Tag: oceans

After months of negotiations, the European Union has agreed new legislation to slash single-use plastics.

This week, delegates and experts from around the world are meeting in Geneva to consider ways to address the plastic pollution crisis..

Here are the some of the craziest places where plastic has already been found on our planet, in a wake-up call that should set alarm-bells ringing.

Producers could simply market items such as throwaway plastic cups as reusable under changes to a draft EU laws on single-use plastics tabled today in the European Parliament, the Rethink Plastic alliance of NGOs – of which we are a member – has warned

At the forefront of calls for transnational wildlife and forest crime to be properly recognised and tackled, our campaigners are attending to push for positive outcomes on a number of important campaign issues and to get the results of our investigations and analysis into the right hands to drive meaningful change

Iceland’s internationally condemned minke whale hunting industry has shut down, citing rising costs after just six whales were slaughtered in June and none in July, traditionally the peak time for hunting. Iceland operates in open defiance of an international ban on commercial whaling which was imposed in 1986