of the United States, has been plucked from the edge of extinction after a 25-year conservation effort. The number of flowers had dropped to just seven known plants when it was listed as endangered in 1985, but with its population now back up to 163,000 plants in Utah, it will be removed from the endangered species list, the Interior Department said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a longtime defender of large endangered animals announced that Russia has banned the hunting of polar bears this year, even for the indigenous people in far-eastern Russia across the Bering Strait, for whom officials have said hunting is vital.
A new Olympic Park arose in a once derelict and contaminated industrial area of east London turning neglected waterways into wildlife havens. Almost 500 acres of land (200 hectares) have been razed and redeveloped for the 2012 Olympic Games, and 45 of those have been given over to creating new wildlife habitats for kingfishers, bats, otters and snakes -- while much of the rest has been left as parkland.
One of the world's rarest seabirds has returned to remote Ascension Island in the Atlantic 150 years after its colony was wiped out by feral cats. It is the first time the species has bred there since Charles Darwin visited the island in the early 19th century.
In an outcome hailed by environmentalists, European Union lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to overhaul the region's troubled fisheries policy to end decades of overfishing. The European Parliament voted 502-to-137 to impose sustainable quotas by 2015 and end the wasteful practice of discarding unwanted fish at sea.
Efforts to conserve Kenya's dwindling population of rhinos is set to get a significant boost when WWF-Kenya hands over 1,000 microchips and 5 scanners to the Kenya Wildlife Service today. The equipment valued at over KES 1.3 million will be instrumental in strengthening active rhino monitoring. Vital to outsmarting the poachers who are getting more sophisticated in their approach, the deployment of specialized rhino horn tracking systems will allow for 100% traceability of every rhino horn and live animal within Kenya
A five year plan to shore up dwindling populations of eastern Steller sea lions, the threatened species that roams from Alaska to California has succeeded. NOAA Fisheries announced last week it will be delisting the animal as a threatened species, making it the first to achieve recovery since the North Pacific gray whale was taken off NOAA's endangered list in 1994.
Crew members aboard the navy warship USS Rentz recently traded in their anti-organized-crime hats to become wildlife protectors for a few hours, rescuing a group of helpless sea turtles caught in a tangle of netting.
When dozens of white sturgeon began washing up dead on the banks of British Columbia's Fraser River in the mid-1990s, some feared that North America's largest freshwater fish could be headed toward extinction. But now, thanks to an alliance of government agencies, environmentalists, aboriginal groups, and fishing interests, the sturgeon has been spurred to a robust recovery in the lower river.
For the first time in history, a live, stranded beluga whale calf has been found in U.S. waters and rescued. But saving the baby, estimated to be only two or three days old when rescued, is requiring the efforts of marine mammal experts from far and wide. Marine mammal specialists have descended upon the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, to provide round-the-clock care, including feedings via stomach tube, while the baby learns how to suckle from a bottle.
After thousands of Canadian residents joined forces to preserve a forest of 300 year-old red pines from expanded mining, the government scrapped its plans to rescind the reserve status bestowed on 840 acres (340 hectares) of pristine forest.
After thousands of Canadian residents joined forces to preserve a forest of 300 year-old red pines from expanded mining, the government scrapped its plans to rescind the reserve status bestowed on 840 acres (340 hectares) of pristine forest.
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