Six reasons to become an urban beekeeper
Zion Lights
19th April, 2012
Urban beekeeping will help boost the UK's declining bee population. Here are six reasons to get involved
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TAKE ACTION: Support Friends of the Earth's National Bee Action Plan
Mark Briggs
11th April, 2012
In China, pear trees have had to be pollinated by hand after bees were wiped out by industrial farming. Now FOE have launched a petition to get the UK government to help halt the decline in Britain's own bee population
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TAKE ACTION to stop Asia Pulp and Paper's logging in Indonesia's tiger rainforests
Priyanka Mogul
7th March, 2012
Greenpeace's undercover investigation accused Asia Pulp and Paper's of flouting the logging ban on ramin trees in Indonesia, threatening the remaining population of Sumatran tigers. Greenpeace calls on you to urge companies to boycott APP products
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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
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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
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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
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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
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WildAid: How to end the illegal wildlife trade
Matilda Lee
1st December, 2011
WildAid's Steve Trent on why only robust anti-poaching operations, undercover investigations and high profile prosecutions can save the remaining wild rhinos, elephants, tigers and sharks
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The human face of conservation: bringing community and wildlife together
Ruth Styles
1st December, 2011
Across Africa, the traditional idea of safari parks is getting an overhaul - and where once locals were excluded, models with community involvement are finding long-term success
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Can the common agricultural policy save England's green and pleasant land?
Matilda Lee
11th October, 2011
As reform of the EU's agriculture policy gets underway, Miles King of the Grassland Trust tells Matilda Lee how intensive farming has all but destroyed England's 'rainforests' and why it's time we started asking for more from our farmers
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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
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Ugandans mobilise to save Mabira forest from sugarcane plantation
Esther Nakkazi
20th September, 2011
One of Africa's last remaining tropical forests, Mabira is home to precious wildlife and is an eco tourist attraction. But it is now under threat from sugarcane production. Esther Nakkazi reports
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CAMPAIGN HERO: Richard Scott of Landlife
Matilda Lee
12th July, 2011
The senior project manager at Landlife, the charity working to bring people and wildlife closer together, on 'principled' dealings with corporations and why it's important to make politicians jealous
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TAKE ACTION to protect Britain's bees
Matilda Lee
5th July, 2011
Sign the petition to ban neonicotinoids in the UK and help safeguard Britain's threatened bee population
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Dr. Wallace J. Nichols: conservation travel can help save endangered wildlife
Deborah Bassett
29th June, 2011
Marine biologist, lecturer, ocean ambassador and founder of several conservation initiatives, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols speaks to Deborah Bassett about the benefits of wildlife tourism, saving baby turtle eggs and an 112 day trek along the US west coast
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TAKE ACTION to save the UK's peat bogs
Matilda Lee
28th June, 2011
Be an eco-friendly gardener and make a promise to be peat-free
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TAKE ACTION to stop the illegal bushmeat trade
Matilda Lee
1st June, 2011
The multi-million dollar trade in bushmeat is one of the greatest threats to tropical wildlife. Chimpanzees are on the front line of this devastating trade with less than 300,000 in the wild. A new campaign aims to save these endangered creatures
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Raoul du Toit: Saving Zimbabwe's black rhino
Matilda Lee
31st May, 2011
Despite increased poaching threats, a difficult political situation, drought and climate change, Goldman Prize Winner Raoul du Toit has pioneered a new approach in community stakeholding to save the black rhino
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RENCTAS: the Brazilian NGO on the frontline of the war on animal trafficking
Giovana Zilli
11th February, 2011
RENCTAS and its fearless leader Raulff Lima are taking on Brazil's lucrative - and dangerous - black market in wildlife, reports Giovana Zilli
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Environmental Investigation Agency: meet the original eco spooks
Matilda Lee
18th January, 2011
The EIA has been at the forefront of investigative campaigning for over 25 years, tackling the illegal wildlife trade, timber trafficking and ozone-depleting CFCs. Matilda Lee gets a debriefing
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