Scandal of UK’s illegal e-waste trade exposed
A toxic flood of discarded technology is illegally leaving the UK to wash up in Africa, we reveal in our new report System Failure: The UK’s harmful trade in electronic waste
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A toxic flood of discarded technology is illegally leaving the UK to wash up in Africa, we reveal in our new report System Failure: The UK’s harmful trade in electronic waste
Environmentalists today called on Yahoo! Japan to ban all sales of whale, dolphin and porpoise products on its fee-based Store and Auction sites after discovering that whale products sold via the Yahoo! Japan sites were contaminated with toxic mercury pollution
Celebrities from the worlds of drama, comedy, conservation, television, sport, fashion and journalism will be burning bright at the year’s most exotic fundraising event for wild tiger conservation, an exclusive Gala Night at London’s prestigious Mandarin Oriental Hotel
As few as 3,200 tigers survive in the wild today. That’s why wild tigers need all the friends they can get. On March 3, 2011 celebrities, conservation leaders and campaigners will attend an exclusive Gala Night in London to raise funds for this critically endangered species
Amid growing apprehension, conservationists at the International Tiger Forum are still awaiting a sign that governments are willing to turn words into action to save the world’s 3,200 remaining wild tigers from possible extinction and fear the meeting may close without essential commitments being made by Asia’s leaders
The International Tiger Coalition welcomes Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s convening of world leaders at the International Tiger Conservation Forum and, in response to this historic and unprecedented event, offers support to tiger range states and other participants to help double wild tiger numbers by 2022