Archivo etiqueta «Ecología»
Par Jean-François Staszak, professeur de géographie à l’Université de Genève (LE TEMPS, 10/02/10):
L’initiative à propos de l’instauration d’avocats en faveur des animaux atteste, quel que soit le sort des urnes le 7 mars, d’un changement dans notre rapport aux animaux. Ceux-ci occupent dans nos cœurs et nos paysages des places changeantes. On a tendance à oublier que notre relation à l’animal est de nature sociale et mouvante; on tend également à perdre de vue qu’au sein de celle-ci, l’animal n’est pas qu’un objet (d’amour ou de haine): il est aussi un sujet.
La place matérielle et symbolique de l’ours… Seguir leyendo
Par Jean Romain, philosophe et écrivain (LE TEMPS, 03/02/10):
La proposition d’un avocat pour animaux, soumis au vote le 7 mars prochain, oblige à réflexion. On veut à juste titre défendre les animaux contre les mauvais traitements que les hommes leur font subir. Défendre les bêtes parce que l’homme a des devoirs est une chose, proposer une charte des droits de l’animal ou un avocat pour animaux en est une autre. Notre démocratie a donné naissance à un type de critique qui redonne sa place à l’animal ainsi qu’à la nature: l’écologisme. Mais il n’existe pas un seul écologisme, il… Seguir leyendo
Por Amadeu Obach Vidal, veterinario clínico (LA VANGUARDIA, 31/01/10):
Los animales de compañía han convivido con el hombre desde siempre. Hace unos 12.000 años que el hombre domesticó al perro y más de mil que los chinos seleccionaron al pez rojo y utilizaban a los ratones como mascotas.
En casi todas las sociedades los animales de compañía son un fenómeno social muy antiguo. Su papel ha ido cambiando a un ritmo que varía según sus niveles de desarrollo, pero todas tienen un patrón similar: cuanto más industrializada está, mayor es el número de familias con animales. El porcentaje de familias… Seguir leyendo
By Alan Rabinowitz, the president and chief executive of Panthera, a wild cat conservation group, and the author of Jaguar: One Man’s Struggle to Establish the World’s First Jaguar Preserve (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/01/10):
Earlier this month, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would designate “critical habitat” for the endangered jaguar in the United States and take the first steps toward mandating a jaguar recovery plan. This is a policy reversal and, on the surface, it may appear to be a victory for the conservation community and for jaguars, the largest wild cats in the Western… Seguir leyendo
By Betsy karasik, an artist and writer living in Washington (THE WASHINGTON POST, 27/12/09):
Many years ago, at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, I had my first and only encounter with a live Mexican gray wolf. It was one of the most exquisite animals I had ever seen. Mexican gray wolves are the smallest wolf species in North America, weighing between 60 and 90 pounds. They have a dainty physique, a luxuriant coat and a thick ruff. I remember watching the lone wolf, bored and lethargic, and reading with poignant regret the plaque informing visitors that these wolves were extinct in… Seguir leyendo
Par Pierre Rosanvallon, historien et professeur au Collège de France (LE MONDE, 07/12/09):
Les régimes démocratiques ont du mal à intégrer le souci du long terme dans leur fonctionnement. La difficulté devient préoccupante à l’heure où les questions de l’environnement et du climat obligent à penser dans des termes inédits nos obligations vis-à-vis des générations futures.
Cette difficulté n’a rien d’inédit. Ainsi, dès les débuts de la Révolution française, Condorcet attirait l’attention sur les dangers de ce qu’il appelait une “démocratie immédiate”. Le philosophe redoutait en particulier que la gestion des finances publiques soit dominée par les errements d’une action… Seguir leyendo
By John Sauven, director of Greenpeace (THE GUARDIAN, 14/11/09):
My colleagues in the Amazon office of Greenpeace like to characterise deforestation as a lion, oscillating between periods of slumber and bouts of frenetic and violent activity. New figures released by Brazil’s government yesterday suggest that over the past year the lion has slept a little more soundly than usual. This is very good news, but we must not take our eyes off him.
The reported fall in the rate of Amazon deforestation should be kept in perspective. Over the past year “just” 7,000 square kilometres of rainforest was destroyed –… Seguir leyendo
By John Frederick Walker, the author of Ivory’s Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants (THE WASHINGTON POST, 17/10/09):
Ivory poaching is back, big time, and the Internet is awash with photos of bloodied tusks and elephant carcasses.
In 2007, Kenyan wildlife officials counted 47 elephants killed by poachers. In 2008, the number jumped to 98. Estimates of the number of elephants now being poached across the African continent range as high as 37,000 a year. All this despite a ban on international trade in ivory that was enacted 20 years ago today.
Why hasn’t the… Seguir leyendo
By Dereck Joubert and Beverly Joubert, his wife. Both are National Geographic explorers in residence. They have spent years making films and writing about the big cats of Africa. To view some of their photos and films, visit http://www.wildlifeconservationfilms.com. For more information, visit http://www.nationalgeographic.com/bigcats (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/10/09):
Just 50 years ago there were close to a half-million lions in Africa — about 450,000 in all. Today there are between 16,000 and 23,000. And yet, unlike elephants (a far more numerous species), lions have no protection under the international accord governing such matters.
Big cats are in trouble everywhere. The… Seguir leyendo
Por Michel Wieviorka, profesor de la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales de París (LA VANGUARDIA, 28/09/09):
Antes de ser una fuerza propiamente política, la ecología constituyó, en numerosas sociedades, una utopía, un conjunto de prácticas contraculturales y, a veces, un movimiento contestatario.
En el arranque de los movimientos a menudo identificados con el año 1968, la ecología estuvo efectivamente animada al principio por ideas y conductas que los actores hacían oscilar entre dos actitudes principales. Unos se giraban hacia el futuro buscando dibujar modelos distintos de sociedad, proponiendo imaginar un mundo, un planeta, totalmente distinto, interesándose por otras… Seguir leyendo
By Tony Juniper, a special adviser with the Prince’s Rainforests Project. To show support for the rainforests go to www.rainforestsos.org (THE TIMES, 09/09/09):
As the world commemorated the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, conservation biologists were scouring a dense area of rainforests in a mountainous part of eastern Papua province on the west side of New Guinea in Indonesia. They made discoveries that reminded us of the somewhat incomplete knowledge we have of the Earth. Their findings generated many headlines this week, with top billing given to the discovery of a new species of giant rat.… Seguir leyendo
Por Mario Sáenz de Buruaga, biólogo y director de Consultora de Recursos Naturales (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 03/09/09):
No hay en nuestras latitudes europeas una especie de la fauna que protagonice más debates y que esté sometida a un escenario social más complejo que el lobo. A su vez no hay otro animal del que se hable con más inercia y del que se hagan más afirmaciones falsas, con malicia o con ignorancia, que del lobo. La baraja lobuna está ya más que manoseada y lo exigible es no hacer trampas en la partida. Repartamos naipes.
1. El lobo es un… Seguir leyendo
By Charles Clover, a frequent contributor to BBC TV, Sky and BBC Radio news and the co-author, with the Prince of Wales, of Highgrove: Portrait of an Estate (THE TIMES, 19/07/09):
Some of the best political decisions happen for the worst reasons. No clearer case can be found than the announcement by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France that he will support a ban on the international trade in bluefin tuna, a fish as endangered as the giant panda but far more palatable. The bluefin has been over-fished to near extinction within the borders of the European Union under the indifferent… Seguir leyendo
Par Claude Allegre, ancien Minister of Education of France (LIBERATION, 17/07/09):
Présentant la fondation que je suis entrain de créer avec pour titre Ecologie productive, un journaliste s’est interrogé. Qu’est ce que l’écologie non-productive ? Il m’incombait donc d’éclairer sa lanterne.
L’écologie productive est la démarche qui consiste à résoudre les problèmes écologiques en créant de nouveaux emplois et de nouvelles richesses. C’est ce que l’on appelle parfois la croissance verte, concept que j’ai contribué à définir et à développer depuis vingt ans (dans mes livres Economiser la planète, Fayard, 1990 et Ecologie des villes, écologie des champs, Fayard, 1993).… Seguir leyendo
By Kathleen Parker (THE WASHINGTON POST, 15/04/09):
It isn’t every day that one’s very own hakapik arrives in the mail.
It is probably reasonable to assume that I’m the only person on my block to be the un-proud possessor of the aptly named bludgeoning and hacking instrument used to slaughter baby seals. ‘Tis the season.
April 15 may be tax and tea-party day in the U.S., but it’s baby-seal death day in Canada. Although the season began March 23 (19,411 down), the largest phase was to begin Wednesday, during which sealers will destroy and skin another couple hundred thousand seals,… Seguir leyendo