State of the World’s Mothers
May 12th, 2011 by Racquel Foran in General
This year in developing countries 8.8 million children will die before their fifth birthday and 50 million women will give birth to babies without professional help—343,000 of them will also die. The primary reason for their deaths is because in these poverty-stricken nations there are not enough healthcare workers to...
Tags: healthcare, population, Save the Children
May 12th, 2011 by Racquel Foran in General
According to the United Nations’ recently released 2010 revisions of the World Population Prospects (WPP) report, the global population is growing at a much faster rate t...
March 2nd, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation, Humanitarian
Rural populations in developing countries are rapidly increasing, threatening many of the planet’s highest biodiversity regions, reports a new study by WWF...
Tags: Africa, biodiversity, Conservation, mapping, population, WWF
September 28th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Maryam Fejvai in Endangered Species
Fifteen years after conservation managers made a desperate move to save the Florida panther from extinction, there’s good news. The Florida panther po...
Tags: Conservation, Florida, habitat, panther, population
July 14th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
A recent study shows that populations of large mammals such as zebra, buffalo and lion in the African national parks declined by an average of 59% between 19...
Tags: Africa, African Conservation Foundation, Big Five, Biology Conservation, bushmeat, Guardian, mammal, Masai Mara, national parks, population, Serengeti, South Africa, Wildlife, Zoological Society of London
