カテゴリー: Environmental activism
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney; then heading to MelbourneCounting and Cracking creator S Shakthidharan uses family and fable to examine epic ideas in this story of a community under threatGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailHaving made his name with…
Whaling activist Paul Watson celebrates release from jail after Denmark refuses extradition to Japan
US-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd, who was arrested in Greenland in July, will now spend Christmas with his sonsPaul Watson, the anti-whaling campaigner, has spoken of delight that he will be reunited with his young children for Christmas after Denma…
Documentary charts historic case of a community who sued arm of World Bank over a power plant’s impact on their livesEarly on in The Fisherman and the Banker, Ibrahim Saliman Manjalia, a charismatic fisher originally from Badreshwar, tells those gather…
Activists from the award-winning Mother Nature found guilty on charges of plotting against governmentTen activists from a prominent youth-led environmental group in Cambodia have been sentenced to between six and eight years in jail in a case human rig…
Saalumarada Thimmakka’s story of planting banyan trees led to a determined quest to find her, and a show about her lifeWhen she was a teenage girl, Saalumarada Thimmakka planted her first banyan tree just outside the remote Indian village of Hulikal, i…
Hong’s three-year sentence is the latest in a string of convictions for environmental campaigners in the countryA leading Vietnamese climate activist has been jailed for tax evasion, the latest environmentalist put behind bars by the country’s communis…
Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in FebruaryThe US government has said it is “deeply concerned” by the sentencing of the Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vi…
Environmental campaigners who worked with UK officials fear for their lives after receiving death threatsThe UK government has been accused of ignoring the plight of three environmental activists from Afghanistan who worked with British officials to mi…
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The Goldman environmental prize honours the achievements of grassroots activists in six continents, recognising their efforts to protect natural habitats and push for political change, often at great personal riskPlastic in paradise: Goldman prize winn…
As the first young person in China to engage in Greta Thunberg-inspired Fridays for Future climate strikes, Howey Ou says she has become a target for the authorities who see that activism as a challenge to their control.The 17-year-old claims…
Country’s youngest MP is on a mission, inspired by Greta Thunberg, as climate moves up political agendaA year ago, Soyoung Lee was one of a crowd of climate activists demonstrating on the streets of Seoul in a campaign inspired by the global school str…
Australian photographer Brian Cassey visits Hasdeo Arand, one of the largest contiguous stretches of dense forest in central India. The area is rich in biodiversity, containing many threatened species including elephants, leopards and sloth bears. A ra…
Zhao Jiaxin and Howey Ou are trying to convince Beijing to take radical carbon-cutting actionOne is a student engineer who became obsessed after watching an incendiary film about air pollution. The other is a 16-year-old who went on China’s first clima…