Eco News and Movies
Last Wednesday, EU member states have finally agreed to support a trade ban in bluefin tuna from 2011, what is just in time for a meeting of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species, where the question of a ban will be finally decided. They will be discussing new, 42 proposals to addressing a range of issues from combating elephant poaching [...]
Not many people are aware of the ecological disaster, which has been happening for many years in Asia…. In the hot Karakum desert in Turkmenistan, near the 350 person village of Derweze, is a hole 328 feet wide that has been on fire, continuously, for 38 years. While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists accidentally found an underground cavern filled with [...]
Last Saturday, I watched The Cove, an astounding piece of investigative journalism with the heart of an action thriller. The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises in Taiji, Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labelled as [...]
Today a group of the world’s leading zoologists reveals the 25 most endangered members of the primates the biological order which contains monkeys, tarsiers, lemurs, gibbons and the great apes, including, of course, humans. Destruction of tropical forests, the illegal wildlife trade and commercial bushmeat hunting are all threatening their existence, according to the report Primates In Peril: The World’s [...]
The End of the Line reveals the devastating effect that global over-fishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. It takes courage to present a film about the true state of the world. When there are so many interests invested in hiding the truth, this movie should be praised for shining a light on the industry, [...]
Based on information found in Guardian, the Chinese government revealed today in its first census on pollution, which has mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste. According to the study, agriculture is responsible for 43.7% of the nation’s chemical oxygen demand (the main measure of organic compounds in water), 67% of phosphorus and 57% of nitrogen [...]
