#Act4 FarmAnimals Billions of euros spent on supporting climate-intensive meat and dairy farms, which have shown no drop in emissions since 2010 EU ignoring climate crisis with livestock farm subsidies, campaigners warn 22 May 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Today, the European Commission decided to register a European Citizens' Initiative entitled ‘Save the bees! Protection of biodiversity and improvement of habitats for insects in Europe'. European Commission registers ‘Save the bees!' European Citizens Initiative 15 May 2019
#Act4 Wildlife The Netherlands has its first resident wolf population in 140 years, according to ecologists. Wolves return to Netherlands after 140 years 9 April 2019
#Act4 Wildlife On Wednesday, Parliament approved a new law banning single-use plastic items such as plates, cutlery, straws and cotton buds sticks. European Parliament votes to ban certain disposable plastic items 27 March 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals With the increasing middle classes in countries like China and India, global meat consumption is expected to rise. Meat consumption has detrimental effects on animal welfare, climate and human health. So why has the EU spent €71m promoting it? 12 March 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Scientists have studied how fish adapt to rapid changes in the surrounding freshwater environment to understand how the marine life may respond to climate change. Scientists monitoring climate change impact on behaviour of freshwater fish 11 March 2019
#Act4 Wildlife In his call for more decisive action, at Community and local level, to protect endangered species and biodiversity, European Commissioner Vella has spoken extremely clear words on the "wolf issue" which affects many Member States. EU Commissioner Vella says "Hands off wolves: biodiversity is at risk" 1 March 2019 LAV
#Act4 Wildlife Two American researchers have just calculated that it took 10 years, on average, for an endangered plant or animal to be subject to international protection. Why are hundreds of endangered species not protected? 27 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Spring is arriving early with swallows, frogspawn and unexpected perfume as temperatures soar up to 20C above this time last year when Britain was blasted by the “beast from the east”. UK naturalists concerned for early-emerging spring species 22 February 2019
#Act4 AnimalsEU Europe’s nature remains in dramatic decline - facing a barrage of illegal threats even to protected sites and wildlife - meaning the EU is on track to miss its own 2020 target to stop nature loss. “It’s the ‘final countdown’ for nature”, NGOs tell EU environment chief 13 February 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Lions in Namibia have turned to hunting seabirds and seals in the face of scarce food resources in the desert landscape, research has found. Lions have adapted to hunt seals and seabirds in Namibia, study finds 28 January 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Here’s more evidence that plastic waste is pervasive in our oceans. New study discovers plastic in 50 dead whales, dolphins, seals 24 January 2019