Austrian timber company Schweighofer is linked to large-scale illegal logging which accounts for half of Romania's timber production. An EIA investigation finds that almost all the illegal timber ends up in the company's mills.
… Austrian timber giant ransacking Romania's forests The Ecologist | 21st October 2015 News Romania Austria Forests Corporations Regulation EU romania-forests-cut.jpg Austrian timber company …
The rainforest habitat of chimpanzees and other great apes is being destroyed by the expansion of palm oil projects in central Africa, according to new evidence from Greenpeace.
… Palm oil wiping out Africa's great ape rainforests The Ecologist | 24th February 2015 … millions of people. The conservation of these forests is vital in the fight against climate … enough. Current biofuels policy is destroying forests, sending food prices soaring and may …
Just as Indonesia's forests are going up in flames, in part as a result of illegal logging on a massive scale, the country's Trade Minister has issued a regulation that would rubber stamp exports of illegal timber - also undermining a timber agreement with the EU that's due to come into force next month.
… | 3rd November 2015 News Indonesia EU Forests Trade Law log-truck-cut.jpg Just as Indonesia's forests are going up in flames, in part as a …
Greece's economic woes will never be solved by merely moving money around the banking system, writes Oliver Tickell. The lasting solution is to restore native forests to her barren hills and mountains, invest in large-scale solar power to energise Europe, and create an examplar of sustainable development for our global future.
… | 7th July 2015 Comment Greece EU Finance Forests greece-forest-stream-cut.jpg Greece's … The lasting solution is to restore native forests to her barren hills and mountains, … country and her people depend. Rebuilding the forests Any visitor to Greece will surely have …
Rainforests around the world and the wildlife they sustain have a rosier future after the European Parliament voted to limit the growth of biofuels such as palm oil in the transport sector.
… The Ecologist | 28th April 2015 News Biofuels Forests Food Farming EU Law orangutan-cut.jpg … Nick Leonard via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA). Rainforests around the world and the wildlife they … endangered wildlife species in tropical rainforests around the world. EU law makers …
The Kwegu people of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley are facing starvation because of the loss of their land to a huge sugar plantation, the destruction of their forest and the damming of the Omo river - supported by a UK, EU and World Bank funded 'aid' program.
Ethiopia: Kwegu tribe starves, victims of dam and land grabs Oliver Tickell | 13th March 2015 News Ethiopia Africa Indigenous Peoples UK EU Development Land Grabs Farming Water kwegu in cultivation …
The EU's nature directives provide effective protection for endangered species and habitats, writes Leonardo Mazza. So why the Commission's decision to 'review' and 'modernise' the laws? With its commitment to business-friendly deregulation and uninterest in the environment, the aim is surely to gut them - something only EU-wide citizens' mobilisation can prevent.
European Commission's deregulation drive threatens EU nature laws Leonardo Mazza | 11th July 2015 News EU Natural World Biodiversity Law Poland augustow-forest-cut.jpg The EU's nature directives …
Increasingly mild winters have caused an abundance of acorns and beech nuts in Europe's woodlands, writes Paul Brown, triggering a wild boar population explosion - just one of the effects of warming climate on wildlife populations.
… always had wild boar populations in their forests, they are a major cause of road … ago, but now has an estimated 150,000 in its forests. The UK also has a small but …
UNESCO's Lake Ohrid-Prespa Biosphere Reserve at Mount Galicica, Macedonia, is at risk from a raft of aggressive developments, write Elena Nikolovska & Daniel Scarry: tourism complexes, a new expressway and ski resort all threaten its tranquility and stunning diversity of wildlife, backed by loans from the EU's taxpayer-funded Bank, the EBRD.
… endemic snails to large mammal predators; and forests will be hacked down, never to return. …
Conservation projects have pulled several endangered European birds back from the brink of extinction, but habitat loss, industrial farming, over fishing and climate change all represent growing threats that requires broader and deeper change in the EU and beyond.
… alien vegetation that had overrun its native forests. Habitat restoration spearheaded by … in the EU'), which nests in mature riverine forests in Eastern Europe, is declining owing …
As Cameron appoints his cabinet, we had better get prepared for the 'green crap' that's about to be unleashed on us, writes Oliver Tickell - the return of fox-hunting, badger-culling, road building and nuclear power, the arrival of GM food and crops, more cuts to wind and solar power and the underfunding of home insulation.
… attempt to sell off government land and forests. The top-down forced sell-off of …
Greece is Europe's sandbox for the neoliberal free-for-all to follow if the EU and the US sign off on the TTIP trade and investment treaty, writes Pavlos Georgiadis. The termination of public services, the cut-price sell-off of public assets, the dismantling of environmental protection, the democratic closedown, the rule of corporations and finance capital ... all coming your way soon.
… of land use management and the protection of forests from construction activity. Urgent …
The raft of 'free trade' agreements under negotiation represents a massive seizure of power by corporations, writes Joyce Nelson - effectively stripping democratic governments of their power to legislate for health, environment, labour or anything else that could reduce corporate profit. But the mainstream media are mysteriously silent.
The corporate coup d'etat: TTIP, TTP, CETA, NAFTA Joyce Nelson | 17th February 2015 News Trade Corporations USA Canada EU Media st-lawrence-river-cut.jpg Under the NAFTA trade deal, Canada is being …