#Act4 LabAnimals Horseshoe crabs’ icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry’s standard for safety tests after a powerful US group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute pushed by Swiss biotech Lonza and animal welfare groups. Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as industry group rejects substitute 9 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife World Oceans Day has been celebrating the ocean on June 8th every year since 2002. And while Covid-19 and social distancing are changing how we recognize our blue planet this year, the need for action is perhaps more important than ever. Ensuring a healthy home for marine life: World Oceans Day 8 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife The common agricultural policy (CAP) was not effective in reversing the decades-long decline in biodiversity and intensive farming remains a main cause of biodiversity loss, according to a new report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA). Biodiversity on farmland continues to decline despite specific CAP measures 8 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Primatologist calls for overhaul of food habits to prevent a future pandemic. Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19 8 June 2020 CIWF
#Act4 AnimalsEU The European Commission is awaiting formal notification that the Netherlands has rejected the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Dutch Parliament adopts a resolution against the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade deal 8 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife The EU’s decade-long policy effort to reverse the biodiversity loss has not come to fruition, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) warned in a report published on Friday (5 June). EU unable to curb biodiversity loss on farmlands, auditors say 8 June 2020
#Act4 Wildlife One million out of eight million species globally are threatened with extinction. Find out which and how many species in Europe are endangered or extinct. Find out which and how many species in Europe are endangered or extinct 29 May 2020
#Act4 Wildlife An Indigenous poet reflects on how releasing a captive killer whale could mean our own redemption. What happens to them happens to us 25 May 2020
#Act4 FarmAnimals Anima International worked together with Greenpeace Poland to share what’s happening in the local community of Kruszyniany, where investors planned to build factory farms for broiler chickens. A Polish community’s struggle against industrial poultry farms 18 May 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Illegal fishing destroys marine habitats and threatens species living at sea. Now, though, the EU’s OCEAN SENTINEL project has developed the world’s first ocean surveillance system that enlists the help of seabirds. World's first seabird ocean surveillance system will fight illegal fishing 11 May 2020
#Act4 Wildlife Millions of live animals enter the U.S. each year without disease screening — leaving us vulnerable to another outbreak, a former wildlife inspector says. To prevent the next pandemic, it’s the legal wildlife trade we should worry about 7 May 2020
#Act4 Wildlife This webinar series aims to help participants to better understand and overcome barriers to investing in nature, and thereby facilitate investment in natural capital and biodiversity-related projects and innovations. European Investment Bank and EU B@B Platform to organise webinar series on financing investment in natural capital 4 May 2020