Tag: biodiversity crisis

29 September 2021

The global wildlife trading body has released a statement regarding Namibia's scandalous firesale of endangered elephants. Experts and NGOs have ...

Indigenous peoples’ historic plan to save the Amazon gets green light at global summit

11 September 2021

A major global conservation summit is recently concluded in Marseille, France. And for the first time in the history of ...

UN told to get serious about wildlife trade risks in its plan for saving biodiversity

26 August 2021

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is engaged in a critical meeting between 23 August and 3 September. During ...

A herd of elephants huddled together in Namibia

Investigation derails Namibia’s key argument for sale of endangered elephants

18 August 2021

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

14 August 2021

Ecologist Tom Langton recently mounted a legal case against the Conservative government over its ongoing killing of badgers. In particular, ...

Broken bat highways and blocked badger homes: how Britain is failing its wildlife

1 August 2021

The House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee recently sent a letter to environment secretary George Eustice. The letter ...

Heat-stressed salmon with lesions in North American river

An 80-second video of the North American heatwave is a horrifying glimpse of our near future

28 July 2021

Record-shattering heatwaves have hit the northern hemisphere over recent weeks. Now, a newly-released video has brought the impact of that ...

A sign reading 'Capitalism isn't working' outside the Houses of Parliament

MPs call for a ‘transformative change’ that will alarm Britain’s ruling capitalist class

1 July 2021

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

17 June 2021

Tadpoles have emerged as unlikely pioneers who are putting the UK government's G7 promise on biodiversity to the test. At ...

Ecologist gets greenlight to take Tory government to court amid its ongoing massacre of badgers

3 June 2021

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The Tory government announced that badger killing will go on for five more years in England on 27 May. The ...

Opposition mounts against vast new oil project in endangered elephants’ ‘last stronghold’

3 June 2021

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Canadian company ReconAfrica is currently digging for oil in Namibia, with further exploration in Botswana moving forward too. Ultimately, the ...

Two malnourished desert-adapted lions nuzzling each other in Namibia

Namibia’s government is at risk of presiding over the extinction of rare desert lions

24 April 2021

Namibia is often held up as a conservation success story. However, the country's government has also received criticism regarding its ...

Tory government’s ridiculous claim that it’s a ‘world leader’ on climate is proven wrong, again

14 April 2021

The UK government loves to describe itself as a 'world leader' on tackling the climate and biodiversity crises. Its actions, ...

Why the global wildlife trading system is an absolute sham

12 March 2021

The essential and gorgeously diverse array of life on Earth is disappearing fast. That’s a tragedy of Shakespearian proportions*, as ...

Caroline Lucas nails the biggest problem with Sunak’s ‘whatever it takes’ budget

3 March 2021

Rishi Sunak promised to do "whatever it takes" to support people and businesses when delivering his 2021 budget. However, our ...

Tory government U-turns on bee-killing pesticide plan after threat of legal action

3 March 2021