Brasilia – Brazil. Brazil announced a green initiative of pollution-cutting measures aimed at making the 2014 football World Cup the most environmentally friendly ever. “We want to score green goals”, announced environment minister Izabella...
Every 15 minutes an elephant is butchered for its tusks. That is 100 elephants every day. Nonetheless, the South African Minister of Water and Environment Affairs, Edna Molewa, recently said: “We did an ivory...
South African award winning ocean conservationist, Lesley Rochat, has stripped naked to campaign against shark culling. In response to the use of baited drumlines in Western Australia and South Africa, a controversial program to...
France – In their latest campaign against laboratory-tested primates PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has given 26 reasons why you should never fly Air France. Air France, says the PETA campaign,...
Zimbabwe – A report commissioned by animal advocacy group, Born Free USA and released by C4ADS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting of conflict and security issues worldwide, has revealed...
Brussels, Belgium – On the 10th and 11th April, 170 representatives met to deliberate on how the EU can better fight the surge of wildlife trafficking in recent years, a scourge that has reached...
In the wake of France, the USA, China, Philippines, Chad and Ghana, Belgium became the latest country to destroy its stockpile of ivory. On Wednesday at the Palais des Colonies near Brussels the country...
Hwange, Zimbabwe – Fresh concerns have been raised over the safety of Zimbabwe’s famous herd of Presidential Elephants after it has emerged that state land bordering on the Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe’s largest game...
Paris, France – The City of Light’s shine has dimmed as an early spring has caused an unprecedented hazy cloud of pollution to descend on the hapless Parisians. On Friday, pollution levels hit 180...
World – People from 44 cities around the world, from Sao Paolo to Stockholm, will be marching against the burgeoning industry of captive lion hunting. The march, to be held on the 15th March,...
