UK Ecology Newswire Archive
Direct Action: 8 countries and 8 days
22-10-2009 22:17
FOUR MINK FARMS RAIDED IN ONE NIGHT! (Spain)
MINK FARMER RUINED AFTER RAID (France)
OPEN SEASON ON HUNTER'S CARS (Italy)
FUR SHOP OWNER GETS A HOME VISIT (UK)
BURNING BURGER KING LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY (Mexico)
SIGN TEMPTS BEE LIBERATOR (USA)
HUNT CLUB ADVERTISEMENTS PAINTBOMBED (Ireland)
DOGS ABUSED BY HUNTERS RESCUED (Spain)
SUSANNE FUR SHOP PAINTED (Spain)
10 CHICKENS RESCUED FROM MEANINGLESS SUFFERING (Czech Republic)
BIRD LIBERATED, CAGE DESTROYED (Spain)
MAGPIE FREED FROM HUNTER'S CAGE (Spain)
Rossport Update - Illegal Shell Works halted for a Day
22-10-2009 08:57
Germany: Solidarity action against E.on
21-10-2009 21:17
Shell recruitment event disrupted in Oxford
21-10-2009 20:45
Shell's annual graduate recruitment event aimed at schmoozing Oxford University students was disrupted by local activists tonight who heckled, switched off displays and audio equipment, gave an alternative speech and chatted to the students.Mainshill Drilling Vehicles Sabotaged
21-10-2009 20:02
An anonymous communique was received after two machines used for drilling and testing for coal on site were sabotaged in the early hours of Tuesday morning... The communique reads:Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Demonstration against renewable energy subsidies for Agrofuels
21-10-2009 16:10
Urgent: Please object to large biofuel power station in Sheffield
20-10-2009 14:17
If you live in or near Sheffield and can help in any way with campaigning against this planned biofuel power station, please email us at
info@biofuelwatch.org.uk. Thanks.
Calling all artists! 'Alternative Trafigura Art Prize' launches today
18-10-2009 15:32
Don’t Get Fooled Again is delighted to announce the launch of the ‘Alternative Trafigura Art Prize’. This prestigious new contest will celebrate the contribution to UK political life of the oil-company and serial litigant Trafigura, and will run concurrently with the official Trafigura Art Prize competition.The Great Climate Swoop: Day One
17-10-2009 23:38
This is a summary of despatches from the last 24hrs at midnight on Saturday 17th.After months of careful planning, notably using a ballot to decide the target of the action, several hundreds of climate activists from around the UK swooped on Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire today.
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BP recruitment event taken over by Oxford climate campaigners
16-10-2009 10:09
BP's flagship annual recruitment event at Oxford's Randolph Hotel was disrupted last night when members of the audience jumped on the stage and took over the event. Around 20 campaigners targeted the 6.30pm event in protest at the company's recent decision to extract oil from Canada's Tar Sands.Shell work in Mayo pre-empts planning decision
16-10-2009 09:40
Stop industrial Tuna fishing in Papua New Guinea
16-10-2009 09:07
Action Alert. Over-fishing has come to Madang, Papua New GuineaSwoop on Eon two days early
15-10-2009 17:18
Just days before the Great Climate Swoop, the Camp for Climate Action has upped the ante in its bitter battle with energy giant e.on, by publicly occupying it flagship public relations YouTube channel, Talking Energy.Langridge vs. Calverton greenbelt campaigners
14-10-2009 22:57
On the morning of Tuesday 6th October campaigners gathered at Nottinghamshire County Council Hall to hear that their application to have the greenbelt area of Dark Lane in Calverton registered as a village green had been rejected. This was the latest setback in a long-running campaign to avert housing company Langridge's predations on the area which have threatened since the 1980s.Direct Action; UK & Ireland
14-10-2009 22:15
11th-14th OctoberTARGET: ASTRAZENECA (UK)
CIRCUS VEHICLES VANDALIZED (UK)
ASTRAZENECA DIRECTOR TRACKED DOWN (UK)
ALF NIGHT OUT IN DUBLIN (Ireland)
BLOODY BURBERRY (UK)
FURRIER'S HOME REDECORATED (Canada)
Loggers Stopped from Felling Forest For Coal
14-10-2009 21:50
Carter Ruck stop the reporting of Parliament
13-10-2009 09:43
Seems according to the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/12/guardian-gagged-from-reporting-parliament they can't report from Parliament now. The infamous Carter Ruck is up to it's tricks again. You must wonder what bit of the public proceedings of parliament http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/newhtml_hl?DB=semukparl&STEMMER=en&WORDS=trafigura&ALL=trafigura&ANY=&PHRASE=&CATEGORIES=&SIMPLE=&SPEAKER=&COLOUR=red&STYLE=s&ANCHOR=muscat_highlighter_first_match&URL=/pa/cm200809/cmordbk2/91013o02.htm#muscat_highlighter_first_match they can't report about Trafigura and Carter Ruck.
Change Your Diet, Save the Climate
13-10-2009 01:15
UK government condemns British mining company Vedanta
12-10-2009 13:48
In an unprecedented attack on a major British company, the government ruled that Vedanta, ‘did not respect the rights of the Dongria Kondh’; ‘did not consider the impact of the construction of the mine on the [tribe’s] rights’; and ‘failed to put in place an adequate and timely consultation mechanism’. Devastatingly, it concluded, ‘A change in the company’s behaviour’ is ‘essential’.Conservation Biology and Restoration of Habitats in the Thames Valley Region
12-10-2009 11:06
Thames Valley Allience for Conservation. Public Meeting. Presentations with questions and audience discussion afterwards