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Join the SOS celebrity auction to help save the Sumatran Orangutan
Ecologist
1st March, 2012
With only 6,600 left in the wild, the Sumatran orangutan is critically endangered. Campaign group Sumatran Orangutan Society has organised a celebrity auction to raise money to protect them and their rainforest habitat more...
Humanity has already had four major ecological collapses: how can we avoid a fifth?
Tom Levitt
27th February, 2012
Theologian Martin Palmer tells Tom Levitt how we can learn from previous man-made ecological collapses in Britain and create a 'new narrative' that challenges our dominant consumer culture more...
UK shamed as appetite for cheap timber sees it top sales of illegal wood
Tom Levitt
23rd February, 2012
The £700 million trade is 'one of the best kept secrets', say campaigners, with consumers largely unaware they are buying illegally felled timber more...
Revealed: the new species threatened by deep-sea mining
Bethany Hubbard
20th February, 2012
The lure of deep sea mining in the Pacific and Indian oceans could mean the destruction of species only just discovered on the ocean floor more...
TAKE ACTION to save Indonesia's indigenous peoples in the Kalmantan Forest
Priyanka Mogul
21st February, 2012
The Dayak Benua community of Muara Tae, Indonesia, are fighting to protect their ancestral forests from a mining company. The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency has now launched a campaign to assist more...
Sable shenanigans: how Zambia’s sable population is falling prey to unscrupulous traders
Ian Michler
15th February, 2012
In Zambia’s newest national park live more than 200 sable antelope. Coralled in conditions that are far from ideal, the animals have languished there for almost three years; the victims of bureaucracy, unscrupulous operators and a disregard for conservation. Ian Michler reports more...
Film exposes the tragedy of pirate fishing in Sierra Leone
Priyanka Mogul
14th February, 2012
A new Al Jazeera documentary follows reporter Juliana Ruhfud and producer Orlando von Einsiedel as they investigate Sierra Leone's multi-million dollar illegal fishing trade more...
TAKE ACTION to save Scotland's seals
Priyanka Mogul
8th February, 2012
There has been a significant reduction in the killing of seals in Scotland but the Seal Protection Action Group needs your help in ending the killings altogether more...
PHOTO GALLERY: The Arctic - Treasure of the North
Bernd Rommelt & Thomas Henningsen
1st February, 2012
A new book of stunning photos of the Arctic documents the wonder of one of the last wilderness regions on the planet more...
Who are the Mashco-Piro tribe and can they still hope to stay 'uncontacted'?
David Hill
1st February, 2012
Politicians deny the existence of isolated tribes like the Mashco-Piro as oil, gas and logging exploration increasingly encroaches on their forest territory more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Sharon Johnson, Trees for Cities
Ecologist
27th January, 2012
It is estimated that by 2030, 92 per cent of Britons will live in cities. The CEO of charity Trees for Cities on why its so important but difficult to plant trees in our streets more...
Peru's vanishing fish stocks 'devastated' by corruption and growing fishmeal demand
Ecologist
26th January, 2012
Soaring global demand for fishmeal primarily for animal feed or fish farms, including salmon, is wrecking havoc on the once abundant fish stocks of the southern Pacific more...
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Amazon 'uncontacted' tribes at risk from new highway plan
David Hill
19th January, 2012
Tension is mounting in one of the remotest regions in the Peruvian Amazon over plans to build a highway through the country's biggest national park more...
Tainted gold: thousands join protest against Peru's largest ever mining project
Gervase Poulden
17th January, 2012
A US-backed billion-dollar gold mine has attracted thousands of protestors in recent weeks. Many have the poor economic legacy of existing mines fresh in their minds, reports Gervase Pouldon in Cajamarca, Peru more...
Middle England and eco-activists unite in opposition to shale gas and fracking
Jan Goodey
15th January, 2012
In a perfect storm, Middle England is joining forces with climate activists to say no to fracking and the UK's much-talked about shale gas boom more...
Can biodiversity be accommodated in today's urban environment?
Austin Brown
10th January, 2012
A bold new initiative is designed to raise public awareness of the issue of biodiversity and the need to incorporate native species back within London more...
David Attenborough: Frozen Planet was not alarmist about climate change
Monisha Rajesh, guardian reporter
3rd January, 2012
Attenborough hits back at claims made by former chancellor Nigel Lawson that BBC natural history series lacked objectivity more...
Cetaceans under siege as man-made perils blight the oceans
Anthony Wall
29th December, 2011
Whales, dolphins and porpoises have no respite from oil and chemicals, fishing nets, shipping, noise pollution and a host of other dangers brought about by man's unrelenting destruction of the oceans, says Anthony Wall more...
Seal pups 'sliced open alive': horror of Canadian hunt prompts Russian skins ban
Robbie Marsland
23rd December, 2011
Russia's decision to ban the import and exports of harp seal skins is a big step forward for the campaign against the Canadian seal hunt, says Robbie Marsland, Director of IFAW-UK more...
The National Trust awards recognising pioneering eco-campaigner Octavia Hill
Mike Collins
19th December, 2011
Octavia Hill was a tireless advocate for saving land and green spaces in and around Victorian London. She was also a founder of the National Trust, which is launching an award to recognise modern day 'unsung environmental heroes' more...
How eco-logging and livestock grazing can protect UK's natural landscape
Sam Campbell
9th December, 2011
A web of environmental, economic and social forces have shaped UK landscapes for years. Environmental awareness has slowed encroachment on natural areas, but serious threats persist. Is it time for a fresh approach? more...
Global Witness quits Kimberley Process as Zimbabwe 'blood diamonds' exported
Rosie Spinks
6th December, 2011
Consumers could unwittingly buy rings or other jewellery linked to serious human rights abuses after Kimberley Process fails to prevent the sale of diamonds from Robert Mugabe's Marange diamond fields more...
Biomass is the next biofuel 'land grab' on tropical forests, warn campaigners
Tom Levitt
5th December, 2011
Just as biofuels have gobbled up farmland that should have been growing food so the push on biomass by Monsanto, Cargill and others will see an 'unprecedented' grab on land, plants and biodiverse-rich forests more...
Is there room for wildlife as Africa grapples with development?
Curtis Abraham
1st December, 2011
How poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, intensive farming, climate change and population growth all threaten Africa's unique wildlife more...
On patrol with Zimbabwe's wildlife defenders: the last hope for black rhinos?
Ruth Styles
1st December, 2011
The illegal wildlife trade threatens Zimbabwe's black rhinos with decimation. Ruth Styles reports on the Malilangwe Trust and safari company Singita's attempts to reverse the declinemore...
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