Extinction

Letters to the Editor, January 8, 2013

8 Jan 2013

Drying fins is sensible use of available space

I do not accept the claim that rooftop drying of shark fins or any other animal or plant product is a “dirty trade” (“Shark fin blanketing...

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Breeding of endangered species is futile without habitat protection

23 Dec 2012

This past summer, a team of biologists scoured Siberian tundra in search of nests and eggs of one of the world's most threatened species, the spoon-billed sandpiper - a small shorebird known to...

Biodiversity aid to double by 2015

21 Oct 2012

Efforts to reverse the worrying loss of dwindling natural resources received a substantial boost yesterday when a UN conference in India agreed to double biodiversity aid to poor countries.

The Fate of the Species

13 May 2012

The Fate of the Species
by Fred Guterl
Bloomsbury

The world can comfortably hold two billion people but we now have seven billion. So, the planet is already grotesquely...

Ice-age baby goes on display in modern-day mall

14 Apr 2012

The world's most well-preserved baby woolly mammoth made her debut at IFC Mall this week.

The month-old calf named Lyuba, which means love in Russian, drowned in a muddy river in...

Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

Alice Wu

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Extinction rate theory creates ecological stir

A projected rate of extinctions of animals and plants this century may be less dramatic than feared because the most widely used scientific method could have exaggerated this by as much as 160 per...

Macaw learns to take to the sky

The 3-D animated comedy adventure, Rio, marks Brazilian director Carlos Saldanha's love affair with his home city, Rio de Janeiro. He came up with the idea for Rio while working on Ice Age 3,...

Letters

Incendiary rhetoric is not the answer

In his article, Lau Nai-keung equates recent actions by anti-government forces with 'revolutionary' activity ('Protesters play with fire by...

Illegal logging in protected forest

Parts of natural forests in Sichuan, which are under the government's preservation programme, have been felled illegally, an environmental protection organisation said.

Bid for luxury project on Lamma revived

The controversial 'Baroque on Lamma' development has been resurrected - to the anger of many island residents and green groups.

The luxury residential and marine project - situated...

Letters

Red herrings introduced into fin debate