. EIA and other concerned international and national organisations are calling on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue of tiger trade with China’s President Xi Jinping during…
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. EIA and other concerned international and national organisations are calling on President Obama to raise the issue of tiger trade with China’s President Xi Jinping during his visit to…
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“The reason for their success is not just the information gathered, it is the way they use it as a political lobbying tool. One of Britain’s most effective conservation groups”…
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Today is International Tiger Day and, as well as an opportunity to celebrate this magnificent big cat, it is an opportunity to reflect on the pressing need to do all…
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With tiger farming long pushed to the margins of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), EIA’s Tigers Campaign is pleased to see the issue back in…
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. EIA campaigners at the 65th meeting of the Standing Committee to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Geneva have learnt that a key recommendation directed…
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Sign up nowClimate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action
Thousands of schoolchildren and young people in the UK are taking part in climate strikes with the support of a former UN climate chief, who said it was “time to heed the deeply moving voice of youth”.
Christiana Figueres, who led the historic 2015 Paris agreement, said the fact that children were so worried about their future they were prepared to strike should make adults take urgent action.
Source: www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/uk-climate-change-strike-school-pupils-children-envir...
#UK #climate #schools
17 hours ago ·
Today is World Pangolin Day, a chance to celebrate one of the natural world's most curious creatures - and to spread awareness of the dire threats it faces as the world's most trafficked mammal.
Find out about the work of our Pangolin Campaign at eia-international.org/our-work/wildlife/pangolins/
23 hours ago ·
Record number of blue whales in Great Australian Bight this summer
Scientists estimate that there are up to 50 blue whales in the Great Australian Bight this summer, the highest number seen since blue whale aerial surveys began in the region.
But it is a fluke researchers know this at all as funding for aerial surveys has been difficult to come by.
This year, blue whales have only been seen in the Bight because they crossed paths with another animal that feeds in the Bight's bountiful summer waters — southern bluefin tuna ...
Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-14/blue-whales-in-record-numbers-in-great-australian-bight/10786692
#Australia #whales #tuna
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