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
… TAKE ACTION to stop Asia Pulp and Paper's logging in Indonesia's … Natural World Wildlife Sumatra Tigers Asia Pulp And Paper Indonesia Deforestation … Greenpeace's undercover investigation accused Asia Pulp and Paper's of flouting the logging …
As London Fashion Week concludes, Dr Charudutt Mishra explains how demand for cashmere is affecting Central Asian wildlife, and how enlisting the support of local people will be essential for the future of snow leopard conservation.......
… how demand for cashmere is affecting Central Asian wildlife, and how enlisting the support … conservation....... The mountains of Central Asia are where the endangered snow leopards … and several other species of the Central Asian mountains. The surging global demand for …
The Environmental Investigation Agency's forestry campaigner Faith Doherty welcomes a new report by the World Bank calling for stronger action to stop forestry corruption, but says more support is needed to help activists follow the money trail
… the real situation on the ground in East Asia, naming names and exposing the … HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE TAKE ACTION to stop Asia Pulp and Paper's logging in Indonesia's … Greenpeace's undercover investigation accused Asia Pulp and Paper's of flouting the logging …
The construction of the Don Sahong Dam in Laos PDR must be halted until full information on the project's impacts - in particular the fate of millions of fish that migrate each year through the Hou Sahong channel now being dammed - has been published, writes the Save the Mekong Coalition in this open letter sent today to the project developers.
… International (United States and Southeast Asia) Fisheries Action Coalition Team … on the Global South (Thailand and Southeast Asia) GreenID (Vietnam) International Rivers (United States and Southeast Asia) Law and Policy of Sustainable …
A store like Walmart can wield more power than a country over a logging company - especially in the global South. But what's good for Walmart is not always good for the planet. Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister outline 7 key tools for retailers to limit the impacts of timber consumption
… World markets as well as capture emerging Asian markets. One result is Russia, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Central Africa, and … South. Less than 1 percent of forests in Asia and Africa, just 1.6 percent of forests …
Some 60 million people depend on the Mekong River for their livelihoods but sea level rise and severe weather puts the area at risk, as Gratianne Quade's unique film shows
… Change Flooding Mekong River Hydropower Dams Asia Salinisation 1mekongimg7.jpg Some 60 … Supporters of a controversial dam in one of Asia's poorest countries say it will bring …
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
… China, Vietnam and other parts of Southeast Asia, which are the major destinations of much … tells Ruth Styles why he does it COMMENT Can Asia’s large mammals be saved from extinction? … The Javan rhino isn’t the only south east Asian mammal whose future looks bleak, says …
As indigenous activists opposing hydropower dams on their territories gather this weekend in the rainforests of Sarawak, Malaysia, they have good news to celebrate, writes Rod Harbinson: a giant dam on the Baram river has been put on hold. But the forests are still being logged, local people have been stripped of land rights, and a programme of 12 giant dams is still official policy.
… Brazil, India, Honduras, and across Southeast Asia are gathering on the island of Borneo to … state pension funds. The controversial dam, Asia's second largest outside China, displaced … He has particular experience of the Southeast Asian region where he has documented and …
You don't need a garden to grow your own fruit and veg. If you're a budding horticulturalist with no space to swing a trowel, here are some creative - and sometimes bizarre - ideas from around the world
… with a flood of cheap canned mushrooms from Asia, the industry turned towards fresh market … in the cool, dim and humid forests of Asia. Cultivators had developed ways of … and uses waste material.' Hanging low From Asian exotica in Australia to Tokyo, which I'm …
A year ago Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, struck central Philippines leaving tens of thousands of people dead and missing, millions homeless and livelihoods destroyed. Today climate-affected communities worldwide are demanding change.
… for their food and incomes. In the South Asian region, frequent and more intense … People's Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) | Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and … Sovereignty (PCFS) | Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN-AP) | Roots for Equity, …
New rules come into force today that require big UK companies to make their carbon emissions public but - explains Miriam Ross - this won't put an end to the environmental degradation and breach of human rights caused by the UK-financed coal mining boom in Kalimantan, Borneo.......
… fossil fuels to the economic giants of East Asia. And the vast majority of the country’s …
The Philippines is taking a huge leap forward in the climate wars, writes Ellen Baker, with the world's 'top 50' energy giants standing accused of violating international human rights law as a result of their fossil fuel production. This is the first such investigation ever to take place anywhere in the world - and it just opened up a whole new front of corporate vulnerability.
… (CHR). It was led by Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the Philippine Rural Construction …
The Commission's refusal to 'register' a European Citizens Initiative demanding an end to negotiations over the TTIP trade deal is more than just an affront to the 'democratic values' that Europe is meant to represent, write Mary Fitzgerald & Michael Efler. It is also unlawful, and the legal challenge filed today at the ECJ is richly deserved.
… breathe. (And it gets better, TPP is the US-Asia Pacific counterpart .) Activists and even …
There is nothing endearing about the truth behind the 'cute' YouTube videos of Slow Loris, a critically endangered species. Still, video clips of species of conservation concern may have a positive flip side ...
… in the case of the slow loris in Southeast Asia, we always knew that the illegal animal …
This month the UN is meeting to enact binding global rules on the conduct of business and transnational corporations, writes Sam Cossar-Gilbert, reversing the trend for increasing business empowerment in TTP, TTIP and TISA. The new UN Human Rights Treaty aims to provide justice for the victims of corporate criminality anywhere in the world.
… by the security force of a subsidiary of Asia Pulp and Paper, an Indonesian company …
Blacks, Indigenous peoples and Palestinians are all engaged in a single struggle against a racist empire that systematically robs, colonises, impoverishes, terrorises, enslaves, imprisons, tortures and murders its subject populations. Their struggle for liberation is one, and will ultimately vanquish as the empire collapses from within.
… to racist oppression. As people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arab World see the …
Phillip Manbridge, CEO of Care for the Wild International, introduces the 'No Photos, Please!' campaign, which forces us to look beyond the adorable faces of captive animals we encounter abroad and ask - what is the real story here?
… re-wind a bit. In the jungles of southern Asia, the primate known as the slow loris has …
A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
… on companies operating in Africa and South Asia and CDC started making direct investments … new investments only in Africa and South Asia, and investing directly as well as …
Could your fashion style be destroying forests and driving orang-utans towards extinction? Nicole Rycroft shows how cellulose fibres used in textiles are a major cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. But your choices can make all the difference ...
… North America, to the factories of South East Asia, the pulp mills in China and Canada that …
Supported by state and national governments, palm oil plantations are advancing over the rainforest hills of Sabah, Malaysia, writes Sophie Chao. In their way: the indigenous Murut of Bigor, whose culture, livelihood and very lives are under threat as forests and farms fall to chainsaws and bulldozers, enriching loggers and distant investors beyond the dreams of avarice.
… of indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia. Books: Sophie is co-editor of 'Conflict … the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia ' (2011). This article was developed as …
Khushi Kabir was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 for her work at Nijera Kori, which has helped organise over 175,000 landless people in Bangladesh's rural areas since 1980
… NEWS ANALYSIS Shipbreaking: clampdown in Asia will send it to Africa Following our …
The plans currently under consideration for saving forests might help the trees, but they could ride roughshod over indigenous communities. Here are some ways to change that
… Central Africa, and South and South East Asia to help them secure their rights, build …