At least 1,914 baboons had been ‘removed’ by a controversial ‘trap and shoot’ method by FSC Certified plantation companies during the past two years. Timber companies want them dead, because they scratch the bark of pine trees, damaging profits. Most of the […]
Continue readingMonthly Archives: January 2011
Yellowstone Traps Buffalo, Begins Testing
Since Tuesday, January 4, Yellowstone National Park has captured sixty-nine wild buffalo. Various family groups – some that never even left the park – have been forced into the Stephens Creek bison trap inside Yellowstone National Park. The government began testing them […]
Continue readingCourt Orders “Crude” Documentarian to Turn Over Footage
A federal appeals court says that Joe Berlinger, the filmmaker who was ordered to give footage from his 2009 documentary “Crude” to the Chevron Corporation, could not invoke a journalist’s privilege in refusing to turn over that footage because his work on […]
Continue readingFBI Probing Boat Graffiti
The FBI is probing Plymouth boat graffiti that has fishermen — already feuding with the federal government over catch limits— fearful they now could be targets of an anarchist environmental group… “Commercial fishing first class rape,” and “sea life kidnapped, murdered, maliciously” […]
Continue readingReports of Christmas Vandalism in UK
According to the Londonist, “climate change activists targeted four-wheel drive vehicles in west London in a spate of sticker-posting over the Christmas period. Stickers reading ‘CO2 KILL5’ were plastered over the vehicles’ number plates by members of pressure group Climate Rush in […]
Continue readingBeef Fat Clogs Houston Ship Channel
Some 15,000 gallons of animal fat poured into the Houston ship channel through a storm drain on Tuesday after an onshore storage tank owned by agricultural company Jacob Sterns and Sons leaked 250,000 gallons of the greasy substance, Brahms said. Workers with […]
Continue readingReview of Bold Native, interview with writer and director, Denis Henry Hennely
by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! News [The text of this work is free to share and distribute under the following Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND 3.0] Bold Native, written and directed by Denis Henry Hennely, is the first feature length fictional film […]
Continue readingDirect Action Against the Tar Sands
This morning a group of protesters have invaded the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and are demanding a meeting with Stephen Green, the new Minister for Trade. Calling themselves the “Big Society Trade Negotiators”, they are concerned that trade negotiations between […]
Continue readingMassive Response to Sweden’s Wolf Hunt
Another storm of protest is set to engulf Sweden’s second cull of endangered wolves tomorrow, which has seen 6,747 hunters register to kill 20 of the total Scandinavian wolf population of about 250. Click here for more.
Continue readingNew Tree Sit in Arcadia
With the sounds of bulldozers echoing beneath him, veteran tree sitter John Quigley perched in a century-old oak Wednesday, saying he won’t come down until public works officials stop felling scores of trees as part of a dam improvement project. Quigley said […]
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