Books For Teens

Hugh Paxton’s fantasy novels for teens are quirky, well researched and action packed. Jimmy & The Djinn is an exemplar, a fast- paced fantasy action adventure with a lively cast of likeable characters set in a titanic struggle of crusader knights versus Djinni in a forgotten part of London! More … Click To View On Amazon

HUGH’S REVIEWS

Hugh Paxton In The Press

Hugh Paxton’s Non-fiction Writing

• Hugh’s contributed over 6,000 articles, columns and photo essays published in more than 30 magazines and newspapers. • NATURE TRAVEL Read Hugh Paxton’s Travel Writing column in The Japan Times • Hugh’s written and co-written five guidebooks • Hugh’s co-written a university level environmental education textbook and helped translate Japanese white papers on the environment.

IN THE PIPELINE

Hugh Paxton is seeking a good publisher for a series of highly energetic and entertaining fantay novels that await publication, • The Alchemist Series Four novels in a series set in northern England • Homunculs II, Second Hand Soldiers Just when you thought it was safe to return to the jungle … • The Deuteronomy Club Fantastical adventures from a rather peculiar gentlemen’s club …

Hugh Paxton’s Homunculus

is a fanasy horror novel that draws upon many real events to highlight the issues of child soldiers and the horrors that face them and those that they inflict, this horror fantasy action novel is set in Sierra Leone during the recent fighting. This story has also been worked into a screenplay. Hugh has also written two sequel novels that are ready for publication.

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Global Ecotour Guide

Here it is, the Japanes language guidebook to the world’s finest ecotours Read Hugh’s Blog

Magazine Writing

Hugh Paxton’s articles hav aappeared in over thirty newspapers and magazines Read Hugh’s Blog

Cosmopolitan Feature

The author and his wife, Midori featured in Cosmopolitan magazine Japanese edition.

Environmental Issues Textbook

Hugh is a contributing author to Make It Or Break It The Future of Our Environment Read Hugh’s Blog

“Writing has its own life.” - Hugh Paxton -

Hugh Paxton’s Other Writing Hugh’s contributed over 6,000 articles, columns and photo essays published in more than 30 magazines and newspapers, including: The Sunday Times (UK) BBC Wildlife Magazine (UK) The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong/China) Intersect magazine (Japan) The Japan Times The Daily Yomiuri newspaper (Japan) The Asahi Weekly newspaper (Japan) The Mainichi Weekly newspaper (Japan) The World Press Review (USA) The Mainichi Graphic magazine (Japan) British Airways in-flight magazine, High Life (UK) Kyodo News Services (syndicated throughout Asia) Radio Japan (broadcast throughout Asia) The Japanese Govt’s annual Green Paper (Japan) NATURE TRAVEL Read Hugh Paxton’s Travel Writing column in The Japan Times

His Royal Highness Prince Charles speaking out about the sate of the global environment in the face of the sixth big extinction.at the premiere of ‘Our Planet’ the new TV series from Sir David Attenborough released on Netflix.

The world’s biodiversity is threatened with the

imminent loss of about a million wildlife

species by the year 2050.

(Source IPBES Press Release Report) The IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is the most comprehensive ever completed. It is the first intergovernmental Report of its kind and builds on the landmark Millennium Ecosystem Assessment of 2005, introducing innovative ways of evaluating evidence. Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past three years, with inputs from another 310 contributing authors, the Report assesses changes over the past five decades, providing a comprehensive picture of the relationship between economic development pathways and their impacts on nature. It also offers a range of possible scenarios for the coming decades.

Based on the systematic review of about 15,000 scientific and government sources, The Report also draws (for the first time ever at this scale) on indigenous and local knowledge, particularly addressing issues relevant to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. “Biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people are our common heritage and humanity’s most important life-supporting ‘safety net’. But our safety net is stretched almost to breaking point,” said Prof. Sandra Díaz (Argentina), who co-chaired the Assessment with Prof. Josef Settele (Germany) and Prof. Eduardo S. Brondízio (Brazil and USA). “The diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems, as well as many fundamental contributions we derive from nature, are declining fast, although we still have the means to ensure a sustainable future for people and the planet.” The Report finds that around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history. The average abundance of native species in most major land-based habitats has fallen by at least 20%, mostly since 1900. More than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reefforming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened. The picture is less clear for insect species, but available evidence supports a tentative estimate of 10% being threatened. At least 680 vertebrate species had been driven to extinction since the 16th century and more than 9% of all domesticated breeds of mammals used for food and agriculture had become extinct by 2016, with at least 1,000 more breeds still threatened. “Ecosystems, species, wild populations, local varieties and breeds of domesticated plants and animals are shrinking, deteriorating or vanishing. The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed,” said Prof. Settele. “This loss is a direct result of human activity and constitutes a direct threat to human well-being in all regions of the world.” Facing Extinction To increase the policy-relevance of the Report, the assessment’s authors have ranked, for the first time at this scale and based on a thorough analysis of the available evidence, the five direct drivers of change in nature with the largest relative global impacts so far. These culprits are, in descending order: (1) changes in land and sea use; (2) direct exploitation of organisms; (3) climate change; (4) pollution and (5) invasive alien species. The Report notes that, since 1980, greenhouse gas emissions have doubled, raising average global temperatures by at least 0.7 degrees Celsius – with climate change already impacting nature from the level of ecosystems to that of genetics – impacts expected to increase over the coming decades, in some cases surpassing the impact of land and sea use change and other drivers. Harmful Drivers

The five direct drivers of negative change in

nature with the largest relative global

impacts so far in descending order:

(1) changes in land and sea use

(2) direct exploitation of organisms

(3) climate change

(4) pollution

(5) invasive alien species

Despite progress to conserve nature and implement policies, the Report also finds that global goals for conserving and sustainably using nature and achieving sustainability cannot be met by current trajectories, and goals for 2030 and beyond may only be achieved through transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors. With good progress on components of only four of the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets, it is likely that most will be missed by the 2020 deadline. Current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% (35 out of 44) of the assessed targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans and land (SDGs 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 14 and 15). Loss of biodiversity is therefore shown to be not only an environmental issue, but also a developmental, economic, security, social and moral issue as well. “To better understand and, more importantly, to address the main causes of damage to biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people, we need to understand the history and global interconnection of complex demographic and economic indirect drivers of change, as well as the social values that underpin them,” said Prof. Brondízio. “Key indirect drivers include increased population and per capita consumption; technological innovation, which in some cases has lowered and in other cases increased the damage to nature; and, critically, issues of governance and accountability. A pattern that emerges is one of global interconnectivity and ‘telecoupling’ – with resource extraction and production often occurring in one part of the world to satisfy the needs of distant consumers in other regions.” Other notable findings of the Report include1: • Three-quarters of the land-based environment and about 66% of the marine environment have been significantly altered by human actions. On average these trends have been less severe or avoided in areas held or managed by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. • More than a third of the world’s land surface and nearly 75% of freshwater resources are now devoted to crop or livestock production. • The value of agricultural crop production has increased by about 300% since 1970, raw timber harvest has risen by 45% and approximately 60 billion tons of renewable and nonrenewable resources are now extracted globally every year – having nearly doubled since 1980. • Land degradation has reduced the productivity of 23% of the global land surface, up to US$577 billion in annual global crops are at risk from pollinator loss and 100- 300 million people are at increased risk of floods and hurricanes because of loss of coastal habitats and protection. • In 2015, 33% of marine fish stocks were being harvested at unsustainable levels; 60% were maximally sustainably fished, with just 7% harvested at levels lower than what can be sustainably fished. • Urban areas have more than doubled since 1992. • Plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980, 300-400 million tons of heavy metals, solvents, toxic sludge and other wastes from industrial facilities are dumped annually into the world’s waters, and fertilizers entering coastal ecosystems have produced more than 400 ocean ‘dead zones’, totalling more than 245,000 km2 (591-595) - abcombined area greater than that of the United Kingdom. • Negative trends in nature will continue to 2050 and beyond in all of the policy scenarios explored in the Report, except those that include transformative change – due to the projected impacts of increasing land-use change, exploitation of organisms and climate change, although with significant differences between regions. The Report also presents a wide range of illustrative actions for sustainability and pathways for achieving them across and between sectors such as agriculture, forestry, marine systems, freshwater systems, urban areas, energy, finance and many others. It highlights the importance of, among others, adopting integrated management and cross-sectoral approaches that take into account the trade-offs of ood and energy production, infrastructure, freshwater and coastal management, and biodiversity conservation. Also identified as a key element of more sustainable future policies is the evolution of global financial and economic systems to build a global sustainable economy, steering away from the current limited paradigm of economic growth. “IPBES presents the authoritative science, knowledge and the policy options to decisionmakers for their consideration,” said IPBES Executive Secretary, Dr. Anne Larigauderie. “We thank the hundreds of experts, from around the world, who have volunteered their time and knowledge to help address the loss of species, ecosystems and genetic diversity – a truly global and generational threat to human well-being.” VISIT OUR PLANET WEBSITE

“We must be the change that we need!”

His Royal Highness Prince Charles speaking out poignantly about the sate of the global environment in the face of the sixth big extinction t the premiere of ‘Our Planet’ the new eries from Sir David Attenborough released on Silverback Films by Netflix.

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