Biodiversity - Blog Posts
"Majestic creature born at nights, solace of its solitariness and emulating its colours. As dangerous as beautiful, with eyes that shine as the full moon does. Silent in every step and evasive of any glance, a mystery that surprises its prey, either animal or man, to embrace them in red and disappear before the night succumbs to the sun again."
- Old Malaysian saying referring to the encounters of its villagers with the maltese tiger. -
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Babyrousa babyrussa
The skull of the Babirussa along with the important teeth of the lower jaw in order to be compare with its relative found by Clement Van Burden, also in the Jungles of Vietnam. The Sus Cofra Satanae or Satanic Boar as Clement decided to named after studied its destructive behavior.
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Perfect Balance Between Chaos I Before start working on my Great Grand Father’s book I did a series of drawings mixing different animals in an intrinsic way. I started drawing a part of a bird and then I switch to another bird. The composition was done accordingly I was adding birds. I called “The Perfect Balance in Chaos” and depicts the way the nature moves violently but always keeping the perfect balance (That is why I did it in a square shape canvas”.
BHL Book Feature: The Birds of Singapore Island
Our book feature this week is The Birds of Singapore Island (1927), co-authored by John Alexander Strachey Bucknill and Frederick Nutter Chase with SciArt by Gerald Aylmer Levett-Yeats, and published by the Raffles Museum. This work is the first book on the birds of Singapore!
Our featured illustration is a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus platurus). This book is written in an informal, non-scientific style to appeal to tourists and bird enthusiasts, and the description of the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo is a good example of this writing style.
All this week, we will be sharing several of the 31 plates from The Birds of Singapore Island, which was digitized for BHL by National Library Board, Singapore. You can view all of the plates from this work in our Flickr album, and check out our blog post, which was written by Ong Eng Chuan, Senior Librarian of the National Library Board, Singapore.
Cuando de proteger la biodiversidad se trata, cualquier otro valor debe quedar subordinado a los resultados provisionales de la investigación inteligente y cooperativa, a la valoración en caso de conflicto, a la revisión y al consecuente reacomodo del sistema de valores característico de una racionalidad práctica y crítica. Tras el último siglo de serios destrozos en la biosfera, quizá no quepa aspirar a otra cosa que a ser mejores predecesores y evitar que las generaciones futuras nos reprochen que la cortedad de nuestros intereses y de nuestras lealtades haya sido más fuerte que nuestra obligación de cuidar la biodiversidad y procurar su continuidad. Un ambiente con facebook, twitter y skype, pero sin ranas, sin manatíes o sin monos araña es decididamente un ambiente de valor menguante.
Esteban, J. Miguel (2013), Naturaleza y Conducta Humana. Conceptos, valores y prácticas para la educación ambiental. Ed. Palibrio: Bloomington.
That is the course that world leaders set when they met at the United Nations in New York on September 25 to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 goals range from ending poverty and improving health to protecting the planet’s biosphere and providing energy for all. They emerged from the largest summit in the UN’s history, the “Rio+20” conference in 2012, followed by the largest consultation the UN has ever undertaken.
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Unlike their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, which focused almost exclusively on developing countries, the new global goals are universal and apply to all countries equally. Their adoption indicates widespread acceptance of the fact that all countries share responsibility for the long-term stability of Earth’s natural cycles, on which the planet’s ability to support us depends.
Johan Rockstrom goes all in on poverty reduction and climate change.