If deforestation continues at current rates, some conservationists predict that the Ecuadorian Amazon will be completely deforested within 30 years.
After I returned from Churchill I started talking with biologists in Fairbanks, Alaska and with Robert Thompson, an Inupiat hunter, conservationist and current board chair of REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands).
In pointing up the folly of such a project, and possibly managing more ambitious conservationist expectations, the current Lord Onslow surely does the National Trust a favour.
To judge from current political trends, Brazil's conservationists should be prepared for a bitter battle.
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The votes represented a turnabout in the fortunes of conservationists at the current meeting of Cites in Doha, Qatar, where delegates last week defeated American-supported plans to ban international trade in bluefin tuna and to protect polar bears.
While the lawmakers say the current provision is too strict, conservationists argue that when farmers ask for billions of dollars in subsidies taxpayers have the right to demand that wetlands be preserved.
Conservationists estimate that the current extinction rate is 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than it should be under natural conditions.
Tanzania has become a target for poachers, and conservationists have warned that the current rate at which elephants are being killed for their ivory the entire population could die out by the end of the decade.
And, like many conservationists, he lays the blame for the current poaching crisis squarely at the door of China and its ivory market.
