Created
in 2006 by Obvious Corp., Twitter user base has grown a lot since then. There
are millions of users worldwide - in Brazil, for example, it is the second most
popular social network (just behind Orkut). In the last couple of months, Twitter
has appeared on several magazine covers (like Time) and on TV (Oprah's show is
just one of the examples), which only increased its popularity and reach... full
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Iconography
linked to pandas symbolizes all that is wrong in the typical human approach to
nature, in which the animals that interest in preserving are the 'cute', 'huggable'
and charismatic. The species we recognize as worthy of priority attention are
not necessarily those whose extinction would produce a dire unbalance on earth.
We are damning innumerable other species and entire ecosystems simply because
the general public does not gravitate towards them at the zoo. If this continues
at the scale of one hundred and fifty species going extinct per day, this planet
will soon be home for only a few species. To achieve the 2010 target to reduce
biodiversity loss, governments and communities should change and broaden their
conservation programmes. But are they?... full
story
Iconography
linked to pandas symbolizes all that is wrong in the typical human approach to
nature, in which the animals that interest in preserving are the 'cute', 'huggable'
and charismatic. The species we recognize as worthy of priority attention are
not necessarily those whose extinction would produce a dire unbalance on earth.
We are damning innumerable other species and entire ecosystems simply because
the general public does not gravitate towards them at the zoo. If this continues
at the scale of one hundred and fifty species going extinct per day, this planet
will soon be home for only a few species. To achieve the 2010 target to reduce
biodiversity loss, governments and communities should change and broaden their
conservation programmes. But are they?...