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Act Now to Protect the Mekong

 

Shrimp Farming – An Ecological and Social Disaster

 

Kenya and the World Stand Against Plans for Second Port

 

Washington State Residents - Help Halt Fish Farming in Our Coastal Waters

 

Updated Information - Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue "Standards" Create Concern - Your Comments Are Needed

Faulty standards are being readied to hand over to the newly formed Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) sometime after April. We feel the situation is rather urgent, and urge our members and associates to send their own comments stating your concerns about the shrimp standards setting process and its ill-derived standards to Corey Peet, who is the new executive director of the Shrimp Aquaculture "Dialogue."

Oldest Rainforest in the World to Become a Palm Oil Plantation

 

Defend Honduran Environmental Efforts

 

Save the Sundarbans - Stop The Phulbari Coal Mine

The Phulbari Coal Mine Project would establish one of the world’s largest open pit coal mines in northwest Bangladesh, forcibly displacing as many as 130,000 people, including more than 2,200 indigenous households.

Proposed Rail-line in the Adjacent Areas of the Sundarbans

Recently, from some of the daily newspapers, we have come to know that the Government of Bangladesh is going to set up rail-line from Navaran of Jessore District to Munshiganj of Satkhira District which is very adjacent to the Sundarbans. According to the news, there are deep forests and shrimp farms on the designed rail-line and hundreds of the mangrove trees will be subjected to clear-cut for installation of the infrastructures. The news also said that the wildlife may be hampered due to high decimal sound of the railway and environment and ecology will be threatened for regular operation of the rail coaches.

The UN Has Declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests