World Ecology Newswire Archive

It is a huge disappointment. The United Nations wildlife conference in Qatar this week, where delegates from 175 countries gathered to make decisions on the protection of recently endangered species, has pulled grey clouds over the world of conservation. The CITES meeting failed to add the threatened Atlantic bluefin tuna to the Appendix I listing of the CITES legislation, which would have resulted in a ban on the international trade of the fish.

West Midlands Climate Action presents … The Huntington Lane Fossil Fools weekend convergence

A large number of trees have been felled at the proposed open cast coal mining site at Huntington Lane near Telford in Shropshire. A small camp has now been established on the Surface Mine Site (SMS)  http://bit.ly/94Ogz0 and people are urgently needed. As part of Fossil Fools day West Midlands Climate Action are putting on a weekend gathering from the 1st-4th April  http://bit.ly/cvrV2X

At around two o’clock in the morning on March 10th a group of unidentified armed people entered the Tupinambá Native American Village Serra do Padeiro in the South of the Brazilian state of Bahia and brutalized, threatened with murder, drugged and abducted the local Chief Babau.

Many universities are polluted by the money given to them.

clashes in Volos and Xanthi, NationalBank Occupations in Komotini, Occupations in Athens (note: as long as the "measures" law isn't published it's not legal, therefore the workers of the NationalPrintFactory occupied their workplace, the other one is occupied by the sacked workers of olymic airs)
AND SO ON, strikes continue, bigger one on 8th and General Strike on 11th

Shepway District Council (Folkestone) gave tiny Lydd airport the go ahead for expansion plans after a 7 hour meeting last night.

March 2nd, actions are planned across the world. We call on all of you to organise as many actions as possible in front of Austrian embassies, consulates or other diplomatic missions. Additionally, demonstrations are to take place in Vienna on February 27 and in Wiener Neustadt on the day of the trials opening hearing on March 2nd.

Southern Ocean, 2nd February 2010

Dateline: Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 12:00-13:30, Sat 13 Feb 10 – On the opening day of the Winter Olympics in Canada, around 50 folk mobilised by the UK Tar Sands Network and London Rising Tide partook of sporting events of a sharper, more satirical sort: The Canadian Tar Sands Oil-ympics. With Canada House as a backdrop, among the Canadian-state-funded ballyhoo of big screen live feeds and 5-ring ice sculptures, we staged tug-o-war, relay race and street curling events to help highlight the biggest single industrial climate crime on Earth: the Canadian-state-backed toxic rape of tar sands deposits in Alberta, and the consequent death wave decimating the boreal forest, its flora, fauna, water courses and indigenous First Nations people.

To secure America, a president must have the courage to dismantle what, in the past, has been proclaimed as the foundation of our survival, but in reality presents us with the seeds of our destruction—nuclear weapons.

Back in April 2009, in a speech delivered in Prague, US President Barack Obama articulated his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons.

Since that time, however, the Obama administration has offered very little of substance to push this vision forward.

Yer Dirt Digging, Muck-Raking Rag (Feb/March) - Out Now on the streets of Brighton...

Calling him a “terrorist” and following through on his threat to more than quadruple the recommended sentence, judge Dee Benson Thursday sentenced William Viehl to two years in federal prison. It is the first sentence handed down under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

Residants at development control forum meeting to discuss the propsed BLISS Lab or UKCMRI projetc were stunned as a photo of a Peter Pan photo was used as background for the UKCMRI "big guns" including sir Paul Nurse of the Rockefeller Insititute, Sir Les head of the MRC, Camden council, John Cooper and a group of seriously angry Camden residents. Tempers flared at the meeting.

Debating radical political culture in Germany, the UK and beyond...

Have received this call-out from Italy, read and support if you can/want

The Tortoise Protection Group have conned a number of Animal Rights Activists into helping, raising and donating money. Their website promotes the breeding of captive tortoises as pets. There are also a number of dodgy articles about very expensive stolen tortoises. It is alarming genuine AR activists that other "AR" activists are supporting this group, believed to be criminals promoting a con.

28 years after the Falklands War the real reason for the war is emerging: OIL

There are plans to build a high level [3] virus containment facility in Kings Cross, Camden alongside St Pancras International behind the British Libary close to an environmentally protected area, Camley Conservation Area. There is a "last chance" public development forum where the public can ask questions & speak out against the lab. Wednesday Feb 10th 2009 6.30-8.30pm.

14th-27th January

"MEAT IS MURDER" PAINTED ON BUTCHER SHOP (Sweden)
WALLS OF MEAT COMPANY PAINTED (Australia)
22 BIRDS FREED (Uruguay)
FREEDOM FOR 8 DOVES (Uruguay)
THREE GOATS RESCUED (Italy)
COCA-COLA TARGETED BY ALF/ELF (Mexico)
PROCTER & GAMBLE PRODUCT TAMPERING (Spain)
SMOKE BOMBS TOSSED INSIDE MAX MARA SHOP (Italy)
KFC TARGETED (Ireland)
SABOTAGE AT MEAT RESTAURANT (Chile)
EXPLOSIVE ATTACKS AGAINST BANK AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (Mexico)

23rd December - 13th January

BROKEN WINDOWS AT FUR RETAILER (Sweden)
100 HENS LIBERATED (UK)
MEAT, DAIRY TRUCKS VANDALIZED (Italy)
ROADHOUSE GRILL DAMAGED BY FIRE (Italy)
CAR FIRE AT HOME OF FORTRESS VICE PRESIDENT (Germany)
FUR SHOPS PAINTED (Croatia)
PAVING STONES THROWN THROUGH WINDOWS AT FUR SHOP (France)
HUNTING CENTER TRASHED (Italy)
LOCKS GLUED AT FUR SHOP, FOIE GRAS RESTAURANT (Canada)
ATTACK ON MEAT TRUCK AND PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC IN SANTIAGO (Chile)
ALF VS. ABATTOIR (France)
INCENDIARY DEVICES PLANTED AT MEAT COMPANY (France)
20 HENS RESCUED (DELAYED REPORT) (Italy)
OPEN RESCUE OF MOTHER SHEEP AND HER TWO LAMBS (Spain)
FIVE HENS LIBERATED (Mexico)
HENS LIBERATED FROM BATTERY CAGE (Israel)
INCENDIARY ATTACK ON MEAT MARKET (Chile)
HUNTER'S CARS ATTACKED (Italy)
BIRDS RESCUED FROM HUNTERS (Italy)