Lynn Johnson, Author at Nature Needs More

The Sustainability Game: Creatives, Keep The Blood Off Your Hands

By Lynn Johnson|2022-04-11T08:48:09+10:00April 10th, 2022|The Fly|

The Sustainability Game: Creatives, Keep The Blood Off Your Hands Because, if you are helping to sell it, then you are helping to kill and exploit it. Lynn Johnson 10 April, 2022 That much business behaviour today is neither ethical nor sustainable in any industry is hardly news to observers of corporate conduct. Faced with a situation where we are already exceeding planetary boundaries, any push for ‘more’ (growth, consumption, sales, profit) has to be considered not just unethical and unsustainable, but suicidal. And yet, everlasting economic growth remains official government policy everywhere and is the default premise of any business operating under capitalism. Given the profit and growth driven ideology [...]

Broken Systems – A Corporate Criminal Justice System Has Never Existed

By Lynn Johnson|2022-05-08T10:20:36+10:00March 21st, 2022|The Fly|

Broken Systems A Corporate Criminal Justice System Has Never Existed Lynn Johnson 21 March, 2022 Over recent years there has been an ever-growing dialog about how to deal with the transnational, organised crime associated with the trade in endangered species and environmental goods. As the legal and illegal trade in endangered and exotic species are so intertwined that they are functionally inseparable, some time ago I found myself exploring why so few inroads have been made in dealing with this transnational organised crime. One question I started considering more-and-more was, could the reality be that there is just too big an overlap between transnational organised crime and white-collar/corporate crime for [...]

Garbage In – Garbage Out: But The New CITES Wildlife TradeView Website Isn’t Totally Useless.

By Lynn Johnson|2022-10-08T20:03:06+11:00March 15th, 2022|Blog|

If you have been following the recent CITES Standing Committee meeting (held in Lyon, France. 07 - 11 March 2022) you may have noticed the launch of a new website, CITES Wildlife TradeView. Anyone who has tried to penetrate the CITES trade database, who doesn’t use the system regularly as a part of their research or job, will know that it isn’t the most transparent trade data source to navigate around. In 2019, Nature Needs More even asked a group of trade analytics experts to navigate the CITES trade database. So what was their feedback? - That the CITES trade database was the worst designed and most impenetrable trade data source they have ever come across. The new [...]

Run For Their Lives

By Lynn Johnson|2022-03-12T11:36:40+11:00March 12th, 2022|WGFW|

Run For Their Lives Don't just run for your life, run for their lives too! Too often we read that yet another bird or animal is now threatened with extinction. This can cause a feeling of futility, but if you are a runner (or do any other sport for that matter) you CAN do something. All you need to do is give a day of your running schedule to wildlife. Every day, around the world people are literally on the run. They run around parks, in clubs, corporate groups, in fun runs, marathons and more. Now, World Games For Wildlife is putting out a call to ask people to run to help save endangered species. [...]

Birthday Party Games For Wildlife

By Lynn Johnson|2022-02-11T07:40:31+11:00February 7th, 2022|WGFW|

Birthday Party Games For Wildlife #Mybirthdaywishforwildlife While you may not be the sporty type, why not consider asking your family and friends to donate to World Games For Wildlife for your birthday? Currently, only 3% of non-government donations go to the environment & animals, and only a small amount of this goes to conserving wild animals and their habitat. World Games For Wildlife has been created because we need more people to help change this. So this year, why don’t you ask people to donate to the World Games For Wildlife instead of buying you a present? Over-consumption is the biggest driver of the extinction crisis. So wouldn’t it be fantastic to celebrate your [...]

The Right To Destroy – Needs To Be Stopped

By Lynn Johnson|2022-02-06T14:11:56+11:00February 6th, 2022|Blog|

The scale of biodiversity loss over recent decades is a stark warning that, worldwide, we must deal with the Right to Destroy, a ‘right’ which is implicit in private property law. In pretty much all legal systems today it is implicitly assumed that you have the right to ‘destroy’ (in both the sense of consume or demolish) anything that you own. In most jurisdictions you are free to demolish your house if you wish (but not to build a new one), even though that destroys capital and a public good (housing). The underlying assumption is that you won’t do this because it’s ‘irrational’ to do so. Our legal systems extend this right to nature with very [...]

Is The Wildlife Trade Helping The Poor Or The Rich?

By Lynn Johnson|2022-01-13T07:09:07+11:00January 12th, 2022|Blog|

Much has been made about the trade in endangered species supporting the livelihoods of poor communities living adjacent to key wildlife populations. Poverty alleviation is used by many players, who are committed to maintaining the legal trade, as the primary reason to justify their stance. But is this just another example of perception management? Who really benefits from the trade that is driving the extinction crisis? Research, published in 2021, to clarify just who the biggest exporters and importers of wild species are, demonstrated that some of the richest countries in the world are the key benefactors of this trade, not developing nations. The research split the trade into a number of categories: [...]

Dust Off The Home Gym Equipment For The Home Gym Wildlife Challenge

By Lynn Johnson|2022-01-17T08:14:49+11:00January 5th, 2022|WGFW|

Dust Off The Home Gym Equipment For The Home Gym Wildlife Challenge Getting personally active to help tackle biodiversity loss is a great New Year resolution! One of the big-ticket items to get people through the pandemic has been home fitness equipment. There has been no shortage of articles about how to create the ultimate home gym or guides to the best fitness equipment. A constant stream of celebrities have shared their home-based workouts and wellness routines. So, it is no surprise that the global home fitness equipment market has grown by 17.6% this last year, from $8.42 billion in 2020 to $9.9 billion in 2021. The growth is mainly due to the COVID-19 outbreak that has [...]

Our Dopamine Addiction Is Killing The Planet. How Can We Detox?

By Lynn Johnson|2022-01-09T15:10:54+11:00January 5th, 2022|The Fly|

Our Dopamine Addiction Is Killing The Planet. How Can We Detox? Lynn Johnson 5 January, 2022 Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that sends signals from one neuron to another. Whatever your drug of choice, chocolate, nicotine, amphetamines, social media, power or shopping, dopamine is the final common pathway for all pleasurable, intoxicating and rewarding experiences. It is believed to be the most important neurotransmitter when it comes to the experience of pleasure, motivation and reward. But it isn’t ‘pleasure’ all the way because the same areas of the brain that process pleasure also process pain, and pleasure-pain work like a balance. When that pleasure-pain balance tilts to the side of pain after the [...]

COVID-19 Is Player Of The Year For Two Years Running

By Lynn Johnson|2022-01-09T07:18:14+11:00December 30th, 2021|WGFW|

COVID-19 Is Player Of The Year, For Two Years Running Matches cancelled or postponed, players and teams in quarantine and the drama of the unvaccinated, coronavirus continues to challenge the sports world. As we enter the third year of the pandemic, sadly COVID-19 continues its reign as player of the year. After the initial cancellations, sport returned but was played in mostly empty stadiums, including the delayed Olympic Games. These were the visible signs of change. What we didn’t see was the players and athletes separated from their families, kept in a bubble to ensure they could participate ‘if’ the match or fixture went ahead. The sports ecosystem, including the fans, players, employees, media partners and sponsors are [...]

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