Afghanistan has published its first list of threatened wildlife that can no longer be hunted or harvested. The list currently includes 20 mammals, 7 birds, and 4 plants, although they hope to expand the list to as many as 70 species by the end of the year.
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Africa's forests are disappearing faster than those in other areas of the world due to a lack of land ownership.
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Yosemite National Park is seeing a decrease in the average size of their largest trees (as a result of larger trees dying), likely as a result of climate change. The dying off of large trees is concerning because it is occurring in one of the world's most protected parks.
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The Natrue Conservancy published reports of its study showing that many reefs all around the world are now functionally extinct due to fishing practices and coastal developments. This is having a hugely negative effect on shellfish populations and damaging entire sensitive ecosystems. As a specific example, it points out that 85% of the world's ocean reefs have already been lost.
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Scientists have been working on producing more flood tolerant varieties of rice in order to lower the loses in rice harvest that occur every year due to flooding conditions.
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The Global Crop Diversity Trust, the group who brought us the Doomsday Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway are in a global hunt of the world’s seedbanks for ‘climate proof’ crop varieties.
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Native Seeds/SEARCH is a seed bank that specializes in creating drought-tolerant seeds from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
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60 Minutes look at the Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault.
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