Major shipping company slows down to protect whales
But progress to reduce vessel speed is a happening far too slowly despite multiple environmental benefits There is no doubt that technical progress will, or [...]
A LOOK BACK ON ACTIVITIES OF THE SHIFTING VALUES TEAM 2022
OCEAN CONSERVATION As part of the OceanCare team, we are happy to see some positive developments in marine conservation. Changing course to avoid collisions [...]
Climate Change Forces us Towards Radically Local Survival
News from the United Nations about the shortfall in national emission pledges—that there is ‘no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place’—is echoing across the world. [...]
Despite leaving, Japan still pulls the strings within Whaling Commission: IWC to start in Slovenia.
Portorož, Slovenia, 17th October 2022. - At its last meeting in 2018, the IWC adopted the “Florianópolis Declaration” setting the course for maintaining the ban [...]
FIRE. The Book.
On January 3rd, 2020, a wall of fire sweeps over the Prideauxs' home, their livelihood. It is one of more than 3,000 homes leveled by [...]
OceanCare – Generation change
On 1 January 2022, Fabienne McLellan will take over as managing director of OceanCare, the international marine conservation organisation founded by Sigrid Lüber in 1989. [...]
Which banks are financing animal suffering?
As we had worked many years on the issue of animal welfare and international financial institutions, we were particularly happy when the international animal welfare [...]
Vaquita – losing the struggle for survival
It’s 30 years now that the Vaquita, a small porpoise species restricted to the northern Gulf of California, Mexico, was classified as “endangered” on the [...]
The rainforest menu
It’s quite amazing. You can hardly look into any environmental problem without coming upon the meat issue. Same recently with the lawsuit filed by the [...]
Environmental destruction – a crime against humanity
ALL RI§E files charges at International Criminal Court On Tuesday, 12th of October 2021, the newly founded non-profit organisation ALL RI§E submitted its complaint against [...]