Uprooting illegal logging: From the Amazon to the EU
by An Lambrechts
Illegal logging in the Brazilian Amazon is vast in scale and scope – impacting both rainforest communities and crucial habitat.
This past August – during my first visit to the Brazilian Amazon – my Brazilian colleagues visited the land of the Ka’apor indigenous people ( www.greenpeace.org/internation… ) to assist the community with remote surveillance technology and electronic tracking devices. These systems would help them to monitor illegal logging on their lands, as indigenous tribes all too often fall victim to uncontrolled and illegal logging practices …
Greenpeace International (blog) – November 20, 2015 at 06:43 PM
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Japanese Whalers Who Think It’s OK to Keep Killing Whales Just Got Slapped With a HUGE Fine
Aisling Maria Cronin
Despite widespread public opposition to the brutal business of whaling – which kills 16,000 whales ( www.onegreenplanet.org/animals… ) every year, and has driven the Blue Whale to the brink of extinction ( www.onegreenplanet.org/animals… ) – countries such as Japan, Norway, and Iceland have continued to engage in it. Japanese whalers carry out their hunts under the guise of ( www.onegreenplanet.org/animals… ) “scientific research,” despite the fact that no scientific papers have ever been published as a result of their expeditions. In 2014, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that Japan was banned from hunting whales in Antarctic waters ( www.onegreenplanet.org/news/hu… ) … but a number of Japanese whaling companies have chosen to continue their operations in this area regardless …
One Green Planet – November 20, 2015
Japanese Whalers Who Think It’s OK to Keep Killing Whales Just Got Slapped With a HUGE Fine
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