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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...
Zambia Legalized Cannabis Production to Boost Economy
Zambia has legalized the production and exportation of Cannabis in a bid to boost its economy. The government has said that the production of the substance will be for medicinal purposes only. Zambia is currently in a weak economic state and battling with crippling...
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...
Russia Declares Emergency After 20.000 tons of Oil Spill in Siberia
The leak of more than 20,000 tons of diesel in Siberia, said to be one of the country’s worst such accidents, turned a river crimson and was heading for the ocean. By The New York Times MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has declared a state of emergency...
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.
China Conquers Africa Completely by the End of 2019
The devil is in the detail as China’s generosity towards African countries has peaked in recent years coinciding with the great economic vision and strides by the continent as a single body in the face of threats and sanctions from long-time allies, the United States...
Export of Fish Meal from Africa a Threat to Millions in Africa, say Greenpeace
African workers are working in terrible conditions in a fish meal factory in Mauritania DAKAR, June 20 — The exporting of tonnes of fish oil and fish meal from Africa to China and Europe poses a serious danger to the diets of millions of Africans, the Greenpeace...
Gambia: Golden Lead Factory is poisoning Bolong Fenyo Wildlife Reserve AGAIN!
Bolong Fenyo Wildlife reserve, after the chinese came and installed a pipeline for their waste water While member states of UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) are celebrating biodiversity day- under the theme: “our biodiversity, our food, our health”! The...
Kenya: Donkey’s Skinned Alive – Activists Urge to Halt Skin Sales to China
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How Namibia Is Robbing Itself: 10.000 Logs Exported to China losing 24 million
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. Agriculture and environment ministries officials...
Namibia: Chinese Pensioner Fined over Possession Rhino Horn
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 N$156 000 by the Windhoek Regional Court this week. Magistrate Alexis...
Tribal Leader Who Guarded the Amazon Rainforest Murdered by Illegal Loggers
"The Bolsonaro government has the blood of natives on their hands. The increase in violence in native areas is a direct result of his hate-filled speeches. " A young tribal leader was murdered in the Amazon Rainforest on Friday in an ambush by illegal loggers who also...
VIDEO: How The Gambia is losing its forests in record speed
Gambians were full of hope when their new president Barrow was elected in 2016. Former president Jammeh was known for his love towards wildlife. Trees and forests however were not safe in any way. According to a 2015 report on the Chinese rosewood trade, around...
Notre Dame Received More Aid Than Amazon Fires
As the Amazon rainforest burns, resources are rejected and blame continues to shift. Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said he would reconsider accepting aid Tuesday afternoon if he received an apology from French President Emmanuel Macron as a feud heightens between...
Vegan Company Buys 15.000 Acres Of Amazon Rainforest To Protect It
Israeli vegan company VeganNation has bought land in the Amazon rainforest to protect it from exploitation and fires from cattle farmers. The company — which launched its own cryptocurrency last year called VeganCoin — describes itself as a “global, vegan,...
Illegal logging and poverty fuel local tensions in southern Senegal
In the early hours of 6 April 2018 Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a small village in the scrublands of Kolda Region on the Senegalese border with Gambia. Mustapha got up to investigate; 300 metres outside his village...
Deforestation Of The Amazon Has Reached 3 Football Fields Per Minute!
Anthropogenic activities like logging and mining, combined with longer dry seasons, could exacerbate transition of the Amazon rainforests to drier savannah-like states. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The amazon is being clear cut away at a...
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,...
Ghana: More trawlers on Ghana’s waters against dwindling stocks
Their worry is not only about the depletion of fish stocks, but the possible collapse of the entire fishing industry in the not so distant future. The fishers here are worried that the increasing number of industrial fishing vessels on Ghana’s waters is greatly contributing to the depletion of the stocks.
Fish and chip restaurant closes when owners witness depleted sea
A fish and chip restaurant has closed after its owners were left shocked when they saw how depleted the sea was of fish while on a boating trip. A poster in the window of The Fish And The Chip, in St Nicholas Place, Leicester said it was "not comfortable" with the...
Mexico: Customs agents seize 10 tonnes of shark fins in Manzanillo
toms agents in Manzanillo, Colima, have confiscated a large haul of illegal shark fins bound for the Philippines.
Great Britain: 100 Dead Sharks Wash Up With Their Fins Cut Off in Wales
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 filmed the clip estimating around 100 dead sharks on the...
Indonesia sinks 51 fishing boats over illegal fishing
Workers flood the cargo bay of a Vietnamese-flagged boats with water to sink it in the waters off Datuk Island, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Authorities sank 51 foreign fishing boats caught operating illegally in the Indonesian waters as it...
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...
VIDEO: Huge fin whale beaches on the Lizard in Cornwall
A large whale has beached on the Cornish coast. Experts from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) were called to Nare Point on the Lizard this afternoon after the poorly creature beached on rocks. Sadly the animal, thought to be 60ft long, was pronounced dead at...
Hunter Theunis Botha Crushed To Death by Huge Elephant After He Shot it
While leading a hunting trip on a game reserve in Zimbabwe, South African big game hunter Theunis Botha was killed when an elephant collapsed on him. Botha, 51, guided his first hunt through the South African grasslands in 1989 as a college student. He used the money...
Adelaide Hills School Becomes New Home to more than 100 Koalas
In a school hall north of Adelaide, some of the most vulnerable victims of South Australia's bushfire crisis are being treated at a makeshift hospital. A tent city has been set-up to accommodate more than 100 koalas found burnt, dehydrated and displaced in the...
Fishermen Mass to Overwhelm Mexico’s Protected Vaquita Porpoises
In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, dozens of endangered totoaba fish are seen captured inside small fishing boats in the Gulf of California, near San Felipe, Mexico. Sea Shepherd operates in the area to remove the...
Iceland Plans to Kill Over 2000 Whales Within the Next Five Years
ICELAND is planning to slaughter more than 2,000 whales within the next five years in a move that has sparked fury. Whalers will be allowed to harpoon 209 fin whales and 217 minke whales every year until 2023. Despite a declining global market for whale meat and...
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.
