An Associate Laureate of the 2004 Rolex Awards, Jo Thompson was selected for her pioneering efforts to save the bonobo, an endangered ape that dwells only in the Congo Basin region of Africa. During the Congo's war years (1998-2002), Thompson's wildlife project maintainted an active presence within the country.

Throughout the Pacific regions of Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia, sea turtles are recognised as culturally significant species. The specifics of human-sea turtle interactions in these regions, however, are not well known, in part because ethnographic and historic reports documenting these interactions are scattered, requiring extensive archival research.

On a global scale, the existing Sacred Groves (SGs) follow ancestral worship on conservation in forest patches. SGs are distributed over a wide ecosystem and help in conservation of rare and endemic species. Well preserved SGs are store houses of biological, ecological, medicinal, ethno-cultural and religious values.

The main emphasis of ancient Indian concepts is on the inherent balance of nature. The five primary elements namely earth, water, fire, air and space together with flora and fauna form a network of interrelations which ultimately culminates in giving rise to a grand harmony among everything. The Mahabharata says that the coexistence of wild beasts and the forests is necessary for the welfare of both.

The traditional Vietnamese system of social and community organization,
called van chai, can be the basis of a viable fisheries management system.

Pollution from carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulphate and suspended particulate matter due to ignition of fireworks during the festival of Diwali is well established. Although surface ozone exhibits high natural variability throughout the year, any short term enhancement in ozone levels coupled with high level of pollutants during Diwali might prove to be deadly for a large number of elderly people and children with heart and respiratory ailments. Despite this fact, very little study on surface ozone pollution during the festival of Diwali has been reported from India so far.

The Gonds, like all aboriginal people, are animistic, for whom nature, from where they derive all their sustenance, is everything, hence a power to pray to and also appease.