COMMENT AND NEWS: The desire by governments in any country to reforest their landscape because it has been deforested for commercial reasons is admirable as… Read More »Reforestation can go wrong: some golden rules for effective reforestation
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a very disturbing story. It concerns the first EU renewable energy directive. It obliges member states to source 20% of… Read More »Flawed EU biomass legislation causing mass deforestation in Europe
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story from Australia highlights the battle between the conservation of native wild species on that continent and commerce which often wants… Read More »Classic story of wildlife conservation versus destruction of habitat for commercial reasons in Australia
In a move which only China could make, China’s administrators are introducing a law which states that diners who fail to finish their meal in… Read More »China is making it illegal to leave any food on your dinner plate!
The world’s human population relentlessly rises and there is real concern but thankfully at last people are talking about it. Some people think that the… Read More »Farming to feed rising human population will destroy wildlife
Allegedly, British supermarkets are complicit in the deforestation of Brazilian rainforest because some of their supply chain products are linked with Brazilian mega-farms which destroy… Read More »British supermarkets allegedly complicit in deforestation of Brazilian rainforest
NEWS AND VIEWS: Although the UK supermarket, Morrisons, have decided to stop sourcing its own brand of corned beef from a Brazilian meat company accused… Read More »Auditors, financiers and retailers are supporting deforestation
It’s all over the news and it’s going to have quite a big impact on the rapidly growing vegan movement. Food manufacturers have had to… Read More »Vegans 40% more likely to suffer a bone fracture
NEWS AND VIEWS: I’m going to be the only one who thinks like this. I don’t like to see a 30 year old, 43-foot tall… Read More »Cutting down a 43 foot spruce tree for Parliament Square at Christmas
PETA and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services both say, as do many others, that meat should be taxed in the same… Read More »Tax meat to stop disease and to protect the animals and the environment
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): There is a war going on in the Amazon jungle between companies who have been issued with licences to log the… Read More »Customers don’t care if wood from the Amazon is illegal or legal
Chinese conservationists and researchers have built an arboreal highway by using a rope to span between two areas of a fragmented habitat lived in by… Read More »Artificial arboreal rope highway to join up fragmented gibbon habitat
Corporations in Europe are failing to do the right thing in respect of conservation and it is time for governments to force them to behave… Read More »BMW leather seats damage wildlife conservation
It pays to protect nature. It pays because the better you protect nature the less likelihood there is of people being infected by a zoonotic… Read More »Protecting nature protects people by minimising zoonotic disease carrying animals
A pristine African forest, the home to some of the world’s most precious and endangered species such as apes and birds is to be opened… Read More »Logging a pristine African forest to supply timber to China
Just at the time when humanity should be preserving forests as they are vital to curb global warming, deforestation in the Amazon rose sharply in… Read More »Warning: humankind charging toward catastrophe with huge rise in Amazon destruction