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Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas turns up in international corruption scandal
The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas (PP) is involved in a corruption affair concerning fish quotas in Namibia. This has emerged from research by research collective Spit for De Groene Amsterdammer. The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der...
Film: Nation of Destruction – About Chinese Fishmeal Factories in the Gambia
Nation of Destruction is mini documentary made through the eyes of the locals. The people in Kartong, Sanyang and Gunjur are facing a massive environmental disaster since Chinese owned fishmeal factories started operating along Gambia's beaches. Green World Warrior...
Namibia Auctions Fishing Rights to Raise Money for Corona Virus
JOHANNESBURG - Namibia plans to auction the right to catch horse mackerel and hake off its coast to foreign fishing vessels to urgently raise money to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s fisheries ministry on Monday announced plans to sell 60% of its...
Trump Jr.’s Trophy Hunt in Mongolia cost American Taxpayers $77,000
We’ve just learned that Donald Trump Jr.’s trophy hunting trip to Mongolia, where he hunted an argali sheep—an animal listed as “threatened” under the U.S. Endangered Species Act—cost American taxpayers a whopping $77,000. The revelation comes from the watchdog...
Thailand: Video of Pregnant Whale Shark Killed by Fishermen Goes Viral
Facebook user ‘Go-Eco Phuket’ local conservation group yesterday (May 18) posted a video clip with 1.11 minutes long with a message read “#RIP whale shark mother at Phuket. Why catching small fish. Catching a big fish is better with its babies. Cr.Aqua centre.” The...
China removes Pangolin scales from medicine list
Campaigners hope the move will help end global trade in the scaly anteater, identified as a possible host for Covid-19. Pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine in a move lauded by...
Film: Nation of Destruction – About Chinese Fishmeal Factories in the Gambia
Nation of Destruction is mini documentary made through the eyes of the locals. The people in Kartong, Sanyang and Gunjur are facing a massive environmental disaster since Chinese owned fishmeal factories started operating along Gambia's beaches. Green World Warrior...
China removes Pangolin scales from medicine list
Campaigners hope the move will help end global trade in the scaly anteater, identified as a possible host for Covid-19. Pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine in a move lauded by...
Coronavirus: how China plans to restore its image in Africa
China, the birthplace of the coronavirus pandemic, has been sending medical supplies across the continent. Will these efforts be enough to divert attention away from the country’s questionable management of the crisis and the discrimination African nationals have...
China’s State Insurers Have Stopped Covering Pangolin Medicines
Users will no longer be reimbursed by state insurance schemes, but more action is needed to save African pangolins, says report The dropping by China’s state insurers of medicines derived from pangolin scales could help save threatened populations in Africa. The move...
How China’s Taking Over Africa, And Why the World Should Be VERY Worried
On June 5, 1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and a distinguished African explorer in his own right, outlined a daring (if by today's standards utterly offensive) new method to 'tame' and colonise what was then known as...
How Chinese Trawlers Can Not Be Removed From Surinamese waters despite violations
Chinese vessels fishing illegally on west African coast The judge has decided that the Chinese trawlers, or fishing vessels, may not be removed from Surinamese waters awaiting a decision by the judge hearing the application for interim relief. Melvin Bouva,...
Ecuador Sells A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies
Ecuador is planning to auction off three million of the country's 8.1 million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, Jonathan Kaiman of The Guardian reports. The report comes as oil pollution forced neighboring Peru to declare an...
Amazon Deforestation for January Hits Record
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil more than doubled in January compared with the previous year, according to official data published Friday. More than 280 square kilometers (110 square miles) were cleared, an increase of 108 percent. It was the largest...
Cutting Trees Makes Forest Fires Worse Experts Say
Allowing logging in national parks would increase the intensity of bushfires by boosting the amount of flammable fuel and creating additional "kindling", experts have warned. Millions of hectares have been scorched in raging bushfires across Australia since October...
Metallica makes mega donation of $750,000 for Australian bushfire relief
The latest in a long line of celebrities and musicians to donate money to bushfire relief is Metallica, who have pledged $750,000 to the NSW Rural Fire Service and the Country Fire Authority in Victoria. In a series of tweets, the rock legends wrote they were "totally...
Over One Billion Animals Died in Australia’s Bushfires
Adelaide wildlife rescuer Simon Adamczyk holds a koala he rescued at a burning forest near Cape Borda on Kangaroo Island (Picture: EPA) The number of wildlife feared to have died in the bushfires ravaging Australia has soared to over one billion. Chris Dickman, an...
How Australia Became one of the Worst Deforesters in the World
Australia is the only nation in the developed world to make the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) global list of deforestation hotspots. The biennial Living Planet Report, published this week, puts Australia alongside New Guinea, Indonesia, Congo and Brazil for...
Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas turns up in international corruption scandal
The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas (PP) is involved in a corruption affair concerning fish quotas in Namibia. This has emerged from research by research collective Spit for De Groene Amsterdammer. The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der...
Namibia Auctions Fishing Rights to Raise Money for Corona Virus
JOHANNESBURG - Namibia plans to auction the right to catch horse mackerel and hake off its coast to foreign fishing vessels to urgently raise money to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s fisheries ministry on Monday announced plans to sell 60% of its...
Thailand: Video of Pregnant Whale Shark Killed by Fishermen Goes Viral
Facebook user ‘Go-Eco Phuket’ local conservation group yesterday (May 18) posted a video clip with 1.11 minutes long with a message read “#RIP whale shark mother at Phuket. Why catching small fish. Catching a big fish is better with its babies. Cr.Aqua centre.” The...
China Dumps Chemicals around Kalayaan Island to drive away Filipino fishermen
The Facebook page Kalayaan ATIN ITO revealed that China is aiming to cripple economic activities in order to push away civilians and leave the islands unoccupied. Once this happens, the Chinese apparently has plans to take control of the area and establish a military...
Trump Allows Commercial Fishing in Marine Conservation Area
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled back protections Friday at a marine conservation area off the New England coast, signing an order to allow commercial fishing in a stretch of water environmentalists say is critical for endangered right whales and...
The Chinese Paddlefish, Which Lived for 200 Million Years, Is Now Extinct
New research concludes the freshwater species likely disappeared between 2005 and 2010 due to human activity. China’s Yangtze River, the world’s third longest river, is home to 378 known species of fish. But the Chinese paddlefish, once a common freshwater fish in the...
Trump Jr.’s Trophy Hunt in Mongolia cost American Taxpayers $77,000
We’ve just learned that Donald Trump Jr.’s trophy hunting trip to Mongolia, where he hunted an argali sheep—an animal listed as “threatened” under the U.S. Endangered Species Act—cost American taxpayers a whopping $77,000. The revelation comes from the watchdog...
Thailand: Video of Pregnant Whale Shark Killed by Fishermen Goes Viral
Facebook user ‘Go-Eco Phuket’ local conservation group yesterday (May 18) posted a video clip with 1.11 minutes long with a message read “#RIP whale shark mother at Phuket. Why catching small fish. Catching a big fish is better with its babies. Cr.Aqua centre.” The...
Botswana: Mass Elephant Poisoning Already Counting 110 deaths
Anthrax and poisoning have been ruled out as the cause of a rising number of unexplained elephant deaths in Botswana, the country with the world’s biggest population of the animals. Wildlife authorities have now discovered 110 carcasses in north west Botswana, up from...
Six Elephants Killed In One Day By Poachers in Ethiopia
Poachers have killed at least six elephants in a single day in Ethiopia, wildlife officials said on Tuesday, the largest such slaughter in memory in the east African nation.
Japanese Whale Hunters Kill 122 Pregnant Whales
Humane Society International has expressed outrage that Japanese whale hunters killed 122 pregnant female whales year in the Southern Ocean as part of Japan's whaling program NEWREP-A.The information was contained in newly published meeting papers from the...
New York Too Has Over 80 Wet Markets That Sell & Slaughter Live Animals
New York City too has over 80 wet markets that sell ten animal species, including goats, sheep, chickens, guinea hens, rabbits, pigeons, Muscovy ducks, and quail. China’s deadly ‘wet markets’ that are notorious for allegedly being the ‘creators of coronavirus’ have...
Fishmeal factories in the Gambia
This is a mini documentary about the Chinese invasion of fishmeal factories in the Gambia seen through the eyes of the locals.
