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FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL DECLARES OPEN SEASON ON CENTRAL AFRICA’S INTACT FOREST LANDSCAPES
New Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) “national standards” for Cameroon and the Republic of Congo are good news for the multinational loggers destroying Africa’s Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL), biodiversity hotspots crucial for maintaining global carbon levels.
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Mauritius after three months: 10 unanswered questions following the oil spill
On August 6, Mauritius local time, the MV Wakashio began to leak it's heavy fuel oil offshore of Pointe d'Esny, south of Mauritius, two weeks after the Japanese bulk carrier ran aground on a coral reef. Sensitive ecosystems in Mauritius’ lagoon and shoreline have been contaminated and might take decades to recover.
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Nurdle Hurdle: The Department of Environment Needs to Take Bold Action and Ban Single-Use Plastic
Responding to reports that plastic nurdles are washing up in the Southern Cape and on Cape Town beaches, Greenpeace Africa Plastic Campaign Lead Angelo Louw has said
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What we learn about power from a decade of climate change
Climate change affects all of us, although in different ways. Where do we find the power to tackle one of the planet's greatest existential threats? Not in policy, but in consequence and in people
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Global SO2 emissions drop in 2019 – Greenpeace global ranking
JAnthropogenic sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions fell globally in 2019, reveals a new analysis of NASA satellite data by Greenpeace India and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
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Op-ed | Small-scale fishers’ heritage is systemically gutted
When I first visited here in my youth, the market was as vibrant as the boats docked along its piers, banter and laughter were a distraction from the fishy stench that stung the nose; but now, there’s not much distraction from the fast-spreading rot
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Greenpeace Reacts to Reports of Oil in Pregnant Whale Carcass in Mauritius
Last weekend Mauritian media reported that a Forensic Science Laboratory had discovered traces of oil (hydrocarbons) during an autopsy of a pregnant melon-headed whale carcass, conducted to determine the cause of death of 50 whales and dolphins.
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Illegal giant palm oil plantation flattening indigenous people’s rainforest and threatening endangered wildlife in Cameroon
llegal clear-cutting of ancestral lands of the Indigenous Bagyeli people has begun in a biodiversity hotspot in coastal Cameroon
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Sinking of the MV Wakashio wreck – letter to Malta
Following the grounding of the MV Wakashio off the coast of Malta and the subsequent dumping of the forward cargo section of the ship 35 miles off the coast of Mauritius, on August 24 2020 we wrote to you, as the Flag State responsible for the tugs that undertook the dumping.
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Mauritius Oil Disaster – Open Letter
Following the grounding of the Japanese chartered and owned MV Wakashio, we wrote to you on 24 August 2020, with a number of questions about the Government’s response to this unfolding disaster. We have not yet had a reply.