UN told to get serious about wildlife trade risks in its plan for saving biodiversity
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is engaged in a critical meeting between 23 August and 3 September. During...
African experts slam trophy hunting’s impact on people and wildlife, in wake of latest scandal
A recent trophy hunting controversy in Zimbabwe has strengthened the argument that the practice is damaging to conservation. In the...
One of the polluting industries’ favoured climate ‘solutions’ is literally going up in flames
As numerous NGOs laid out in a recent report titled The Big Con, big polluters are promoting lots of climate...
Investigation derails Namibia’s key argument for sale of endangered elephants
Update: This article was updated on 18 August to add in further comments regarding Namibia's elephant population statistics. Namibia confirmed...
Geronimo judge delivers hare-raising verdict in badger cull case
Ecologist Tom Langton recently mounted a legal case against the Conservative government over its ongoing killing of badgers. In particular,...
There’s less than 24 hours to save the latest victim of the government’s flawed TB testing regime
The Conservative government's flawed TB testing regime has already cost over 140,000 badgers their lives. In less than 24 hours,...
Tory government under fire for years-long delay in enforcing ivory trade ban
The UK government proudly announced that one of "the world’s toughest bans on ivory sales" had become law in December...
Broken bat highways and blocked badger homes: how Britain is failing its wildlife
The House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee recently sent a letter to environment secretary George Eustice. The letter...
An 80-second video of the North American heatwave is a horrifying glimpse of our near future
Record-shattering heatwaves have hit the northern hemisphere over recent weeks. Now, a newly-released video has brought the impact of that...
Oil and gas bigwig launches an absurd defence of the UK’s North Sea drilling plans
The fossil fuel industry used to deny that climate change was a thing, or that it had anything to do...
Badger cull is ‘crass hooliganism’ that’s set to continue indefinitely, experts say
The UK is continuing its massacre of badgers for at least the next five years. The optics of the mass...
Revelations show Joe Biden may outpace Donald Trump in greenlighting fossil fuel permits
Donald Trump was a major cheerleader for fossil fuels as president. His administration even rebranded them "molecules of U.S. freedom"....
MPs call for a ‘transformative change’ that will alarm Britain’s ruling capitalist class
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), which is made up of a cross-party group of MPs, released a damning report on...
Tadpoles among the first in line to test the UK’s G7 biodiversity promise
Tadpoles have emerged as unlikely pioneers who are putting the UK government's G7 promise on biodiversity to the test. At...
Poll shows Brits care about the ocean but have a blindspot in terms of its protection
It was World Oceans Day on 8 June. To mark the event, the Ocean Conservation Trust released the results of...
UK spending millions of taxpayers’ money on military project that’s putting endangered whales at risk
The UK government is spending over £23m of taxpayers' money on expanding its naval base at Duqm port in Oman....
Ecologist gets greenlight to take Tory government to court amid its ongoing massacre of badgers
The Tory government announced that badger killing will go on for five more years in England on 27 May. The...
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