deforestation
Exploring the shift from whale oil to palm oil and its impacts on orangutans
November 9, 2023By: Andreea Barbu, SFU Student On October 23, Akamine Jun, a professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, presented findings from his research at a lecture in the SFU David Lam Centre. His research interests focus on maritime Asian studies and ethnography of food. Professor Jun’s presentation aimed to show how the end of whaling for whale oil in the 1960s indirectly resulted in the death of orangutans. Jun began by recalling a visit he took to the Singapore Zoo many years ago, which had over 40 orangutans at that time. Singapore is located between…
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MP Patrick Weiler proposes M-83 to end old-growth logging
June 2, 2023By: Isabella Urbani, Staff Writer On May 3, Liberal MP Patrick Weiler initiated a private member’s motion, or M-83, to make forestry more sustainable in BC. The motion calls for three demands: the end of old-growth logging on federal lands,…
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Environmental impacts — in the past and now
July 2, 2018Written by: Trevor Steele, Peak Associate Agriculture’s impact on earth’s environment UBC researchers, in collaboration with researchers from a number of universities including SFU, have revealed the significance of agriculture's effect on Earth’s environment in a new study published in…
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Humans are wiping out the caribou, not wolves
March 1, 2015[caption id="attachment_730" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons[/caption] A five-year wolf cull is currently taking place in British Columbia, with approximately 180 wolves being shot from helicopters this year alone. The BC government is arguing that this is a…
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