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Activists return to defend Tasmania's forests as logging resumes
Ollie Milman
27th April, 2012
An agreement that would end 30 years of verbal, and often physical, confrontation over the future of the forests in the Australian state of Tasmania is teetering on the edge of collapse. Ollie Milman reports more...
Smash EDO: the inside story of activists' battle against arms giant
Richard Purssell and Jan Goodey
20th March, 2012
A decade of protest has seen a war of words between police and campaigners, with allegations of undercover spies and a ground-breaking legal victory for activists after a Brighton arms factory was damaged more...
Spanish mountains under threat from open cast coal mining
Almudena Serpis
26th October, 2011
Almudena Serpis reports on the activists taking action against the expansion of coal mining in the beautiful and ecologically important Lacaiana valley more...
Conservation International 'agreed to greenwash arms company'
Tom Levitt
11th May, 2011
US environmental charity under fire for close links with controversial companies, including Cargill, Chevron, Monsanto and Shell more...
The Ecologist guide to turning 'clicktivists' into activists
Christine Ottery
25th March, 2011
Continuing our series on how to successfully campaign, Christine Ottery reports on the best ways to motivate armchair activists to take offline action - and gets tips from some of those who've pioneered new forms of protest more...
Heathrow Transition activists celebrate one year stay at community garden
The Ecologist
March 3rd, 2011
Campaigners against the third Heathrow runway and residents of the local villages Sipson, Harmondsworth and Harlington this week celebrated the anniversary of the market garden project in Sipson, 'Grow Heathrow' more...
Dow Chemical in the dock as activists confront corporate spies
Tom Levitt
25th February, 2011
Chemical giant dismisses allegations that it inflitrated Greenpeace in an effort to undermine its direct action campaigns more...
Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
15th February, 2011
Leaked documents show how three large British companies have been paying private security firm to monitor activists more...
Do aggressive and subversive police tactics put-off environmental protesters?
Tom Antebi
9th February, 2011
With the recent spate of police aggression, intimidation and infiltration of the environmental movement, the Ecologist asks if these tactics are turning people away from protests? more...
Emily Apple: 'I can't forgive Mark Kennedy's betrayal of activists'
Emily Apple
12th January,2011
The undercover policeman's apology does not repair the lives he has wrecked or help the people he has grassed up more...
Climate activist trial collapses over use of undercover police officer
Tom Antebi
10th January, 2011
The second trial of activists accused of planning to occupy Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station has collapsed after the use of undercover police officer Mark Kennedy was revealed more...
Indian activists risk death to expose illegal logging, pollution and mining
Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt
14th December, 2010
The recent death of Indian environmentalist Amit Jethva was the latest in a growing number of disturbing incidents of brutality and violence against activists, report Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt more...
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Scottish climate activists in the dock hope to set legal precedent
Ecologist
14th June, 2010
Climate activists who broke into Aberdeen Airport hope to convince jury their actions were justified in preventing larger crime of runaway climate change more...
Tackling illegal logging
Andrew Wasley
1st April, 2009
Reporting from the front-line of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at those combating illegal logging more...
Fighting for nuclear disarmament
The Ecologist
1st July, 2003
Ploughshares actions started in 1980 in the US. They have taken place in many different countries, with weapons as diverse as rifles, warships, missiles, submarines and aircraft being dismantled or damaged. more...
'Do you want to die?': environmental activists at risk
Tom Levitt
26th October, 2009
Recent abductions and threats against activists trying to prevent logging in South-East Asia are part of a worrying trend of violence against those exposing environmental issues more...
Guerrillas in our midst
Olly Zanetti
21st January, 2009
Under cover of darkness, a dedicated team of activists is slowly rescuing unloved pockets of land from botanical meltdown. Olly Zanetti meets the guerrilla gardeners lighting up London. more...Members
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