UK Ecology Newswire Archive
The Animal Rights of Shakespeare: On Hunters, Vivisectors, Carnivores etc.
06-12-2010 17:43
Shakespeare on calves, deer, wild pigs,horses, rabbits, etcYou are welcome to send these to teachers of English literature and poetry.
Transition to Local Food
05-12-2010 18:41
Machines Sabotaged at Mainshill
04-12-2010 12:24
In the last week of November machines at Mainshill were sabotaged. Twelve machines had hydraulics and electrics cut, these included dumper trucks, fuel tanks, a digger and bulldozers.
Anti-nuclear campaigners brand Government energy view a 'fantasy'
03-12-2010 22:05
West country members of the Stop Nuclear Power Network, have slammed a government consultation on the future of the UK’s energy supply - held on Monday (29 November) in Bristol - as ‘trying to sell a fantasy’. And activists attending the public meeting, held by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), interrupted this afternoon’s event to read out their own ‘cautionary tale’ - which outlines the nightmare future that could be created if a new generation of nuclear power stations is given the go-ahead.
Cardiff Critical Mass
03-12-2010 18:13
Meet at the steps of the National Museum in Cardiff on Saturday at 11amEcoshock: Surviving Now and Then
03-12-2010 17:32
'Nothing' snapped up by Oxford street shoppers
02-12-2010 21:59
were distracted by the launch of London Rising Tide's sales and advertising
team's new product, Nothing(c).
Greater London Action for Animals Formed
01-12-2010 22:43
Wednesday 1st December 2010BACKGROUND
London being the capital city of England holds all the main focuses and lobby groups for industries which use and exploit animals in their day-to-day business; be it the vivisection industry, meat trade, fur being peddled as part of the major fashion cities, those associated with bloodsports, head offices for many of the racing companies and is the centre of power in terms of making progress. For this reason, the city needs a radical presence of activists using a diverse method of grassroots tactics to focus on these companies, show them the opposition to the wrongs they are involved in and effectively push for change.
Buttermarket in Hereford selling real fur - Please take action
29-11-2010 13:14
National Climate March 2010 - this Saturday December 4th
29-11-2010 12:36
Good News for Anti Opencasters Bad news for UK Coal
26-11-2010 15:04
Our latest Press Release contains more good news for the Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG)and more bad news for UK Coal plc as the fight to stop a new opencast application continues is now published as Pr 85 'Campaigners resistance to opencast mine proposals hears encouraging news from MP'. It also contains the results of MOPG's 2010 AGM.March on Parliament for a 'Zero Carbon Britain' and a Million Climate Jobs 04/12
25-11-2010 13:08
Saturday 4th DecemberAssembling 12.00 noon Hyde Park and marching to a Rally outside Parliament,
2.30 to 3.30 pm
The National Climate March, on the Saturday midway through the UN Climate
Talks taking place in Cancun, Mexico, will this year take the form of a
'March on Parliament for a Zero Carbon Britain and a Million Climate Jobs'.
EDF Energy slammed for cruelty to Hinkley badgers
23-11-2010 11:51
Energy giant EDF Energy has been blasted for breaching conservation guidelines and forcing a colony of badgers off land earmarked for controversial new nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point in north Somerset. Environmentalists warn that future corner-cutting could put lives at risk if construction of the two new reactors gets the green light.
Sat 4 Dec - Call-out for vibrant "No Nuclear" bloc at London Climate March
22-11-2010 20:24
- National Climate March, London, Sat 4 December 2010
All English Groups Campaigning Against Opencast mining get a Boost
22-11-2010 14:36
A recent decision not to approve a new opencast mine application gains Government endorsement after a Public Inquiry - the first victory for Anti Opencast Campaigners for at least five years. This decision has implications for all prospective English applications including the Minorca application in LeicestershireCanadian furmongers delay Israeli ban on fur
14-11-2010 02:19
Israeli legislation wrote in an exception for the fur hats wornby Orthodox Rabbis (the Pope's ermine has also become an issue)
... essentially it is Canadian fursellers delaying the passage of the
bill which would make Israel the world's first country to ban fur.
Italy, Germany Slovenia France Ban Bayer's Bee-killing Insecticides
11-11-2010 10:15
(While the US government pretends no one knows what is causing
bee deaths and hides behind obfuscating terms such as 'colony collapse disorder', Italy, Germany, France and Slovenia have taken action.against Bayer. Monsanto's Roundup,
Dow, DuPont, Union Carbide and all insecticides have negative impact on the
world's bees.
50,000 opposed German nuke waste transportation
11-11-2010 09:34
“The CASTOR consignments stand for everything I hate about this country and this system: police protecting big-corporate interests, democracy ignored, parties that only lie, media that only propagandise instead of reporting independently, inhumane technology, lobby-driven policies.”The words of one of 50,000 protesters who over the weekend went to the tiny village of Gorleben in central-north Germany, which normally is home to 600 people, to oppose the 12th delivery of nuclear waste containing the radiation equivalent of about 100 Hiroshima bombs.