Thursday, March 5, 2015

Infrastructure Boom Threatens World's Last Wildernesses

theguardian

Spread of new roads in developing nations is a greater danger than the dams, mines, oil well or cities they connect, as they open up untouched habitats to poachers, illegal loggers and land speculators, study says. Story here.

No comments:

Oil and gas ambitions outshone caribou protection in Alberta

  Canada’s National Observer Caribou flee for their lives to escape a large, industrial vehicle. A Greenpeace photo. Long-awaited plans to p...