Meeting seeks a way to clean up international trade in plastic waste
Parties to the Basel Convention will convene in Geneva to discuss concrete steps toward cleaning up international trade in plastic waste
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Parties to the Basel Convention will convene in Geneva to discuss concrete steps toward cleaning up international trade in plastic waste
Myanmar President U Win Myint stated that “The Union Government will take effective administrative steps to rectify the weak areas in fighting corruption.” A bold and welcome statement, but no President, Minister or Ministry alone has the power to fight the deep cancer destroying all parts of Myanmar’s fragile future – corruption.
Our Forests campaigners today (21 March) formally submitted a dossier of evidence to German and European enforcement authorities over a German company’s imports of Myanmar teak.
Today (21 March) is the UN’s International Day of Forests and our campaigners are in Brussels for the launch of a joint Forest Pledge.
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.
Scientists have announced that only 10 vaquita porpoises are estimated to survive in the world – virtually assuring the animal’s extinction without bold and immediate action.