SUSPENSION OF BURMA SANCTIONS MUST BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REFORM

LONDON: The European Union’s suspension of sanctions against Burma, which will include lifting the prohibition on direct trade of timber and wood products to EU markets, should be an opportunity to introduce meaningful reform directly benefiting the country’s people. EU Continue Reading

‘EXTREME ENDEMIC CRUELTY’ A HALLMARK OF FAROE ISLANDS WHALING

Environmental Investigation Agency co-director Jennifer Lonsdale has been a leading cetacean campaigner for over three decades; EIA was actually formed in 1984 just one month after she and fellow co-founder Dave Currey travelled to the Faroe Islands to document and Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: Porbeagle Shark

  Photo credit: S. Campana/Canadian Shark Research Lab   The Porbeagle, Lamna nasus, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. It is found worldwide in temperate and cold-temperate waters. Subpopulations in the Northeast Atlantic and Continue Reading

Ivory Conflict Escalates as Africa and EU go head to head: Your Tuna for Our Elephants

Support protection of our elephants and we’ll help you protect your bluefin tuna, 23 African countries told the European Union on Friday. By contrast, if the EU does not back their case, they threatened to oppose Europe’s proposal to ban Continue Reading