Tag: biodiversity crisis
Pressure mounts on Cambridgeshire council to rethink nature-killing busway plan
By Cambridgeshire County Council's (CCC) own admission, Coton Orchard - a 100-year-old fruit tree, meadow, and hedgerow-filled ecosystem - is ...
UN to make world’s melting ice a priority as loss poses global threat
The United Nations' (UN) weather agency announced on 30 May that it was making the cryosphere - meaning iced areas ...
Tanzanian Maasai visit Europe to urge action over their eviction from their lands
A delegation of Maasai representatives from Tanzania are travelling around Europe in May. They're seeking international support to stop ongoing ...
Circular economy approach to plastic pollution won’t fix the problem
In March 2022, 175 member states agreed to end plastic pollution by forming an international and legally binding agreement by ...
Drop in Amazon deforestation does not let Global North nations off the hook
Figures for the first four months of 2023 show promising signs that Amazon deforestation is beginning a downward trend. However, ...
New survey shows river pollution is a major issue for the British public
A new poll shows that the state of rivers in Britain is a significant issue for many of the British ...
UK authorities greenlight yet another project that will raze homes for wildlife
Another day in the UK, another home for wildlife is greenlit for so-called development. Much to the horror of those ...
Fifty years of tiger reserves in India bring the tiger population to over 3,000, but displaces over a hundred thousand people
Fifty years of tiger conservation in India has increased the big cat's population to over 3000. However, during the same ...
Indigenous Peoples’ forest-saving actions safeguard other people’s health too
Areas of the Amazon rainforest that Indigenous Peoples protect absorb thousands of tonnes of airborne pollution each year. This saves ...
Bold talk, slow walk as Brazil’s Lula sets out to save Amazon
When it comes to what some call his most important job - saving the Amazon rainforest - president Luiz Inacio ...
UK oil spill company Perenco endangers indigenous tribes and represses communities in the Global South
This is part two of a two-part series exploring fossil fuel company Perenco’s impact on communities and the environment across ...
Oil spill in UK natural harbour adds to fossil fuel company’s long list of international crimes against people and the planet
This is the first part of a two-part series exploring fossil fuel company Perenco's impact on communities and the environment ...
Government adds expansive third prong to the badger cull, while claiming a ‘phase out’
The Conservative government has quietly added numerous extensions to existing badger cull areas since 2017. These extensions have snowballed since ...
Oil spill at largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe was a disaster waiting to happen
An oil spill incident just occurred at the largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe. But it wasn't the first pollution ...
Mexico sanctioned over failure to protect world’s most endangered marine mammal
The international wildlife trade body sanctioned Mexico on 27 March. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ...
‘We do not consent’: Pacific Indigenous leaders reject deep-sea mining plans
Pacific Indigenous leaders have called for a ban on deep-sea mining. Indigenous activists delivered their plea to the body that ...
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