Urge your MP to get the UK working with China to end trade in big cats!
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Following our major exposé of illegal CFC-11 production, China phases out 280,000 tonnes of ozone-depleting substances in 2018
China has phased out 280,000 tonnes of ozone-depleting substance (ODS) production as part of its obligations to the 1988 Montreal Protocol aimed at protecting the ozone layer, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Tuesday.
China banned some products like CFC-11, which is used in air conditioners when it joined the Montreal Protocol in 1991 ...
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* Read our original report Blowing It at ht.ly/kC8R30o7iG2
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China launched a special national campaign to crack down on the illegal production of ODS last year ... after the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reported that dozens of Chinese companies were still using CFC-11 in the production of foam ...
Source: www.reuters.com/article/us-china-environment-ozone/china-phases-out-280000-t-of-ozone-depleting-s...
#China #climate #ozone #CFC #ODS #MontrealProtocol
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Urge your MP to get the UK working with China to end trade in big cats!
When the Chinese Government banned its domestic ivory trade in 2017, conservationists around the world celebrated a major win for elephants – and it’s long overdue for such a lifeline to be thrown to the world’s imperilled big cats.
If you live in the UK, we ask you to call on your local MP to join our campaigners at an event in Parliament on 2 April 2019 to explore how the UK can work with China to become big cat conservation champions ...
Full details of how to get involved at eia-international.org/urge-mp-get-uk-working-china-end-trade-big-cats/
#UK #China #tigers #leopards #lions #jaguars
1 day ago ·
Hundreds of mutilated dolphins caught by nets discovered piled up on beach in France
The mutilated corpses of hundreds of dolphins have been found piled up on a French beach.
They were some of the thousands accidentally killed by the fishing industry each year that wash up on the country’s coast, observers say.
The animals had suffered fractures, snapped tails, broken flippers and deep wounds from nets cutting into their flesh.
And experts fear the toll of “bycatch” victims is threatening the survival of French dolphin populations ...
Source: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dolphins-killed-beach-dead-france-sea-shepherd-atlantic-c...
#France #dolphins #fishing #bycatch
2 days ago ·