Ibex Earth is a not for profit organisation that aims to promote global conservation and protect threatened habitat and endangered species. This blog is where all of our latest news and information will be made available first.
Here is the first part of 'Green the Film', which follows the journey of an orang-utan in the Indonesian rainforest, which is under severe threat from deforestation. It is a really sad story, but highlights just how humans can impact upon biodiversity.
With the launch of Rainforest Life Funding's coming in September 2011 the Ibex Earth blog will be taking a very foresty theme over the Summer - here's a great video by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) about the work they are involved in in the Philippines. Well worth a watch.
This video may be a little bit old, dating from 2007 we think - but still gives a really good overview about Rainforest Alliance's brilliant work in terms of sustainable agriculture. Any steps in the right direction on this area is fantastic, going to try and find a short video tomorrow on the problems associated with cattle ranches and rainforests - pretty sure that there is a ridiculous fact that for every 10llbs of meat produced 2,000sq feet of rainforest is hacked down. Frightening really.
The Ibex Earth Blogger Site is changing - We will now be using this site as an area where we will be uploading videos and news from our Environmental & Conservation Partners, together with some of the more entertaining environmental videos that promote conservation and the ongoing protection of the planet's biodiversity.
We are all for making environmental issues more interesting and entertaining, which is why we start the first new blog with a clip from the fantastic Conservation International who use Harrison Ford in an interesting way to promote the preservation of the planet's rainforests, which involves chest hair and wax strips...bet he didn't get that on the set of Indiana Jones...
Harrison Ford is one of the more proactive celebrities in terms of raising environmental awareness and if only more would get involved and wax all their chest hair for the cause!
