Tanzania: Multi-Task Team Formed to Fight Environmental Crime
ORGANISED criminals including dynamite fishermen and poachers have their days numbered as government teams up with European Union and World Bank to contain spiraling environmental crime. Home Affairs
View Article25,164 environmental violations seen in China
BEIJING - China has imposed punishment in 25,164 environmental violation cases in the first half of 2015, with 9,325 companies having their doors sealed, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said...
View ArticlePolluting firms fined and shut
CHINA has imposed punishment in 25,164 environmental violation cases in the first half of 2015, with 9,325 companies shut down, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday. Violators were
View ArticleIndonesia arrests four men over Sumatran tiger killing
Indonesian police have arrested four men for allegedly killing a Sumatran tiger and trying to sell its body parts, an official said on Monday, in the latest case of the critically endangered animals being
View ArticleCrime in India 2014 statistics (covers environment related crimes)
India had reported over 5,800 environment related crimes last year with maximum over 83% of it being recorded for violation of the Forest Act, 1927 where the offenders were booked for illegally cutting
View ArticleDelhi records seventh-highest number of environment-related crimes in 2014
NEW DELHI: The city recorded the seventh-highest number of environment-related crimes in the country in 2014. Although it had only 41 cases, as against the wo-rst performers Rajasthan (2,666) and Uttar
View ArticleNCRB says over 50% of environment-related offences reported in Raj
Rajasthan has less than 5% of the country's forest cover but when it comes to environment-related offences, particularly the number of crimes under the Forest Act and the Wildlife Protection Act, it is
View ArticleZimbabwe arrests man linked to Cecil killer on new wildlife charges
Zimbabwean police on Tuesday arrested a local hunter who was linked to the killing of Cecil the lion in July on new charges of transporting 29 sable antelopes without a permit and as accomplice to...
View ArticleKenyan youths renounce crime to protect forests
Groups of reformed youths who once sold drugs and stole from their neighbours are helping protect trees in rural central Kenya from illegal loggers. The young adults, whose previous activities were
View ArticleSouth Africa steps up efforts to fight rhino poaching
South Africa has stepped up its efforts to fight rhino poaching in the country’s flora and fauna-rich nature reserves, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has said. Addressing the second...
View ArticleBrazilian exchange launches app to track illegal timber trade
Brazil's environmental assets exchange BVRio on Tuesday launched an app that promises to help foreign traders and buyers of Brazilian timber make sure the product hasn't been illegally logged. The...
View ArticleDestruction of Brazil's Amazon forest jumps 16 percent in 2015
The destruction of Brazil's Amazon forest, the world's largest intact rainforest, increased by 16 percent in 2015 from a year ago as the government struggles to enforce legislation and stop illegal...
View ArticleGhana: Illegal Loggers Creating Problems in Wa District
Residents in the Wa East District have expressed unease about the activities of some lumber companies who are indiscriminately felling valuable trees in the District. They said the destruction of trees
View ArticleIndonesian Court Rejects Forest Fire Case in Haze Battle Setback
An Indonesian court threw out a government suit against a pulpwood plantation company for alleged damage from illegal burning, another setback for President Joko Widodo as he seeks a permanent solution
View ArticleIn Tanzania, a Horrific Fishing Tactic Destroys All Sea Life
Why? Because poor Tanzanian fishermen are using explosives, illegally, to kill hundreds of fish in seconds. Blast fishing, as it’s called, not only destroys large numbers of fish directly—but indirectly
View ArticleNational wildlife crime unit facing closure within weeks
Chris Packham, the naturalist and TV presenter, has said it is “disgusting and disappointing” that the UK’s wildlife crime agency faces closure in six weeks unless the government renews its funding.
View ArticleUK's wildlife crime unit wins late reprieve from closure
Specialist body tackling wildlife crime was set to close at the end of March but has been awarded four years’ worth of funding The UK’s national wildlife crime unit (NWCU) has won a late reprieve from
View ArticleIndigenous Leader Berta Caceres Killed in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA – Berta Caceres, a Honduran indigenous leader who led demonstrations against hydroelectric projects in her homeland, was killed early Thursday at her residence in the western city of La...
View ArticleMozambique: Over 300 Arrests for Poaching Last Year
The Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development, Celso Correia, announced in Maputo on 3 March that during 2015 the Mozambican authorities detained over 300 people in connection with poaching.
View ArticleNine Injured in Protest by Environmentalists in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA – At least nine people were injured when assailants attacked Honduran and foreign environmentalists holding a demonstration earlier this weekend in memory of slain human rights activist Berta
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