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Take a look at Panorama: The Green Energy Scandal Exposed
The programme's website says that Drax power station in Yorkshire provides 12% of the renewable energy in the UK.
It's received £6 billion in green energy subsidies from the government.
Reporter Joe Crowley looks into where the wood comes from.
We need our forests. Wildlife needs the forests.
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It’s International Red Panda Day on Saturday 17th September – are you ready to celebrate red pandas and raise awareness of them?
How much do you know about red pandas?
Here are 15 Fantastic Facts About Red Pandas from the Red Panda Network - for instance, did you know that they glow in the dark?
Threats to the Red Panda
The biggest threat to red pandas is habitat loss and fragmentation. Agriculture and settlement conversions have fragmented forests. These areas have been degraded because of herding and resource harvest. Now there are 400 forest patches – unprotected and isolated. They are reducing the ability of the red pandas to survive
Other threats are livestock herding, free roaming dogs and disease, bamboo lifecycle and world climate change. And wildlife crime is also a worry.
We need to protect red pandas from poachers and restore their forest habitat so that they have everything they need to both survive and thrive!
But the good news...
The Red Panda Network, who celebrate their 15th birthday this year, say there is a LOT to celebrate. For a start, red panda numbers are improving in eastern Napal, a project area, according to population data.
So how can you help the Red Panda Network help red pandas?
Plant a Red Panda Home to reverse the effects of deforestation.
The Red Panda Network is working with local communities to plant trees and to restore and reconnect the habitat of red pandas! This is in Nepal. The aim is to establish a biological corridor, which enables red pandas and other species to survive and which is protected by the community.
This year, over 84,000 trees have een planted, and roughly 10 hectares have been purchased. 54,815 saplings have been planted over 35 hectares!
Since 2019, 336,380 trees have been planted, thus reforesting 461 hectares of red panda habitat in Nepal. The trees are planted and fences installed to protect the saplings. The network buys private lands in key habitat areas - it also helps the local community by giving green jobs to locals.
Not only that, there are now 12 anti-poaching networks in Nepal! In 2021, the teams patrolled for 437 hours. They covered about 197 km in 36 Community forests! That's some going!
Join the Party for Red Pandas!
Ways to help the Red Panda Network:
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Sir David Attenborough is back with a new series, Frozen Planet II. It starts at 8pm on Sunday 11th September 2022 on BBC1.
He starts in Antarctica. Emperor Penguin parents leave their chicks as spring arrives. And to survive, the chicks have to find their own way across dangerous sea ice to the Southern Ocean.
Killer whales and Weddell seals feature in tonight’s programme, the former generating their own waves to wash the seals off their ice floes.
with over 250 stunning photos.
Available from Hive.co.uk
From Antarctica, the series moves on to the Himalaya, home to the Pallas’s cat who has incredibly dense fur (needed for the Mongolian winter). And then North of the Great Steppe is the boreal forest, frozen for six months of the year, home to the majestic Siberian tiger who is on the look-out for black bears in winter, as they hibernate in caves.
The Arctic Circle’s tundra is home to musk ox, whose calves face the danger of hungry grizzly bears in spring.
And north of that lies the Arctic Ocean, where the hooded seal lives. Males can produce a bright red balloon out of their left nostrils to make themselves irresistible
All the areas are threatened by climate change.
We still have time to save these frozen wildernesses. But we need to act
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There’s good news for giraffe in Kenya. The Giraffe Conservation Foundation reports that they have made efforts to make sure that giraffe numbers in Kenya receive better protection. The charity has given financial support to the Kenya Wildlife Service and other conservation partners to undertake aerial surveys in northern Kenya. And good news! The surveys are showing a 30% increase in reticulated giraffe numbers on communal land and private conservancies in the last 6 years. Meantime, in the south of Kenya, the charity has held the first ever Masai Giraffe Working Group meeting to bring conservation partners together with the Kenya Wildlife Service. The aim was to identify current threats to Masai giraffe and pinpoint measures to protect them. And there’s more – the charity’s year long surveys in Mwea National Reserve and Ruma National Park show there are double the numbers of Nubian giraffe than previously thought, so this is a great boost to Nubian giraffe there. There are renewed efforts to update and complete a National Recovery and Action Plan for giraffe in Kenya, held over a two day workshop. The plan will be launched later this year. Don’t forget – a date for your diary – the 21st June is World Giraffe Day. Why not adopt a giraffe as a gift for someone or for yourself?
Click here for wildlife holiday ideas in Kenya listed on Responsible Travel |
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Giraffes are in trouble. The giraffe population is already down between 36 to 40%. For the first time ever, 5 African countries are proposing to add the giraffe to the list of protected species. This would really make a difference. How you can help giraffes with a click There’s a petition calling on CITES to launch and fund an Africa-wide Giraffe Action Plan. The Plan would:
The petition can be found at Avaaz.org. Avaaz.org is a world-wide community with nearly 50 million members. It has petitions you can set up and sign to give your support to proposed changes or messages about causes you care about and want to help Please sign this petition to help giraffes today!When you go through to Avaaz and the petition, there’s a picture of someone called Tess and a dead giraffe, just to warn you. Avaaz say that Tess killed the giraffe for fun. She's certainly got a big smile on her face. There are no words to describe how I feel about people who do this. Very shortly, countries from across the world will meet for a crucial global wildlife summit. Back in January 2019, 57 proposals to amend the list of species subject to CITES regulations were submitted by 90 countries for consideration. This consideration will take place from 23 May to 3 June 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the 18th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. (I can’t help feeling that if they spent less time making up titles like that, and more on protecting wildlife, we might make more progress.) So how could this CITES meeting affect giraffes? For the first time ever, five African countries have proposed adding giraffes to the list of protected species. You can see the species here that the meeting will consider, and find out about the proposal to protect giraffes here Sign the Petition at Avaaz.org now,Then please share the petition widely to help make the senseless killing of this giraffe into a new direction for giraffes. |
