A polar bear Szenja (21) has died in captivity at SeaWorld San Diego, USA, this week. She had been separated from her life-long friend Snowflake for two months at the moment of passing away. Snowflake was shipped to a zoo in Pittsburgh for breeding purposes in spite of the protests of animal rights activists, and NGOs,…
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EU calls Liybans for compromise
The clashes and escalation of violence in the south of Libya endanger the political process and put Libyan citizens’ lives at risk. “Libyans deserve peace and stability, and expect all sides to refrain from violence and take measures to de-escalate the tense situation. Libya’s political crisis can only be solved through negotiation between all stakeholders…
South Libya clashes
The clashes and escalation of violence in the south of Libya endanger the political process and put Libyan citizens’ lives at risk. Libya’s unity government in Tripoli has called for “urgent intervention” by the international community to end military escalation in its south, warning of a possible “civil war”. For more than a week,…
EU saving lives in Horn of Africa
A Humanitarian Crisis Meeting on the alarming levels offood insecurity in the Horn of Africa was held in Brussels on 5 April 2017. The meeting was co-hosted by Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs (EU HR), Mr Sigmar Gabriel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, and Mr Stephen O’Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency…
Animal refugees from Mosul in Jordan
Found abandoned in February, Lula the bear and Simba the lion were starving and living in cages filled with feces and urine. Lula was also suffering from pneumonia. Simba had a joint condition, and both animals had severe diarrhea and rotting teeth. Locals were trying to look after and feed the remaining bear and lion,…
MEPs for regulation of online pet trade
The Members of the European Parliament expressed concern about the growing problem of fraud in on-line sales of animals as pets, mainly puppies and kittens, but also exotic spices. An independent investigation showed 600% growth of the puppies sales from Eastern Europe – Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, to the UK, and the other West European member-states….
EP calls for single scheme for palm oil
Palm oil is extensively used in food, cosmetics and biofuels, however the unsustainable production of the cheap vegetable oil leads to deforestation, loss of nature habitats and greenhouse gas emissions. MEPS vote on 4 April on a report by Czech GUE member Kateřina Konečná calling on the European Commission to take measures to ensure among…
Zoo rhino killed for his horn…in Paris!
Poachers have broken into a zoo near Paris and shot a rhinoceros dead before stealing his hugely valuable ivory horn. #Breaking: Murders break into Thoiry Zoo, outside #Paris, kill an #endangered White #Rhino named Vincent, and saw off his horn. Why? Greed pic.twitter.com/QJ26IfANcd — Daniel Schneider (@BiologistDan) March 7, 2017 In the first case of…
Russia to invest in windmills
Gazprombank will provide a loan of 64.6 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) to the Rosatom state nuclear corporation for the wind farms construction in Russia, according to the Rosatom procurement website, Russian Radio Sputnik reports. VetroOGK, part of Rosatom, will attract 64.6 billion rubles from Gazprombank in two tranches. The amount of the first tranche is to stand at 57.4 billion rubles,…
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