animals

This dam project alters the Niger delta’s previously dynamic and self-regulating ecosystem.

Following the establishment of the Xapuri Rural Workers’ Union, Brazilian activist Chico Mendes becomes a symbol for peaceful resistance to social injustice and environmental destruction.

Abruzzo National Park opened as Italy’s second national park.

This book is the first to identify the population of each known species in the United States.

The hunt for the great auk leads to the seabird’s extinction.

The London Zoo becomes the world’s first scientific zoological garden.

The Swedish physician and botanist Carl Linnaeus publishes the tenth edition of his book Systema Naturae, which then provides the foundations for modern zoological taxonomy.

The Albert National Park (later renamed Virunga) in the Belgian Congo becomes the first National Park in Africa.

The 1989 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora (CITES) bans the international trade of African elephant ivory.

With the introduction of more powerful firearms, elephant hunting and the trade of ivory increase dramatically in the mid-nineteenth century.