This video explores the shocking and lucrative industry of canned hunting, which astonishingly remains legal.....
… Lions bred to be shot in South Africa's 'canned hunting' industry Patrick … There are now more captive lions in South Africa than wild ones, and many of these … farm in North Eastern Free State, South Africa, to investigate the relationship …
Dominic Dyer reports on a long overdue co-ordinated effort by the international community to take action against the global industry which is slaughtering Africa’s elephants......
… Will the world act to save the African elephant before it's too late? Dominic … the global industry which is slaughtering Africa’s elephants...... In March 2010, I … lives on the line to protect elephants in Africa from a surge in poaching. The article …
Wildlife crime is a multi-million dollar globalised business, ranked fourth in transnational crime in the world, with an international network sprawling across continents. Verity Largo reports from Tanzania ...
… Largo | 16th November 2013 News Natural World Africa Hunting Poaching Wildlife Crime … on poaching. The conservation world in East Africa is highly political, and people must … area rest on not being too critical of East African governments. The tourist industry …
In the second of a three part blog in which Les Carlisle joins a team of translocation experts, he travels across two Southern African countries in 48 hours with the aid of armed guards to safely deliver 6 rhino to their new homes ...
… Rhinos without borders: across Africa Les Carlisle | 13th November 2013 … Rhinos Conservation Ivory Natural World Africa rhino.jpg In the second of a three part … experts, he travels across two Southern African countries in 48 hours with the aid of …
The Gaia Foundation just launched its latest film - Seeds of Sovereignty. Sharon Garfinkel attended the launch - and urges all those interested food and farming, in Africa and elsewhere, to watch it.
… 13th December 2013 Reviews Seeds Food Farming Africa seeds-of-sovereignty.png The Gaia … all those interested food and farming, in Africa and elsewhere, to watch it. Wonderfully … the world. With its vivid images of Africa, it makes for compelling viewing and …
Botswana has been accused of sacrificing the Kalahari, one of the world's most precious wildlife reserves, to commercial fracking while ignoring the concerns of environmentalists and communities who could lose access to scarce water.
… David Smith | 18th November 2013 News Africa Fracking Fossil Fuels Gas Indigenous … of fierce debate in America, Britain, South Africa and countries around the world, with … than a decade, Botswana , lauded as one of Africa's most stable democracies, has been …
20,000 square kilometres of Ethiopia are suitable for grid-based wind power generation, with a total capacity of 100 GW.
… Africa's biggest wind farm opens Oliver … Tickell | 26th October 2013 News Energy Africa Electricity Ethiopia Renewables Wind … generation, with a total capacity of 100 GW. Africa's biggest wind farm, at Ashegoda in …
In the first of a three part blog in which Les Carlisle joins a team of translocation experts, he discovers the buzz of darting and blindfolding a rhino, whilst considering the absurd fact that their very existence is threatened due to the growth of an inert keratinous material on their heads ...
… Rhinos Conservation Ivory Natural World Africa 718214 (1).jpg The Rhinos Without … is now the Hluhluwe Game Reserve in South Africa were able to grow and account for over 400 separate populations in 9 African countries. This kind of success …
Donating unwanted bicycles helps others and the environment. Hazel Sillver reports on a new partner scheme between Re~Cycle and Halfords
… 5th April 2013 Ethical Living Re-cycle Bikes Africa Aid bike_ambulace_namibia.preview.jpg A … unwanted bikes and then ship them to Africa. While we have the luxury of cars and … to work, and to fetch food and water. A South African study found that some children were …
Apartheid may have fallen in South Africa. But in Australia John Pilger finds an equally cruel and pervasive racism against the country's 'aboriginal' people. He explains the background to his powerful new film, Utopia ...
… Apartheid may have fallen in South Africa. But in Australia John Pilger finds an … campaigner against apartheid in South Africa, where I had reported from behind the … were corralled in conditions I had seen in Africa and India. One outside tap trickled …
China led the reclamation of the largest abandoned rice farm in Mozambique, with the blessing of the authorities. But now the company involved is accused of land grabbing and displacing thousands. Cecilia Anesi and Andrea Fama report
… | 30th November 2013 News Land Grabbing China Africa Rice Food And Farming News … Chinese 'land grabbing' across swathes of Africa, the Xai-Xai case is growing … onward, Wanbao, through the subsidiary Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development, set about …
As investors flock to the resource-rich but still poverty-stricken African nation of Mozambique, Thembi Mutch warns that - as usual - it won't be the Mozambiquans who reap the multi billion dollar rewards of an economic boom in what remains the world's second poorest country......
… Thembi Mutch | 27th September 2013 News Africa Resources Economics Politics … the resource-rich but still poverty-stricken African nation of Mozambique, Thembi Mutch … from one of the smartest five star hotels in Africa. Dom Perignon champagne at $320 a …
Deborah Doane believes that the idea of development should be rooted in empathy and solidarity....
… 2013 Other Society Aid Development radi-aid-africa-for-norway (1).jpg The Radi-Aid … to care. There's heat enough for Norway, if Africans would share!" These are the lyrics … of a song in a glossy music video, sung by African musicians, featuring compelling images …
Plant a paradise of nectar in September, and next year the butterflies will come a-flapping, says Hazel Sillver......
… a 9,000 mile journey, which encompasses Africa and the Arctic Plant a paradise of … island in the autumn and travels south, to Africa. Last year scientists discovered that … mile (14,400km) journey, which encompasses Africa and the Arctic, is undertaken by up to …
Soco International PLC, a British oil company, plans to explore for oil in Virunga - Africa's oldest national park, in DRC-Congo. Local WWF campaigner Raymond Lumbuenamo reports on the threats to Mountain gorillas and other precious wildlife.
… plans to explore for oil in Virunga - Africa's oldest national park, in DRC-Congo. … It is full of wonders found nowhere else. As Africa's first national park, founded in 1925, … standards. Environmental risks to Africa's most biodiverse park include habitat …
Representatives of the Basarwa or Bushman peoples of Botswana will make 2014 the year to step up their fight to end structural oppression of their communities. Joanna Eede reports ...
… are the indigenous peoples of southern Africa . Once largely hunter-gatherers, they … victimized peoples in the history of southern Africa. In 1961, The Central Kalahari Game … Tsila, some of the last hunting Bushmen in Africa. Today they are fighting for their …
Dr. Mike Norton-Griffiths asks whether the Ivory Wars can only end with species extinction, or whether a peace agreement could actually be reached........
… recent resurgence of elephant poaching across Africa has generated much international … impose unacceptable collateral damage within Africa. Because of the Ivory Wars mentality, Africans are killing Africans in the name of …
Amnesty International report calls for urgent action to tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. This follows two Ecologist investigations into 'slave labour' connected to the Italian tomato and orange harvests. Andrew Wasley reports
… the exploitation of workers from sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and Asia carrying out seasonal or … Amnesty researchers found that many of the African migrants working in the Caserta area …
The tropical tourist destination is at the centre of a dispute over the farming of green sea turtles after animal welfare campaigners launched a campaign to shut the world's only facility rearing the animals for human consumption
… INVESTIGATION Is there room for wildlife as Africa grapples with development? How poaching … change and population growth all threaten Africa's unique wildlife …
Katarzyna Nowak and her colleagues reignite the debate on whether a regulated legal trade in ivory can ever be a mechanism advantageous to elephant conservation.
… and to a letter (November 22, 2012) by IUCN African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) … – represents 20% of illegal ivory leaving Africa (10% has previously been used), then … ivory stockpile (among the largest held in Africa) collected from 1989 until the present, …
Rowan Williams, the new Master of Magdalene College, talks to Sharon Garfinkel of Resurgence Trust.....
… doing unexpected and creative things in, say, Africa or the Pacific. I think of the time I … Looking at the farming projects in parts of Africa, especially Kenya - I learned quite a …
Missed the talks the first time round? Read the written abstracts from Gaia's events 2007 - 2009, including highlights from talks given by Polly Higgins, Vandana Shiva and Resurgence & Ecologist Editor-in-Chief Satish Kumar.
… Britain - February 2008 Dr. Nigel Crawhall - Africa's Indigenous People and Climate Change … Ng'ang'a Thiong'o - Ecological Governance: Africa Learns from the Colombian Amazon - June … November 2009 Colin Campbell - Learning From African Cosmology - 2009 …
Mining and oil drilling are essential to the industrial world - but they are also linked with severe environmental and social damage, not to mention corruption. Clare Short, chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, spoke to Alex Stevenson.
… a development instrument, mostly targeted at African countries during the commodity price … involved. The original big push was in Africa. "But then the Brazils and South Africas said, 'this is the north telling the …
Robin Maynard tells the Ecologist why he is trying to encourage environmental NGOs to have the courage to move beyond a politically correct stance on issues of population growth and really engage with the big questions......
… inevitable. Two million women in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and other parts of the Arab … of parents has already been born (70% of Africa's population is between 15-30 years of … least humans. Dr Eliyah Zulu, director of the African Institute for Development Policy based …