According to the Rainforest Action Network, however, the injured ecosystem and human communities have not recovered and the spill continues to be the most damaging oil spill in history.
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm is the Executive Director of WITNESS. She envisions a world where the millions of people turning to video today become human rights defenders and where collaboration between media, technology and human rights creates an ecosystem for social change.
Well, if--as with a real highway--it destroys something irreplaceable, a vital ecosystem essential to human life.
Despite threats to the ecosystem caused by drought and human activities, it is home to a remarkable variety of flora and fauna.
Working at the interface of science and environmental policy she will bring together long term data sets on biodiversity, the environment and human impacts to explore spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem functioning and help identify where conservation attention needs to focus in the future.
Even seemingly innocuous human actions can have devastating repercussions for the marine ecosystem.
As well as destabilizing human communities, logging also threatens to decimate an ecosystem that is critical for the survival of wildlife including forest elephants and endangered apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.
The team explained that while the 13 in the initial product were thoroughly reviewed for toxicology to ensure that the finished product was safe for human use, the GAIA tool focuses on reducing ecosystem impacts.
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The Nature article, also published Thursday, said that such shifts in weather patterns and human-induced changes could have sudden and unpredictable effects on the global ecosystem, including the collapse of food supplies and other problems.
Biodiversity itself is crucial to human life and to the reduction of poverty, in view of the basic goods and ecosystem services it provides.
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