I have said it a gazillion times and now the United Nations are saying it. It has produced a highly publicised and comprehensive report about Western lifestyles and how they must change in order to avoid catastrophe in terms of the extinction of 1 million …
Human activity, usually some sort of commercialisation of wildlife or natural resources, puts 1 million species on the planet at risk of extinction according to a United Nations report on biodiversity. This is a comprehensive assessment and the first of its kind since 2005. It …
For the first time, a dam is being built in a UNESCO world Heritage site in Tanzania which is destined to irretrievable destroy in the long term perhaps one of the greatest game reserves in the world, the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania. It …
Polly Higgins is the sort of person I would have liked to have met. She was passionate about protecting the environment and therefore protecting the animals that lived in it. She left her job as a barrister and sold her home to campaign for an …
It really is time that Asian governments stepped up to the plate and started to protect wild species in their countries. The Indonesian and Malaysian governments must take steps to protect the forests in their countries because they are being destroyed by commercial organisations and …
The Vietnamese are one of the world’s largest consumers of rhino horn. Their desire for it contributes hugely to the killing of rhinos in the wild in Africa. Vu Hoai Nam Dang, PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen and Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, Associate Prof University of …
Prince Harry is tipped to make a documentary film accompanying wounded war veterans to Lesotho or Botswana to track wildlife poachers. He is well suited to the job and has done some media work already. His has worked as a wildlife conservation volunteer in Africa …
Greta Thunberg, 16, has Asperger’s. She is moving mountains. She is making politicians in the UK sit up and listen about climate change. She is in the UK at the moment. Greta is the talented and brave teenager who triggered the school strike for climate …
My friends think the Extinction Rebellion (ER) protestors in London should be hauled off the streets and deposited in jail at the earliest opportunity. They dislike them strongly and hate the fact that they are disrupting their lives. I don’t see it that way at …
