Call for donations for Ukraine As a means to support Ukrainians now fleeing from their war-torn home country, along with several other people from our municipality of Hambühren, Germany, we have arranged for the transportation of medical supplies to the Polish-Ukrainian border as well as for the transportation of refugees to Germany. If you wish …
74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee in full swing Introduction The Standing Committee (SC) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is currently gathering for its 74th meeting ('SC74) in Lyon, France. The committee paves the way for the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP), which …
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This article will be published in the first issue of the forthcoming publication series The Conservation & Livelihoods Digest at the end of March 2022. But due to the actuality of events, this pre-publication is now made available. The article is also available as an automated podcast. Introduction The recent Russian invasion of the Ukraine …
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Am 15.02.2022 fand die Kick-off-Veranstaltung des Projektes "Kommunale Nachhaltigkeit in kleinen und mittleren Kommunen in Niedersachsen" (KommN Niedersachsen) unter der Leitung der Kommunalen UmweltAktioN (UAN) via Zoom statt. Ziel der Veranstaltung war es, die Arbeitsgruppe Nachhaltigkeit (AG Nachhaltigkeit) zu gründen und eine erste Bestandsaufnahme durchzuführen. Die AG Nachhaltigkeit hat nach ihrer Gründung bisher 13 Teilnehmende, …
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Introduction On 4 February 2022, Icelandic Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, of the Left Green Party announced that she would not renew Icelandic quotas for minke whales and fin whales beyond 2024. Along with Norway, Iceland is the only remaining member of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that has been engaging in commercial …
Introduction On 28 January I had the honour of being invited to an online screening of the short movie Nyama. The event was organised by Survival International and was followed by a Q&A session with the directors and the actors. Nyama is somewhat of a teaser of a larger film project called Small Gods, both …
I created a simple map of the international waters in the Arctic. You can download a high-resolution version of the map here. Feel free to use it, but please mention me as the map's creator. A PayPal donation would be much appreciated.
Einleitung Die von den Vereinten Nationen (UN) verabschiedeten 17 Nachhaltigkeitsziele (engl. Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) haben nun auch ihren Weg in die Gemeinde Hambühren in Niedersachsen im Landkreis Celle gefunden. © Nikolas Sellheim, 2022. Die knapp 10.500 Einwohner umfassende Gemeinde hat unter der Leitung von Bürgermeister Carsten Kranz (parteilos) im Sommer 2021 den Entschluss gefasst, …
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I've started clearing out my extensive polar library and have put some of my books out for sale. Head over to the Polar Book Sale page and take a look!
Introduction In my post from 23 December 2021, I presented data that link the current COVID-19 pandemic with pangolins. I wrote that one of the 'candidates' that may served as a host for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to jump from bats to humans may have been Malayian pangolins (Manis javanica) also due to their closer proximity …
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