Environmental news and activism
Miami: The world’s largest cruise line company, Carnival, has agreed to pay a $US20 million ($28 million) penalty because its ships continued to pollute the oceans despite a previous criminal conviction aimed at curbing similar...
After receiving major backlash, Mike Jines, a partner of TopGen Energy, is claiming he did that for ‘self-defence.’ In the recent few years, humans have not only managed to disrupt the habitats of multiple...
Botswana is moving towards culling elephants by lifting its wildlife hunting ban after a group of the country’s ministers endorsed the idea, but the proposal has drawn heavy criticism. Botswana’ is planning to cull...
Miami: The world’s largest cruise line company, Carnival, has agreed to pay a $US20 million ($28 million) penalty because its ships continued to pollute the oceans despite a previous criminal conviction aimed at curbing similar...
A MIND reading brain computer chip has been announced at the World Intelligence Congress in China. The breakthrough device is called Brain Talker and allows a person to control a computer with just their...
Cruel elephant rides at a famous temple in Cambodia are now coming to an end. The overworked group of 14 elephants will no longer be forced to work at Angkor Wat, where over 2.5 million international tourists visit each year.
The move has been criticized by conservationists but lauded by locals who say wild elephants are ruining their livelihoods.
a recent response to National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) states, India has lost 51 tigers in territorial fight, poaching or electrocution in the first five months, till May 29, 2019.
Two seamen, Halldór Gústaf and Gunnar Þór, recorded themselves cutting the tail off of what appears to be a Greenland shark, laughing about it, before tossing it back into the sea in Iceland. Both...
toms agents in Manzanillo, Colima, have confiscated a large haul of illegal shark fins bound for the Philippines.
Following the decision to lift the hunting ban, the Botswana government has stated that fewer than 400 elephant hunting licenses will be granted annually and that “hunting will be allowed on a small, strictly controlled basis”.
In the Danish Faroe Islands the fifth grind took place in the evening of May the 26th in the village Hvalba. The Faroer news agencies state the number of murdered pilot whales between 30...
While member states of UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) are celebrating biodiversity day- under the theme: “our biodiversity, our food, our health”! The Chinese Fishmeal company- Golden Lead were busy yesterday discharging waste...
Algeria: A family of four sperm whales entangled in gillnets drowned near the coast of east Algiers. A dramatic scene took place in Algeria the 16th of may when a family of sperm whales...
Millions of songbirds are vacuumed out of trees and killed each year during the nocturnal Mediterranean olive harvest, researchers have warned. Over 2.6 million birds are sucked out of trees and killed every year in Andalusia. Vast numbers of...
Up to 100 sharks washed up dead on a beach in Wales, with some suspecting foul play. A video posted on Facebook showed the sharks strewn across the beach in Carmarthenshire, Wales, with the woman who...
The Ugandan government will be smiling all the way to the bank after putting pen to paper in a KSh 160 billion deal (4.2 million USD) to export medical marijuana products to Germany and...
donkeys skinnned alive in kenya
Unfortunately, the images that appear in our head when we think of the Earth as we know it are not completely accurate, as the planet has dramatically changed since our early school years. Satellite...
A new report exposes the government’s failure to curb the controversial timber trade, with revelations that 10 000 blocks of wood from northern Namibia have been exported to China and Vietnam since November 2018....
A criminal network fro Romania, dedicated to fishing and illegal trafficking of carp and catfish to eastern European markets, has been rolled up in Spain. In the operation seven people have been arrested and...
AN ELDERLY Chinese man who admitted that he had illegal wildlife products, including a rhinoceros horn, and a firearm in his possession at the start of last year was sentenced to pay fines totalling...
Japanese whaling vessels launched on Saturday the last round of what Japan calls scientific research off the Pacific coast ahead of the country’s pullout from the International Whaling Commission next month for commercial hunting....
Earth is losing wildlife at an alarming pace, a crisis many scientists now describe as a mass extinction event. The planet has seen several mass extinctions before, but this is the first in human history...
A total of 97 sub-adult elephants have been exported from Zimbabwe to China and Dubai between 2012 and January 2018 with Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) receiving US$ 2.715.000 It is estimated...
Sanyang, a coastal village in The Gambia has been struck by another environmental disaster as millions of dead fish wash up ‘Paradise beach‘. Local environmentalist shot this footage the 9th of may. Since Chinese...
A Chinese woman, Helena Huang is in the grips of the Police in Tamale for allegedly attempting to smuggle four containers of Rosewood. The Police say they intercepted two trucks in Tamale loaded with...
The government could write a cheque now and save the rhino from extinction, cricket star Kevin Pietersen has said as he lambasts celebrities who use poverty to virtue signal. The former England captain, who...
