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What's happened to Guyana's rainforest deal with Norway?
Girish Gupta
25th November, 2011
Back in 2009 it was heralded as a potential model for REDD+ and reducing rates of deforestation but Norway's deal with Guyana appears to have made little progress more...
Review: Africology Intonga Amasatchi Experience
Ruth Styles
24th November, 2011
If you’ve got some serious knots that need sorting out, then the Intonga Amasatchi Experience is for you. What’s more, says Ruth Styles, Africology’s wonderfully natural approach to beauty makes it a brand to watch more...
Q&A: Wildlife documentary filmmaker, Kim Wolhuter
Ruth Styles
30th November, 2011
Playing with hyenas, hunting with cheetahs and running with wild dogs is all in a day's work for Kim Wolhuter. He tells Ruth Styles why he does it more...
Kicking back in a green Eden: a weekend in the Yorkshire Dales
Matilda Lee
24th November, 2011
From the sedum roof to the wood burning stove, Yorkshire Dales Natural Retreats combines eco-friendly innovations with serious luxury more...
The conservation quandary: can wildlife NGOs save Africa's animals?
Ian Michler
21st November, 2011
Conservation is a huge industry in Africa but wildlife populations across the continent are declining. So why isn't it working? more...
Review: Amazon exhibition at Somerset House
Ruth Styles
18th November, 2011
Sebastião Salgado and Per-Anders Pettersson’s work offers a compelling insight into a threatened way of life, says The Ecologist's Green Living Editor Ruth Styles more...
PHOTO GALLERY: Landscape Photographer of the Year
Ben Hudson
17th November, 2011
From haunting seascapes to craggy moors and emerald hills; the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards show Britain at its best more...
How to turn your garden into a winter wonderland
Hazel Sillver
16th November, 2011
Make your garden into a magical place during the cold months with berries, coloured bark and winter-flowering plants more...
Targeting the whale hunters: on patrol with Sea Shepherd
Beatrice Yannacopoulou
1st November, 2011
A volunteer crew member on the Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin ship during recent operations targeting bluefin tuna fishing and pilot whale hunting argues the organisations' activities are vital for preventing slaughter on the high seas more...
The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
Robert Phillips
28th October, 2011
Packed with wonderful photos, Jonathan Balcombe’s book is a captivating look at animal pleasure, says Robert Phillips more...
Can Asia’s large mammals be saved from extinction?
A. Christy Williams
28th October, 2011
The Javan rhino isn’t the only south east Asian mammal whose future looks bleak, says the WWF’s A. Christy Williams more...
TAKE ACTION to stop Arctic oil drilling
Hannah Corr
19th October, 2011
Greenpeace are calling for a curb on Arctic oil exploration in order to save this fragile wilderness more...
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Sami reindeer herders struggle against Arctic oil and gas expansion
Joel Tozer
19th October, 2011
Climate change and a rise in oil and gas exploration are bringing a host of problems for the indigenous Sami reindeer herders in the Arctic regions more...
Why Arctic Ocean oil drilling is a risky choice
Rick Steiner
19th October, 2011
It's not a question of ‘if' a major spill will occur in the Arctic, but ‘when and where', says conservation biologist and oil industry expert Rick Steiner more...
Putin’s Russia will lead a ‘new era of Arctic industrialisation’
Tom Levitt
19th October, 2011
The isolation of the white wilderness is coming to an end. Scientists and activists are urging caution but Russia is leading an urgent rush to exploit the Arctic’s oil and gas reserves. Tom Levitt reports more...
How oil and corruption have become so closely linked
Eifion Rees
19th October, 2011
As a new oil-fever gathers pace in Arctic countries such as Greenland the lesson from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees reports more...
Arctic will become 'more of a Mediterranean than a frozen border'
Rosie Spinks
October 19th, 2011
The Arctic was once out of reach to anyone but intrepid explorers. Today it's a natural resource battle ground. Arctic expert Charles Emmerson tells the Ecologist what's changed more...
A day in the life of...Nicola Peel, Amazon activist and filmmaker
Jan Goodey
5th October, 2011
Nicola Peel's new film Blood of the Amazon tells the story of the world's largest environmental lawsuit and investigates how the oil industry threatens a fragile rainforest environment. By Jan Goodey more...
Our sugarcane is greener than your corn: Brazil takes on US biofuel industry
Beth McLoughlin
4th October, 2011
Brazil claims to have clamped down on slash and burn tactics, slave labour and links to deforestation as it seeks to gain foothold in Europe’s lucrative biofuels market more...
Ecologist Film Unit
Investigative films on key environmental and climate change issues from the Ecologist Film Unit more...
Dwindling forests, dwindling futures – how forest dwellers being ignored by the Bangladeshi Government
A new Ecologist-produced film - to be screened by campaigners from the Forest People's Programme at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan - highlights how the rights of indigenous peoples and their sustainable use of natural resources are being ignored by the Bangladesh Government more...
Selling The Sea – revealing Indonesia’s little-known plans to privatise huge swathes of coastline for aquaculture
Jim Wickens
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline more...
The Greed of Feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon
Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens
1st December, 2008
A major investigation by the Ecologist reveals a host of unreported environmental and social costs linked to the fishmeal production industry in Peru more... Giri Raja: the Forest King – reporting on the “wonder-chicken” hailed as a solution to feeding India’s poor
Andrew Wasley
7th August, 2008
It was bred to aid the rural poor, but one bird is also helping break industrialised farming’s stranglehold on India. Andrew Wasley meets the remarkable Giriraja more...
TAKE ACTION to save the red squirrel
Ecologist
29th September, 2011
The Red Squirrel Appeal aims to raise money to develop a vaccine for a deadly disease that is quickly destroying the remaining population more...Members
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