"What a Ferrari is to a man, antlers are to a deer," says Gerhard Haszprunar, biologist and director of the Zoological State Collection for 27 years. Now he is retiring. source site
Two billion people worldwide do not have access to clean water. The reasons for this are population growth, pollution from industry and agriculture - and increasingly climate change. A United Nations conference is currently dealing with the dwindling resource of water. UN Secretary-General Guterres warns that "vampiric overconsumption and climate change" will deprive humanity of "the elixir of life".The drought is particularly bad in East Africa. A region where more than 33 million people do not have enough to drink,...
Status: 03/21/2023 5:50 p.m Devastated national parks, heavy metals from munitions in the soil, pollutants in the water - Russia's invasion is also destroying the ecological balance in Ukraine. By Andrea Beer and Maria Kalus, ARD Studio Kiev So far it has been spared from the war: the oldest oak tree in the Svyati Hory National Park in the Donetsk region. It is around 650 years old, almost thirty meters high, six meters in circumference and stands in a mined...
When Tokyo arborist Hiroyuki Wada ponders the future of cherry blossoms in Japan, one variety in particular comes to mind: Jindai Akebono. "This is a new cherry from Tokyo," says Wada. It has what it takes to one day supersede the generation of ancient Somei Yoshino trees that make up most of the avenues of cherry blossoms, Japanese sakura, make out in the island nation. Jindai Akebono grows vigorously, flowers earlier, has the trendy soft pink color and is not...
From Thomas Hahn, GimpoBarbed wire fences begin soon after Seoul, and Bernhard Seliger knows why. "Because of the spies from North Korea," says the representative of the German Hanns Seidel Foundation in Korea, as he steers the car north on the freeway deeper into the outskirts of the South Korean capital. Behind the thorny rolls of the fence, the Hangang glistens on the right in the February sun, on the other bank of the wide river you can see the...
So far, 2973 species from 14 particularly relevant groups have been re-evaluated for the Red Lists. According to the current situation report, 6.5 percent are already extinct in Bavaria, 36.7 percent are endangered or threatened with extinction and another 7.6 percent are so rare that they have an increased risk of extinction. According to the report, there is a proportion of 45 percent of species with an endangered status across all species, but some significantly older data are included here.According...
Pasing's citizens are concerned about the climate - and not just since the issue has become more and more important to urban society. Tree felling has always been the focus of criticism in the garden-rich district, but the residents of the district are now also concerned with a future that is as sustainable as possible. How important this aspect is to them was shown on Wednesday evening at the citizens' meeting in the Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium: A clear focus of the 25...
"Bares for Rares" "Nature's Most Delicious Secret" is worth 16 times the asking price Wendela Horz is very enthusiastic about the brooch, which she is supposed to appreciate at "Bares for Rares". © ZDF Expert Wendela Horz can hardly contain her enthusiasm for the brooch. After all, it adorns an extremely rare berry. Things are also going extremely well for the saleswoman in the dealer room - who would have been satisfied with just 50 euros. "I'm not the brooch...
In some countries of the Global South, rivers, forests and lakes can also sue in court. The Hamburg law professor Ralf Michaels explains what this means for the protection of nature - and whether the model is also conceivable in Germany. Located on Spain's Mediterranean coast, the Mar Menor Lagoon has recently acquired legal personality. In some South American countries, the so-called law of nature is even enshrined in the constitution. What does that mean?For a long time we saw...
First of all, it's a steep climb. Not a bit, cozy, on a comfortable path, gravelled and tidy. No. A slope loosely covered with tall spruces and a few beeches, cones and brushwood on the ground, with a gradient that would knock many a novice skier out of their boots. That's the first real hurdle. But none of the women who have gathered at Baumhau on the edge of the forest complains when the Niederseeon district forester Kirsten Joas announces:...
