Five years after the UN first called on India to close the Andaman Trunk Road (ATR), Survival International is urging the organization to bring an…
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Survival urges UN to end Andamans scandal
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Road show to get S Africans weather smart
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Duduza – A campaign to sensitise South Africans to extreme weather conditions is well underway in the continued spate of bad weather which has killed…
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Men face charges for Guarani murders
February 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Six men are being brought to trial for the murder of two Guarani Indians who were killed in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state in 2009.
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Call for end to human safaris
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The ‘human safaris’ scandal in the Andaman Islands has reached the British Parliament, with MPs tabling a motion calling on India to close the illegal road that cuts through the Jarawa tribe’s reserve. Presented to the House of Commons by MP Andrew George, it calls for an end to recently contacted Jarawa being treated like [...]
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Illegal loggers seized
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú National Park, just days after the world caught its first detailed glimpse of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe. The discovery followed Survival International’s release of close-up pictures of the tribe to raise awareness of the threats illegal logging poses to their survival. In an operation led [...]
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Rhino poachers sentenced to 25 years
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Pretoria – Three Mozambican rhino poacher (http://www.econspire.com/news/killing-rhinos-south-africa)s have each been sentenced to 25 years…
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Ireland Below EU 2010 Limits
January 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Three Of Four Transboundary Air Pollutants Emissions Of Nitrogen Oxide Under the National Emission Ceilings Directive, Ireland was required to limit emissions of four transboundary air pollutants in 2010. Provisional figures from the EPA show emissions of three of these pollutants (sulphur dioxide, volatile organic compounds and ammonia) were below the emission ceilings in 2010. [...]
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DEA, NGOs battle with rhino poaching
January 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Cape Town – The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs has revealed that 232 suspects were arrested in connection with rhino poaching last…
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Up to The Private Sector to Invest in New Technology
January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In free-market economies, decisions about whether to invest in a technology or an industry are made by market actors with private capital. The promise of profit induces investment in promising ventures and the sting of loss penalizes those investments that turn out to be misguided. Of course, we live in a mixed economy in which [...]
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Andaman human safaris
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival International – but the problem has continued. On 11 January 2010 Survival wrote to the Lieutenant Governor of the Islands, warning him that ‘a number of tour operators are promoting tours which include sightings of, or encounters with, the [...]
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