Following the coronavirus pandemic, China has decided to ban the farming of 64 animal species on its territory, thus reducing the risk of other diseases being transmitted from animals to humans.
For the first time in 50 years, 27 swift foxes return to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. This return marks the restoration of a missing piece of the Great Plains ecosystem and of the tribes’ natural heritage.
Following a report that clearly states that plastic pollution is harmful to the environment, the government of Canada has issued a national ban on single-use plastic as soon as 2021 under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
The forests of Khe Nuoc Trong have been upgraded to a Nature Reserve. It is one of the last ecosystems in Vietnam and home to more than 40 endangered species, including one of Earth's rarest mammals: the Asian unicorn.
Actions against climate change are stronger, and the British multinational oil and gas company BP is changing its energy outlook. Indeed, as per their Carbon Brief analysis, the “peak oil” demand they expected in 2035 happened… last year.
