UN: Native people’s rights violated in name of ‘conservation’
Some of the world’s leading conservation groups are violating the rights of indigenous people by backing projects that oust them from their ancestral homes in the name of environmental...
Rainbow Warriors for Solar Energy… from Beirut to COP22
Last week, a significant event took place at the Port of Beirut. Greenpeace ship “Rainbow Warrior” visited our country as part of a Mediterranean tour which will highlight the massive...
Applause for President Obama for Bringing Strong Conservation Message to Hawai’i
By Cristián Samper, WCS President and CEO, attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress: “WCS applauds President Obama for bringing attention to climate change’s immediate effects on Pacific...
Can We Save Venice Before It’s Too Late?
A deadly plague haunts Venice, and it’s not the cholera to which Thomas Mann’s character Gustav von Aschenbach succumbed in the Nobel laureate’s 1912 novella “Death in Venice.” A rapacious tourist...
Mangrove magic as one UAE island strives toward ecotourism
Thousands of mangroves are planted every year on Sir Bani Yas island and each one of them “belongs” to a tourist who has been there. Part of the environmental conservation programme of...
The swamphen makes its landing
In the distance, the ominous dome of Sizewell nuclear power station loomed large but not quite as impressively as the sinister shape creeping through the reeds that soon became dubbed the giant blue...
Elusive Arabian sand cat photographed in Abu Dhabi’s Western Region
For the first time in a decade, the elusive Arabian sand cat has been spotted and photographed in the deserts of the Western Region. Camera traps in the Baynouna protected areas, set by the...
Al Ain Zoo’s lowland gorilla Lady dies aged 41
Lady, the lowland gorilla, who has died at the age of 41, had plenty of friends at Al Ain Zoo to keep her company after the death of her longtime partner 18 years ago. After Maxi passed away from...
