There is nothing better than a vacation in a hot and sunny climate over summer, especially one which involves the beach and tanning lotion. However, this idyllic scene can become painfully interrupted by a sharp sting from an elusive marine culprit!
Monday, May 13, 2013 at 10:58AM | tagged jellyfish, malta, marine research, nature, news, science | in Science Club 
Last week at the World Conservation Congress, the ICUN passed two motions it hopes will benefit wild elephants. This move comes after poaching of African elephants has drastically increased. The elephants are killed for the ivory even though the trade of ivory was banned in 1989. From 1950 to 1985, ivory exports increased from 200 to 1,000 tonnes per year.
Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 5:36PM | tagged Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, ICUN, World Conservation Congress, africa, cites, elephants, ivory, news, poaching, science, updates | in Science Club 
A new species of monkey has been discovered in a rainforest in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many of their rainforests remain mainly unexplored and it has been suggested that there are still many species waiting to be named. This current new discovery is known as the Lesula or Cercopithecus Lomamiensis.
Friday, September 14, 2012 at 4:10PM | tagged Cercopithecus Lomamiensis, Democratic Republic of Congo, John Hart, Lesula, new species, news, science | in Science Club 
A new report, ‘Spineless’, by the Zoological Society of London and IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) has found that one fifth of invertebrates are at risk of extinction. The report looked at 12,621 that are known and threatened to find these statistics. These make up the IUCN’s Red List of threatened species. The threat to the invertebrates is similar to that of other endangered creatures but the smaller less noticed often receive less consideration.
Thursday, September 6, 2012 at 4:40PM | tagged IUCN, conservation, endangered, invertebrates, news, science, spineless | in Science Club Among today’s contending conservation and development strategies, Ecotourism is one of the most popular. It seeks to curb the often harmful effects of large-scale, conventional tourism on local communities and ecosystems. But more than that, it holds the promise of overcoming a number of today’s biggest environmental and social challenges.
Monday, August 20, 2012 at 1:21PM | tagged Costa Rica, Nahla Mahmoud, SEE conservation, Science Club, development, ecotourism, frontier, news, project updates, sustainable development | in Science Club 
