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Indonesia to issue quota-based fisheries policy in July, sparking concerns
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government will issue a decree that manages the country’s marine fisheries based on capture quotas, but experts have raised concerns that this new approach may threaten the sustainability of the country’s fish stocks. The fisheries ministry said it expects to issue a government regulation on quota-based fisheries management in July, after receiving the green light from the office of President Joko Widodo. In part, the new policy is aimed at boosting state revenue from the fisheries sector. The nationwide decree will come into effect in stages across the various fisheri...
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Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial
Three years ago, Indigenous leader Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed in an alleged ambush by loggers in the Brazilian Amazon. He was a member of the “Guardians of the Forest,” a group of 120 Indigenous Guajajara fighting against illegal logging in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in northeastern Maranhão state, often at great personal risk. Despite an intense national and international outcry demanding justice — and government promises at the time to hold the perpetrators accountable — the killers have to date gone unpunished. The lack of justice in the case appears emblematic of the patte...
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‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping
From tiny, jewel-toned metallic bees to cartoonish and lumbering bumblebees, the United States is home to more than 4,000 native and 55 non-native bee species. Now, scientists have announced a plan to map the genomes of at least 100 of these species, representing each of the major bee taxonomic groups in the U.S. The project “will help researchers answer the big questions like what genetic differences make some bee species more vulnerable to climate change or whether a bee species is likely to be more susceptible to a pesticide,” entomologist Jay Evans with the ARS Bee Research Laboratory in B...
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Andean eagles have managed to adapt to fragmenting habitats — for now
Even the greatest, most mobile predators aren’t immune to the shrinking of South America’s forests. The endangered black-and-chestnut eagle (Spizaetus isidori), one of the largest raptors on the continent, has been forced to change its behavior to survive in increasingly fragmented habitats and growing threats from humans. A new study in Global Ecology and Conservation found that this aerial predator is successfully adapting to shrinking tropical and subtropical forests in the Andean mountains, but may still face serious threat of extinction if forest loss continues. “In order to maintain viab...
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A year before deep-sea mining could begin, calls for a moratorium build
LISBON — Should we mine the seabed, a part of the world rich in resources, but less mapped than the surface of the moon? A growing number of politicians, scientists and conservationists are saying that we shouldn’t — at least, not until we fully understand the consequences of doing so. At an event on June 27 at the U.N. Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Lisbon, Surangel Whipps Jr., the president of the Pacific island nation of Palau, took to the podium to announce that his nation was launching an alliance of countries pushing for a moratorium on deep-sea mining. “Palau believes that in this instance,...
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‘Overwatch 2’ Beta Gets Big Update, Here’s What To Expect
The wildly popularOverwatch is getting a sequel, but you already knew that. Overwatch 2 is currently in its beta stage but new changes are coming often. This week, the beta got a brand new patch update, changing the game entirely. The goal of the beta is to test the cross-play and console features, however, the beta is fine-tuning that experience even further. The new update modifies the Quick Play queue, allowing players to use the competitive ruleset within each map in different game modes. Players are also able to play on both offense and defense using the same competitive rulesets in hybri...
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John Wall To Join Los Angeles Clippers After Clearing Waivers
The rich just got richer in the NBA. It is reported that Houston Rockets guard John Wall will join the Los Angles Clippers after clearing waivers. Earlier this week, Wall decided to opt-in to the final year of his contract which would have netted him $47.4 million. In buyout negotiations, however, Wall elected to take $6.3 million less to become a free agent. The Rockets reportedly wanted to grant Wall an agreement before the start of free agency on Thursday in order to provide him with more flexibility in choosing a new team. Wall was traded to Houston in 2020 with a first-round pick for Russ...
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Mother Kicks Out White Nationalist Son With Gay Dad Over Attempted LGBT Pride Riot In Idaho
Jared Michael Boyce was one of the 31 people arrested earlier this month over an attempt to disrupt a LGBT Pride parade in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The white nationalist group Patriot Front showed up to the celebration in the back of a U-Haul truck with riot gear including shields, masks, smoke grenades and “operation plan” documents. The group was busted after police received a tip reporting the suspicious activity. The group was lead by Patriot Front head Thomas Ryan Rousseau. Boyce’s mother, Karen Amsden, does not approve of her son’s affiliation with the group. So she has kicked him out of th...
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Bamboo mamas and bikes help with Indonesian diplomacy
During the new Australian prime minister’s first state visit to Indonesia in early June, Anthony Albanese spent a morning planting trees and riding a bamboo bicycle with Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Pictures of the two politicians taking a spin around the Bogor Presidential Palace lit up social media. Indonesian environmentalists felt proud of the “bamboo bike diplomacy,” seeing it as presidential seal of approval for the national sustainability movement. Every part of the bamboo bicycles the pair rode was grown in Indonesia. The bikes were manufactured and purchased from an Indonesian ba...
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As Jakarta chokes on toxic air, Indonesian government stalls on taking action
JAKARTA — Jakarta’s recent episode of world-beating air pollution has highlighted what activists describe as belligerent inaction by the Indonesian government to address the source of the problem, even in the face of a ruling by the nation’s top court ordering it to act. On June 20, readings for PM2.5, a class of airborne pollutants so fine that they can be inhaled and cause respiratory disease, reached 136.9 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3) — more than 27 times higher than what the World Health Organization (WHO) considers safe-air-quality-and-health#:~:text=The%20current%20WHO%20guideline%...
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