Severe floods hit nearby Bihar region in 2008 Recent heavy rain and flash floods across Vietnam and in India’s West Bengal State have made it a top priority for WSPA to assess the need for animals in the aftermath. In southern West Bengal, flooding h...
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Hue City, Viet Nam, 29th June 2011—A wrap-up workshop takes place today in Hue city at the end of a two-year project aimed at reducing illegal wildlife trade in the biodiversity-rich Central Annamites region of Viet Nam.
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Mumbai, India, 14th June 2011—A workshop organized by TRAFFIC India in association with the National Academy for Customs, Excise & Narcotics (NACEN), Western region, Bhandup (E), Mumbai on “Strengthening Wildlife Law Enforcement” ...
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A Brazilian environmentalist was killed Friday in the Amazon Rainforest region, three days after the murders of two other environmental activists in the area, authorities said. Adelino Ramos, known as Dinho and a leader among local impoverished farmers...
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Javier Torres Cruz, 30, who fought illegal deforestation by drug traffickers in the Mexican state of Guerroro, was murdered a week ago. A member of the local NGO, Environmental Organization of the Coyuca and Petatlán Mountains, Torres Cruz was known a...
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WSPA’s global disaster management team is monitoring the situation in the Pacific region as the Japan earthquake of today triggers a massive tsunami. Staff from both the WSPA Central America office and the WSPA Asia office are poised to respond to an...
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Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, 21st-23rd February 2011—Law enforcers are being trained this week on how to identify threatened reptile species and familiarize themselves with international wildlife protection policies in an effort to combat illegal ...
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Our gorgeous blind bear Mityan is sponsored by Bev Hellyer and our support group in Queensland, Australia, where they are now suffering themselves in the floods hitting their region. In a bid to help Bev and our friends there smile I had wandered over ...
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Construction on a hydroelectric power plant in Turkey’s Black Sea region was temporarily halted a few hour’s shy of the new year following a nearly month-long protest by area residents. Click here for more.
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Several Mapuche communities in the Lleu Lleu lake region are coming together to build a radio station as a source of counterinformation that comes from a Mapuche cultural worldview. The Mapuche have been struggling for over 500 years against invasion a...
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In a matter of weeks the Australian government will make one of the largest conservation decisions in history when it considers the creation of the biggest network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the world. But the precise level of protec...
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Am Mittwoch den 6. Oktober seilten sich Aktive von ROBIN WOOD von einer Brücke im Moseltal ab, um gegen die geplante Bundesstraße B50neu zu protestieren. Im  Touristenort Bernkastel gab es mehr als die für die Region berühmten Weinreben zu sehen. Während die Bürgerinitiative gegen die Bundestraße B50neu Informationen verteilte, brachten sich zwei Aktivist_innen von...
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