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Bangladeshis to protest coal expansion in pristine mangrove forest

by ostyx | Oct 24, 2014 | Asia (incl. Maldives), Energy, Features, Forests, Home, News, Pollution/Health, Posts, Regions, Top, Topics, Types, Wildlife

Bangladeshis will gather in their capital city of Dhaka this weekend to protest a coal plant that would irreversibly impact the Sundarbans—one of the world’s largest mangrove forests and a sanctuary for hundreds of species, including the Bengal tiger. The Sundarbans,...

Liberia: First step in halting global deforestation by 2030?

by ostyx | Oct 3, 2014 | Africa & Middle East, Forests, News, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

Liberia is leading the way to halt deforestation thanks to funding from Norway. The announcement came shortly after the UN Climate Summit’s New York Declaration on Forests, the first global pledge of its kind tackling deforestation. The bilateral partnership will see...

Desertification poses “serious environmental challenge” in Nigeria

by ostyx | Aug 20, 2014 | Africa & Middle East, Forests, Governments, News, Posts, Science/Weather

After losing 351,000 hectares of land in Nigeria to desertification, it poses the “most serious environmental challenge in the country’s north,” according to their Ministry of Environment. Environment Minister Laurentia Laraba Mallam recently revealed that the country...

Albertine oil exploration set to expand into Rwanda and Tanzania

by ostyx | Jul 19, 2014 | Africa & Middle East, Forests, News, Pollution/Health, Posts

Rwanda and Tanzania intend to expand fossil fuel excavation within their borders of the Albertine rift, according to recent reports. Rwanda is calling for proposals from oil companies to pick up where a Canadian oil firm left off, and continue excavating sites along...

Australian MP moves to strip environmental advocates of charitable tax status

by ostyx | Jul 3, 2014 | Australasia/Pacific, Energy, Features, Forests, Governments, Home, News, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types

In Australia, the fightback against divestment and other successful environmental campaigns is escalating from proposed bans on secondary boycotts, with a conservative MP pushing draconian measures to strip environmental groups of their charitable status. At a meeting...

Soco to halt oil exploration in Virunga national park

by ostyx | Jun 11, 2014 | Africa & Middle East, Features, Forests, Justice, News, Posts, Regions, Topics, Types, Wildlife

Following months of intense campaigning, environmentalists can claim a victory today, as British oil company Soco has agreed to end controversial drilling operations in the Virunga world heritage site – Africa’s oldest national park. In an unexpected decision, the...
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