Posted by Angela Glienicke -
31 July 2013 at 4:12pm
Normally you associate
Thailand’s beaches and holiday resorts with emerald water and white sands, but
on Saturday morning 50,000 litres of crude oil spilled from a leak in a
pipeline into the Gulf of Thailand, off Rayong province.
Selfridges Project Ocean - making sharks more fluffy
Okay, so it’s unlikely you’ll ever see a hammerhead
on a helter-skelter; it’s fair to say you won’t see many basking sharks
see-sawing with sawfish; and woe betide the wobbegong
that tries to have a go on a roundabout. But sharks need parks too. They have
as much right to play in safety as anyone else, right?
Posted by Angela Glienicke -
26 July 2013 at 4:48pm
Sitting in my comfortable office chair and watching these terrible images come through the picture desk, I feel a desperate need to stop this destruction. The devastating forest fires that swept through Sumatra recently caused record breaking air pollution in parts of Malaysia and Singapore.
Being held in captivity can chop 50-60 years from a killer whale's life expectancy
When I was little, I can vaguely remember a trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park for my
birthday. This was back in the days when the world was black and white,
Starburst was called Opal Fruits, and they still had dolphins in captivity in
the UK. I don’t remember much, but I know we watched a dolphin ‘show’ with
balls and hoops and clapping and ‘ooh-ing’.
You can’t see a dolphin in the UK doing that today. That is
progress.
New road-building plans ride roughshod over the green economy
Last week's spending round was another nail
in the coffin of "the greenest government ever". Treasury minister Danny
Alexander's speech was a stream of plans and proposals to carve up the
countryside, ratchet up road emissions and slash funding for green transport.
So much for a green economy.
But as I write this, with less than a week to
go, I’m just feeling... tired. I have sores on my shoulders from training with
backpacks full of weights, and every night brings tiresome dreams about
carabiners and tangled ropes.
An attempt by big fishing firms to protect their decades-long
stranglehold on Britain’s fish was resoundingly defeated in court. The
judgement gives back control of our seas to the public and the UK government,
rather than big industry.
Esha and fellow activists handing in the petition calling for climate change lessons to be kept in the curriculum to the Department for Education
A few months ago, I sat expressing my anger towards the
removal of climate change from the geography curriculum for key stages 1 – 3.
The Department for Education seemed to overlook the very people who this
decision would affect – school students. A few months later, I am happy and
relieved to say that our request to keep climate in the curriculum has been
acknowledged.
It’s not every day we trump the
Rolling Stones. But more than once at Glastonbury 2013, I overheard people
pointing to the Greenpeace field and saying “that’s been my favourite thing at
the festival”.
