"How can I make myself useful for the protection of the biodiversity around me, in a simple, fun and effective way? "How can I encourage citizens to get involved in the study of the evolution of species in France? A new web portal, OPEN, has just been created and developed by the National History Museum.
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French law thus offers a new legal category - "living beings" - without setting up a specific regime - "property regime". This inconsistency leads to the idea that animals are considered both subjects and objects of law. This paradox could
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The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme, meeting in Palembang (Indonesia) from 23 to 28 July, added 24 new sites to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. These special sites, known as "Supporting Sites for Science for Sustainability", are
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Biodiversity is not at its first "plan": there was the national strategy 2011-2020 with its twenty objectives, the environmental conferences of the Dutch years, the law for the recovery of biodiversity of 2016... And in parallel, the process of negotiations and commitments at the international level.
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The king of the African savannah, the tree of life, the pharmacist tree, the magic tree, the millennium baobab tree, is disappearing. Silently and mysteriously. An international team of researchers is making this tragic observation: the oldest baobabs in Africa are dying. We do not know the causes of
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The most important thing that came out of the last G7 summit in Canada was Donald Trump's stunt of slamming the door in the face of his allies. What was less noticed was the disagreement over a subject on which the scientific community
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Here is a novel participatory science experiment between high school students and a CNRS researcher: the creation of a "connected artificial flower" to study the foraging behaviour of bees. Little is known about how bees select flowers and move between them. By
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A groundbreaking study makes for the first time a comprehensive assessment of all life on Earth. There is no shortage of revelations and surprises in this analysis. It reveals that the 7.6 billion humans represent only a tiny fraction (0.01%) of all living things.
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The good news is that fifteen percent of the world's landmass is designated as a protected area, an area where endangered wildlife should be able to live undisturbed. The bad news is that more than one-third of the land officially designated as protected is facing
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Nicolas Hulot, Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Solidarity Transition, has made the recovery of biodiversity a key issue in the Ministry's political action, on a par with the energy transition, and invites citizens, organizations and territories to take up this challenge in order to
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A flutter of butterfly wings could trigger a tornado halfway around the world. Everybody knows this image intended to popularize chaos theory. The discovery just made by researchers at Stanford University is of a similar nature. They have shown that from
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A new April 2018 report by Rainforest Action reveals one of the most serious cases of illegal destruction of tropical forests in Borneo in recent years. Approximately 10,000 hectares of peatland have been illegally destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations,
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The world bestseller by Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso has finally been published in French. L'Intelligence des plantes is a book that stirs. In it, the author multiplies the evidence supporting his sometimes controversial hypothesis: plants are living beings endowed with a certain form of intelligence. If we only discover this truth today,
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How can we observe animal species evolving in the wild without interfering with their lives? Observations are often delicate because they involve an intrusion likely to modify their behaviour or even their environment. A new innovative project, the S.I.E.L. project (Surveillance par Image des Espèces en Liberté), within the framework of the FSDIE (French Development Fund for International Cooperation).
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They do not live in hives and do not produce honey, but they are champions in crop pollination: when spring comes, a few thousand solitary bees bred by a startup in Lot-et-Garonne are sent on a mission to boost orchard yields. Not all the bees disappear
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The National Museum of Natural History and the CNRS are sounding the alarm: less than 60% of tawny sparrows in the last 10 years, a third of the skylarks that have disappeared in 15 years... Birds in the French countryside are victims of a "dizzying" decline, which has intensified even more in the last two years, according to new censuses. "The spring
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From generation to generation, we grow up in a world where nature is more and more degraded. Can this explain a certain insensitivity to the destruction of biodiversity? A group of city and nature stakeholders, led by the association Conseil international biodiversité et immobilier (International Council on Biodiversity and Real Estate)
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According to a recent report, the number of wild animals on Earth has halved over the past 40 years. The sixth mass extinction of species is now underway. Not since the end of the dinosaurs have so many animal species disappeared from the Earth. The causes of this situation are indeed
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What if we went for a walk through marshes, bogs, lagoons, salt marshes and other wetlands that are known to harbour great biological diversity and richness? Their essential role in the proper functioning of ecosystems, and the provision of services they provide such as combating global warming.
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Bees play a major role in food production around the world. Without them, there is no pollination and therefore no fruit or vegetables. The decline of bee populations looks like a great extinction. The causes are being sought, analysed and some of them are known. Phytosanitary products used in agriculture
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