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Global Witness reveals that an opaque Guernsey-owned company’s oil rights threatening a protected national park in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) could be null and void, according to their legal analysis. In February 2018, Guernsey-owned oil company CoMiCo won approval for a contract originall

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Environment , Forests , Resources , Sustainable Development / 02/09/2019

Mangroves destruction in Maldives-islands’ biggest ecocide

Save Maldives The decision to build a domestic airport in Kulhudhuffushi wetland and mangroves and the subsequent reclamation of a significant part of the mangroves is one of the biggest environmental ecocides the Maldives has seen in recent times. The destruction of the mangrove ecosystem commenced

Biodiversity , Corruption , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Forests , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/04/2019

Environmental laws only look good on paper, UN says

From 2002 to 2017, there was a fourfold increase in the number of environmental defenders murdered, according to the report.

Biodiversity , Climate , Disasters , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Resources , Science & Technology , Soil , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 01/27/2019

Watch: Destruction of the Environment as a Consequence of Overpopulation

As of December 31, 2018, at midnight CET the population on our planet was exactly 8,953,851,418 or almost 9 billion!

Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Corruption , Environment , Forests , Sustainable Development / 01/10/2019

#MvTreeGrab: Removal of trees continues for landscaping of resorts in Maldives

Mohamed Junayd A local company wants to remove 582 coconut palms from Badidhoo island. The Badidhoo island in Dhaal atoll is the latest flashpoint in the removal of trees for the landscaping of new resorts, an increasingly common practice environmental activists have dubbed #MvTreeGrab. A

Biodiversity , Featured , Food , Forests , Sustainable Development / 01/08/2019

For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help

Covering more than 20 percent of the country’s land area – approximately half the size of Europe– the Cerrado is Brazil’s second-largest habitat after the Amazon rainforest, with areas ranging from grasslands to gallery forests to semi-arid caatinga characterized by desert-type vegetation. N

Biodiversity , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights / 01/03/2019

Bolsonaro “declares war” on Brazil’s indigenous peoples

Jair Bolsonaro has started his Presidency in the worst possible way for the indigenous peoples of Brazil. Taking responsibility for indigenous land demarcation away from FUNAI, the Indian affairs department, and giving it to the Agriculture Ministry is virtually a declaration of open warfare against

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Forests , Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Refugees , Science & Technology , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 12/24/2018

Bamboo Treatment Plants to Repel Beetles Attacking Bangladesh Refugee Camps

An infestation of “boring beetles” means the bamboo in almost every shelter in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar – home to around 240,000 families – needs to be replaced. With just over four months to go until the beginning of the next monsoon season, the race is on to provide fami

Biodiversity , Environment , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Launches & Events , Sustainable Development / 12/19/2018

Brazil launches operation to save surviving members of uncontacted tribe

Brazilian authorities have completed a rare ground operation to protect an uncontacted tribe from violent ranchers in a region of the Amazon with the highest rate of illegal deforestation in the country. But there are growing fears that unless the remaining steps in the land protection process fo

Aid , Biodiversity , Climate , Energy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Migration , Resources , SDGs , Soil , Sustainable Development , Water / 12/16/2018

Weak workplan wounds Paris Agreement

Joydeep Gupta, Soumya Sarkar, Chris Davy, Fermin Koop, Yao Zhe, Tom Baxter The Paris Agreement, itself a compromise that is not enough to combat climate change, was further weakened in the details as the work programme was signed off in the annual UN climate summit A Paris Agreement Work Progr

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