“Figures released by the IUCN African Rhino Specialist Group, the conservation body, indicate that the global rhino population increased to about 27,000 at the end of last year, with southern white rhino numbers increasing for the first time since 2012, from 15,942 at the end of 2021 to 16,803. In 2021, the world’s rhino population was estimated to be 26,272.”
From The Guardian.
“The wild tiger population in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex, near the border with Myanmar, has increased almost fivefold in the last 15 years from about 40 in 2007 to between 179 and 223 last year, according to the kingdom’s Department of National Parks.”
From FRANCE 24.
“Twice a day at milking parlors all over New Zealand, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, sheds are hosed down to wash away cow dung into large manmade ponds.
In an attempt to recycle the water in the lagoons, two local scientists — Keith Cameron and Hong Di — began testing the addition of polyferric sulfate, a chemical that’s been widely used in wastewater treatment to separate liquids from solids. The process worked, but that didn’t prove to be their most interesting finding.
When the pair of soil and physical sciences professors at Lincoln University ran checks to monitor for any impact on greenhouse gas emissions, they made a startling observation: Methane emissions from the wastewater had decreased by more than 90%.”
From Bloomberg.
“Once hunted to local extinction in southern Finland, Wolverine has been observed returning to its historical range.
The exciting news was revealed by a study published in Ecology and Evolution in which scientists from Aalto University used satellite imagery and field data to document the elusive mammal’s gradual reappearance.
Classified as Endangered in Finland since the 1980s, Wolverine was last seen in the south of the country in the 19th century.”
From BirdGuides.
“An industrial park alongside the River Lea in the London suburb of Chingford might not be the most obvious place for a quiet revolution to be taking place. But there, a team of entrepreneurs is tinkering with a modest looking steel container that could hold a solution to one of the world’s dirtiest industries.
Inside it are thousands of cherry-sized pellets made from quicklime. At one end, a diesel generator pipes fumes through the lime, which soaks up the carbon, triggering a chemical reaction that transforms it into limestone.
With this invention, Seabound, the company behind it, hopes to capture large amounts of carbon directly from the decks of cargo ships..
a Seabound unit can capture 78% of all the carbon from the exhaust that is pumped through it, and 90% of the sulphur, a toxic air pollutant.
The latest prototype is being built to the dimensions of a standard 20ft (5.9 metre) shipping container, so that it can seamlessly slot in with cargoes on deck.”
From The Guardian.
