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Saving Turtles From Plastics In Principe, The ‘Galapagos Of Africa’
Conservationists in Sao Tomé & Principe, a biodiverse African island nation are using “GPS in a bottle” to track the plastic pollution that plagues their shores.?Estrela Matilde, out-going executive director of?Funda??o Príncipe?based on the island says that the NGO helped persuade a generation that it is no longer acceptable to consume turtle meat and advocated for the?first marine protected area network in the country, but now turtles face a global threat: plastics.
We don’t know what tomorrow will bring’: How climate change is affecting Fijians’ mental health
Pacific island nations are vulnerable to sea level rise, coastal erosion and cyclones of escalating intensity.Increasing temperatures and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns present additional risks to populations largely reliant on traditional fishing and farming practices for both food sources and trade.?The consequences of climate change also pose significant risks to the mental health and wellbeing of the people living in these countries, as we observed in a?recent study?with rural Fijians.
Why Orkney’s wild seas host advanced energy projects
In a vast, rust-stained hangar on a windswept quayside an hour’s drive from Inverness, sits a piece of state of the art technology. It is covered in barnacles, and smells overpoweringly of fish.?The machine is a tidal turbine, one of four that normally stand on the seabed beneath the frigid waters of the Pentland Firth, the strait that lies between the far north of mainland Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
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