CHARITY, CHUGGERS & THE "MOTHER" TEST
There has been considerable coverage in the UK newspapers of charities harassing elderly people, including those with obvious signs of...
SAVING A PUPPY IN PARIS
Let’s face it, getting 196 countries to agree on saving a puppy would be nigh impossible. “Nobody was there to protect the Moscow water...
CLIMATE KILLS KIDS
At a party on a beautifully balmy night in Ibiza, after learning I was an environmentalist, a stranger threw unsubstantiated and...
IVORY TRADE: A NEW THAI LAUNDRY
An elephant dies about every twenty minutes in Africa yet the main culprits still don’t act as if there is any urgency. China, the...
IVORY TRADE: A LETHAL EXPERIMENT
“It’s just sitting there, worth a fortune” explained a frustrated and committed wildlife warden in South Africa. We were sharing a beer...
IVORY TRADE: THE VIOLENCE
I felt a sickening sadness as a breeze wafted the pungent decay of two rotting elephant corpses in my direction. In this beautiful Kenyan...
DOES WWF STILL BACK IVORY TRADE?
You might be surprised by this question but I can’t find any WWF ivory trade policy on their colourful websites although they have plenty...
CECIL "USE IT OR LOSE IT" POLICY DRIVES ELEPHANT SLAUGHTER
The cruel death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe is no accident. Hunting associations may be calling for prosecutions, but that’s not...
HAVE WE LOST OUR WISDOM?
About thirty years ago I tried to explain the concept of commercial recycling to a Kenyan wildlife activist. Although he understood what...
THE SINKING OF THE RAINBOW WARRIOR 30 YEARS AGO WAS ONLY THE START OF MURDER WITH IMPUNITY
On July 10th 1985 a small group of us from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) were in the Faroe Islands preparing to launch...