Tag: biodiversity
Welcome to the worst tourism project in the world
“Dear visitor, you are now entering an environmental disaster zone, formerly known as Kazakhstan’s most wonderful Ile-Alatau National Park.” Will that soon be the message NGOs have to paint on …
Making the link between EJ and biodiversity conservation at IPBES conference
By Amanda Blank EJOLT collaborators from the Environmental Social Science Research Group attended the 2nd conference of the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) last week. IPBES-2 closed the …
Talisman Energy Withdraws from Peruvian Amazon – Achuar people celebrate a major victory for indigenous rights
We like to share with you a press release from Amazon Watch with yet again some good news for environmental justice. To understand this latest good news arising from the …
EJOLT on a forest field trip in Brazil
By Rikard Warlenius We’re bumping on a sand road in Carlos’ trade union car. On the left side straight rows of 15-meter high eucalyptus trees are passing by. The plantation – …
It’s paytime for Chevron’s ecological debt in Ecuador
On 3 January 2012, an appellate court in Ecuador confirmed an earlier lower court decision that found Chevron-Texaco guilty of a wide range of damages linked to their former oil …
