Deepwater horizon incident (Update 10)
Unified Command continues with a comprehensive oil well intervention and spill response plan following the April 22 sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. More than 1,000...
Landmark New Report Says Emerging Green Economy Could Create Tens of Millions of New...
New York, 24 September 2008 (ILO/UNEP)-A new, landmark study on the impact of an emerging global "green economy" on the world of work says efforts to tackle climate change could result in the creation...
WSPA’s Red Collar campaign launches in China
Every year, thousands of people die due to rabies, a deadly but preventable disease.
WSPA-trained workers from the local Animal Disease Control Centre vaccinating a dog against rabies during the launch of a new mass...
60% of Australians do not support the processing of gas in the Kimberley
The Australian Greens said today that 60% of Australians do not support the processing of gas in the Kimberley.
Speaking today at the announcement of the Sea Shepherd’s visit to Broome and the Kimberley Senator...
Effective action on bottom trawling scuttled in the final hours of negotiations
23 November 2006 UN fisheries negotiations ran into early this morning as delegates worked to find a compromise. They were looking at text which would have offered immediate protection for vulnerable areas in the...
Europe blows its annual budget for fish on Friday 9 July
New research reveals that Europe could not feed itself on fish from EU waters for more than 189 days a year, and from today is dependent on fish caught elsewhere.
Consuming far more than our...
Mass whale stranding in Far North
The Department of Conservation (DOC) in Kaitaia received a call from a member of the public at approximately 10.30am this morning advising of a mass whale stranding on Karikari Beach (a remote beach on...
Earthjustice Challenges New Interpretation of Law in Alaska Gold Mine Case
Is toxic water allowed by Clean Water Act?
San Francisco - In a move to prevent a multinational mining corporation from using the federal Clean Water Act to kill an Alaskan lake, Earthjustice attorneys argued...
Field reports indicate slaughter of elephants, conservation staff evacuated
WWF and WCS have received alarming reports from their field operations that elephants are being slaughtered in the violence-ridden Central African Republic (CAR), where new powers in place struggle to gain control over the...
Whaling season officially over
Fate of the whales remains in question
Antarctica — Today the whaling fleet crossed the 60 degree latitude, leaving the whaling grounds behind - at least for this season. Officials in Tokyo have finally acknowledged...
Feds Fail to Protect West Coast Great White Sharks
The National Marine Fisheries Service today declined to protect great white sharks off the coast of California under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Although peer-reviewed scientific population estimates at the two primary white shark...
Interior Secretary Kempthorne Announces Proposal to List Polar Bears as Threatened Under Endangered Species...
(BOISE, Idaho) – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act and...
