There's strong public support for protecting marine wildlife, writes Horatio Morpurgo - so why aren't politicians championing the cause? Labour and Tories alike fear to challenge the big fishing companies that have come to believe they own Britain's offshore waters and seabed. Now it's up to use to prove they're wrong.
… To protect our seas, first we must reclaim them … There's strong public support for protecting marine wildlife, writes Horatio … boats. Lyme Bay - the UK's first major Marine Protected Area But the meeting mattered in …
Remember when the UK was the 'dirty man of Europe'? What has changed since then, writes Caroline Lucas, is our membership of the EU - which has made us raise our environmental performance on everything from fisheries to air pollution, nature conservation, clean bathing waters and renewable energy. Leave, and it could all go into reverse.
… Remain in the EU to protect our environment Caroline Lucas | 20th … and to ensure that people's rights are protected - at work and as consumers. We also … so clearly as the European Union's role in protecting our environment. In many ways, it's …
Legislation put forward by Brazil's re-elected President Dilma Rousseff would open up to 10% of protected areas to mining, writes Luke Parry. The effect would be to gut nature conservation in Brazil, already in a perilous state due to underfunding and growing pressure for the development of mines, dams, farms and plantations.
… Dilma Rousseff would open up to 10% of protected areas to mining, writes Luke Parry. … of new plans to allow mining and dams in protected areas and indigenous lands. … interests by allowing 10% of even strictly protected areas to be mined. While the …
Scotland's network of marine reserves doubled in area today with the designation of 30 new marine reserves. The move has been welcomed by green groups who have long campaigned on the issue - but they warn: this is where the real work begins.
… today gave the go-ahead for 30 new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The bold move will double the area of protected waters around Scotland, protecting a further 12% of Scotland's seas. …
After 99 days of Donald Trump's presidency, his only achievement is to pursue his anti-climate, anti-environment agenda with a cruel passion that is already alienating a clear majority of Americans, writes Jeremy Brecher. The Peoples Climate March tomorrow will signal the strength of the fightback. And while there will be no overnight victory, a national, indeed a global movement is forming to resist Trump and bring the age of fossil fuels to its long overdue end.
… They have already cancelled the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, … on public lands, and gutted regulations that protect local people and environments against … doing 'too little' rather than 'too much' to protect the environment. Moreover, 61% of …
2014 Goldman Prize winner Suren Gazaryan took on the Kremlin in trying to block illegal development at the Sochi Olympics and on the Black Sea coast, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. Forced to flee to Germany, he can finally get down to researching his beloved bats.
… Russian eco-hero: how protecting bats became a 'criminal conspiracy' … government land grabs and the destruction of protected areas in the Krasnodar region in the … of this, Gazaryan successfully reinstated the protected status of the Utrish Reserve and …
The new Commission may have dropped environmental protection from its 2015 work plan - but it's pressing ahead with a new Directive to protect corporate secrecy, threatening consumers, journalists, whistleblowers, researchers and workers.
… new Commission may have dropped environmental protection from its 2015 work plan - but it's pressing ahead with a new Directive to protect corporate secrecy, threatening … looked at by the European Parliament wants to protect companies' 'trade secrets'. But it …
Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
… TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability … are prepared to drop hard won environmental protections to secure a deal, while measures …
African governments, ignoring the protests of their farmers and civil society, this week agreed an oppressive 'plant variety protection protocol' that will open up their countries to commercial seed monopolists, while limiting farmers rights to save, use, exchange, replant, improve, distribute and sell the seeds they have developed over countless generations.
… sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal Alliance for Food Sovereignty … this week agreed an oppressive 'plant variety protection protocol' that will open up their … a harmonised regional legal framework for the protection of plant breeders' rights. The …
The House of Commons has passed a government amendment to strengthen environmental protection in the EU Withdrawal Bill. However, critics said it would still result in lower protection than the UK has currently, writes CATHERINE EARLY
… Brexit bill amendment on environmental protection “not good enough” Catherine Early | … amendment to strengthen environmental protection in the EU Withdrawal Bill. However, … critics said it would still result in lower protection than the UK has currently, writes …
It's high time for an independent Wildlife Protection Agency, argues Dominic Dyer. The botched badger cull shows we can no longer trust DEFRA, Natural England or the JNCC to carry out their duty to protect our wildlife.
… It's high time for an independent Wildlife Protection Agency, argues Dominic Dyer. The … or the JNCC to carry out their duty to protect our wildlife. As the last gunshots … It was time for the rapidly growing badger protection movement, now known as the "Badger …
The Labour Party has launched a new manifesto for wildlife protection, writes Angus Nurse - and a good thing too! But turning the tide for nature will take more than stricter laws and penalties. Ultimately it's about enforcement. And that means prioritising wildlife crime, committing expert officers, and providing resources.
… Wildlife protection depends on enforcement Angus Nurse … has launched a new manifesto for wildlife protection, writes Angus Nurse - and a good … and providing resources. Labour's new animal protection manifesto makes animal protection …
The impending US-UK trade deal threatens the irreversible loss of public protections on health, safety, labour and environment in both countries, writes Stephen Devlin. Last week Trump signed an executive order forcing systemic corporate deregulation - and the UK's 'pro-business' government is all too keen to go along with it.
… threatens the irreversible loss of public protections on health, safety, labour and … the bottom for the USA and UK. It puts legal protections we all depend on - to be able to … Out. No health, safety, labour, environment protections are safe What this means is that …
Disaster threatens England's nightingales, already down 90% in 40 years, if ministers fail to block a plan to build 5,000 homes on SSSI breeding site in Kent. But as Robin McKie writes, the government is showing no sign of intervening, as campaigners warn of an 'open season' for development on our most important wildlife sites.
… at risk as housebuilding threatens 'protected' SSSI breeding site Robin McKie the … ornithologists, the best site in Britain for protecting the songbird - at Lodge Hill in … commercial exploitation of hundreds of other protected environmental sites across the …
The the creation of almost a million sq.km of the South Pacific as a fully protected marine area builds on a long Conservative tradition of protecting the natural environment, write Nick Hurd & Zac Goldsmith - and as factory trawlers close in on Pitcairn's pristine waters, the initiative could not have been more timely.
… million sq.km of the South Pacific as a fully protected marine area builds on a long Conservative tradition of protecting the natural environment, write Nick … for inspiration if you're concerned about protecting the natural world. However, in …
The Green Party manifesto, published today, pledges to enact long overdue restrictions on the use of toxic pesticides to protect rural residents and children from adverse health impacts, writes Georgina Downs. Now all political parties must follow where the Greens have led.
… on the use of toxic pesticides to protect rural residents and children from … contains one especially welcome promise - to protect people from exposure to toxic … pesticides. On page 14 it pledges to: "Secure protection of rural residents and communities …
As the movement to 'delist' Grizzly bears from protection under the Endangered Species Act gathers pace in US states and the Fish & Wildlife Service, two National Park superintendents have spoken out for the bears', writes Louisa Willcox. The hunters and the FWS may be furious, but the change of approach enjoys strong support from a public who have come to love their local bears.
… the movement to 'delist' Grizzly bears from protection under the Endangered Species Act … these bears lose Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections-prospectively as soon as this … Grizzlies, is pushing removal of ESA protections as hard and fast as it can and, …
Britain's bees are under threat from Brexit and moves to allow farmers to use banned bee-harming 'neonictinoid' pesticides, warns Dave Timms, Bees Campaigner with Friends of the Earth. With 20 species extinct since 1900 and a further 35 under threat, how much more can our bees take?
… with cleaner beaches and air, and better protection for our wildlife. And Brexit would … under threat of extinction. None are properly protected by law and Europe-wide, nearly one … ten wild bee species face extinction. Habitat protection However, this picture would be …
We need a renewable energy revolution, an end to fracking, no new nuclear power, efficient homes, and the break up of our energy cartels, writes Jeremy Corbyn, All that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP trade deal with the US, clean air to breathe, and massive investment in public transport. Is there anything not to like?
… writes Jeremy Corbyn, All that, and strong protection for wildlife and oceans, no TTIP … in our collective interests and those of our protecting our planet. Promoting the well … dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature." The 'greenest government …
Europe's most important laws for wildlife, the EU's Nature Directives, are under threat in from a recently launched 'review', writes Martin Harper. The official purpose is to make the laws more effective, but in reality it's all part of the Commission's agenda to strip away regulations that impede business in its pursuit of profit.
… Harper | 12th May 2015 Comment Conservation Protected Areas Natural World EU Law Politics … primarily a flood risk management project protecting 300 homes from coastal flooding. … visit yourself, go and see the little terns protected by the Birds Directive at nearby …
A huge raft of environmental reforms is promised in the Labour Party's draft manifesto, writes Oliver Tickell. Among the highlights: a ban on fracking; a clean energy policy based on renewables and efficiency; no commitment to new nuclear power; to meet our Paris Agreement obligations on climate; to give companies a legal obligation to protect the environment; to retain all EU environment laws post-Brexit; and multilateral nuclear disarmament.
… to give companies a legal obligation to protect the environment; to retain all EU … transition to cleaner fuels and will help to protect existing jobs as part of the future … We will support further nuclear projects and protect nuclear workers' jobs and pensions. …
An ancient grassland SSSI at Rampisham could be saved following a government decision to put an 'hold' notice on the West Dorset Council's planning consent for a huge solar farm, writes Martin Harper. Now Eric Pickles must 'call in' the case to a public inquiry, or set a truly dreadful precedent for our most precious nature sites.
… Pickles must protect Rampisham Down SSSI from solar farm … security fences, something precious remained, protected from the changing world outside. … sites that are as the nature equivalent of protected buildings, the likes of Stonehenge …
The EU's Nature Directives have been doing a great job of protecting Europe's most threatened species and habitats and building up wildlife numbers, writes Catherine Weller, and the UK knows it. But now it's the Directives themselves that are under threat. Other EU countries are standing up for them - but not the UK.
… Directives have been doing a great job of protecting Europe's most threatened species … nine European countries called on the EU to protect two key pieces of nature legislation: … wildlife law. The Habitats Directive alone protects over 1,000 animal and plant species …
Brazil's extreme right wing government is preparing to open up the rainforest territories of dozens of uncontacted indigenous tribes to 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive, according to information received by Survival International, which warns: 'The reality is these cuts could sanction genocide.'
… 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive, according … genocide.' All the government units currently protecting Brazil's uncontacted tribes from … affairs department, perform a vital role in protecting uncontacted territories from …