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Businesses should be liable for the harm they do. Polly Higgins has launched a push to make ecocide an international crime. Why do we wait until someone has passed away before we honour them?...
In the morning of 28 march Da Nang Customs, the Department of Environmental Police, Da Nang Port Border Guard Board and Central Region Anti-Smuggling Control Team investigated the cargo of a ship names SB...
Vote by MEPs paves way for law to come into force by 2021 across EU. The European parliament has voted to ban single-use plastic cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers as part of a...
It was just another ordinary day for cameraman Garth De Bruno Austin, who was shooting a conservation film about rhino poaching in South Africa, when he was suddenly approached by a rhino asking for...
For more than three years, European Union members states authorized unlawful fishing activities off the coast of Africa in contravention of common regional laws and policies, a new report shows. Oceana, the largest international...
Authorities keep arresting people said to be bosses of wildlife trafficking, but that isn’t making a dent in the problem. In 2003, enterprising criminals in Southeast Asia realized that they could exploit a loophole...
Foreign trawlers, following the rules, could be a great source of income for poor countries. But what happens if they don’t follow the rules? How are they getting away with that? Is someone turning...
Undoubtedly, the advent of social media changed the way we travel. Take one look through your Instagram or Facebook feed and you’ll likely come across at least a post or two that gives you just...
Wonder why wildlife is disappearing? The government is killing cougars, bobcats, bears, wolves and coyotes to protect cows, pigs and chickens. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s own reports, it has killed over 34...
In just 10 years the planet has lost 945,345 km2 of natural forests, a little over the total size of Venezuela. The rate of loss of forest covering has doubled since 2003 and the deforestation...
Plastic is replaced by banana leaves in a supermarket chain in in Chiangmai, Thailand. Doing its part to stem the tide of single-use plastics flooding into the ocean. While most supermarkets bundle their strawberries...
Spekboom, also known as pork bush or elephant’s food, is our own indigenous South African wonder plant. Besides being edible (and high in Vitamin C), the medium-sized shrub found predominantly in the Eastern Cape...
Hundreds of mutilated, dead dolphins which had been caught in nets have been discovered on a beach in France. Thousands of the animals are accidentally caught by the offshore fishing industry each year. Many...
Spain’s Supreme Court has upheld a ban on the torture of bulls during the cruel “Toro de la Vega” festival, following years of pressure from local Spanish groups, including PACMA, and PETA. No young...
The Kenyan government is negotiating with China for a loan of about 3.6 billion dollar to complete the third phase of the standard gauge railway. Hard loans According to Kenya Railways Acting Director Philip...
As the frozen fish defrosts under the hot Kenyan sun, fishmonger Mechak Juma prefers not to tell his customers that it has come all the way from China. We are at the largest fish...
PETER DOCKRILL 20 MAR 2019 In the Gulf of California, an innocent, once-flourishing animal is on the verge of disappearing from the world forever: a victim of nets, and the humans who lay them....
By Mustapha Jallow Staff of the Forestry Department have accused a Chinese factory that burns tires within the periphery of Nyambai Forest of polluting the environment. When this reporter visited the factory he found...
A dead longcomb sawfish, a critically endangered species of shark, was hauled in Sindhudurg on Sunday morning. A dead longcomb sawfish, a critically endangered species of shark, was hauled in Sindhudurg, a district in Maharashtra, on...
ENVIRONMENT minister Pohamba Shifeta said about 68.000 rare trees were illegally cut down in Kavango East. Shifeta revealed these statistics in the National Assembly yesterday when he answered questions from PDM member of parliament...
At least 1000 Mozambicans and more than 150 Zimbabweans and Malawians have lost their lives. Tropical cyclone Idai has claimed the lives of many with even more people still missing. Violent winds and powerful floods have...
An endangered orangutan with a young baby on Indonesia’s Sumatra island was blinded after being shot at least 74 times with an air gun, an official and veterinarian said Monday. An X-ray showed at...
At the bottom of the world, in some of the roughest seas, live mysterious killer whales that look very different from other orcas. A mysterious new orca species ‘Type-D’ is discovered by researchers Now, for...
Cyclone Idai has had a “massive and horrifying” impact on Mozambique’s port city of Beira, the Red Cross says. It made landfall on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph), but...
How far would you go to stop rhino poaching? Constantly outgunned by poachers’ high-tech helicopters, machine guns, night-vision binoculars, bullet-proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of “medicinal” rhino horns that are worth...
