- Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Conserving soil: precious, finite and under threat
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Human existence relies on healthy soils. But all over the world soils are being lost and degraded by inappropriate land use, reducing their capacity to produce food and store water, nutrients and carbon. Sustainable land management must be incentivised to conserve this essential resource.
- The fruits of protest
Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
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