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Historical landmarks like the Cathedral of Notre-Dame are significant symbols of culture, so naturally, people will identify emotionally with these symbols just as they do with their culture. However, let’s face it, the cathedral...
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...
Yearly the band members are participate in the annual whale hunts for pilot whales in the Faroe Islands. During the so-called ‘Grind’, dozens of boats are driving the pilot whales into a bay where...
Historical landmarks like the Cathedral of Notre-Dame are significant symbols of culture, so naturally, people will identify emotionally with these symbols just as they do with their culture. However, let’s face it, the cathedral...
The Climate Agreement states that much more forest must be added to store carbon dioxide (CO2). According to Staatsbosbeheer, tens of thousands of hectares of trees must be added. But the reality is the...
Man figures out how to make bioplastic out of food waste, rather than food, making it as cheap as regular plastic. With all the single-use plastic bans coming into effect around the world, there...
A team of researchers working in China has created several transgenic rhesus monkeys by adding a human gene involved in brain growth to the monkey’s genome. In their paper published in the National Science Review,...
This huge project has planted saplings of more than 290 species of trees, and seen the return of many species of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and insects. This project is the result of an...
Few of us are likely to spend much time meditating on the problem of plastic, at least until a tranquil afternoon is violently disrupted by the vision of a stray Walmart bag sailing across...
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth. David Attenborough is the most famous nature storyteller on television. The 92-year-old producer,...
An endangered turtle returned to a Maldives beach to lay its eggs – only to discover a runway had been built on the historical nesting site. The green sea turtle, whose population is falling...
Beijing (CNN)The last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle has died in China, according to Chinese state media, potentially dooming the species to extinction. The female turtle, believed to be more than 90 years...
At least nine million fish have been killed by diseases, botched treatments, poor handling and other problems at salmon farms around Scotland since 2016, according to official returns. Caged salmon companies have reported over...
China in Africa: The Zambia experience Many Africans are worried by the increasing presence of China on the continent. But how much is China really involved? A DW team traveled to Zambia to investigate...
Our ancestors were well aware of the dangers of neocolonialism. During the 1974 Pan-African Congress, Black leaders from around the world affirmed the following: To put an end to foreign domination in Africa by...
China’s latest white paper on Tibet, once again highlights Beijing’s absolute lack of understanding of Tibet’s History and its unwillingness to read beyond government documents. China’s 60 Years of Environmental Destruction in Tibet. The...
China’s growing engagement with African countries got a publicity boost on 3-4 September with the latest Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The triennial event brought leaders and officials from 53 African countries and the...
Authorities in Sierra Leone on Monday started implementing a one-month ban on fishing in the country’s territorial waters, in addition to halting of exports by major fishing companies, in a bid to shore up...
The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after President Trump appeared to pause a first attempt to do so amid public uproar....
The three members of the notorious Ndlovu poaching gang were yesterday each sentenced to an effective 25 years in prison for their role in decimating the rare rhino population in the Eastern Cape. Zimbabwean...
After a three-year long lawsuit, Monsanto has been charged and ordered to pay more than $80 million in damages to Edwin Hardeman, CNN reported on Wednesday. The California resident claims that Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, which...
Fishermen who just keep on fishing, researchers who get behind the facts and national governments who do not feel like intervening. What is now happening with sardinella fishing in northwest African waters is, according...
A senior Indonesian minister warned on Wednesday Southeast Asia’s biggest economy could consider exiting the Paris climate deal if the European Union goes ahead with a plan to phase out palm oil in renewable...
Some wealthy Nigerians are ordering pizzas from London and having them delivered back home on British Airways flights, a government minister has claimed. “Do you know, sir, that there are Nigerians who use their...
In the tropical landscape of peninsular India, coconut trees form a vital resource in everyday life. From extensive culinary use to generating a wide range of household items as by-products, coconut is virtually indispensable...
In Australia they installed a new simple, but unbelievably effective, plastic filtration system in the Henley Reserve to help prevent plastic from polluting our oceans. The Australian city of Kwinana has done something during...
At a time when local fishermen in Somalia are struggling to compete with foreign vessels that are depleting fishing stocks, the government has granted 31 fishing licenses to China. Since assuming power last year,...
Nigeria government is now at risk of losing its main state assets to China over unpaid huge increasing loans. But according to Nigerian government, the growing debt is sustainable, and the country is not...
