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Stop Oil Exploration in Africa's Oldest National Park
Fishers Unite! All Pictures from Enanga.org It is abnormal for a fisher or fishing community to depend on imported fish for protein. It is an unhappy situation when an experienced fisherman returns from a fishing trip with only flotsam or other debris, including plastics, in the nets. Unfortunately, this is the reality facing fishers in… Read More
It was believed that Virunga was saved after the withdrawal in 2015 of the oil company Soco who wanted to drill in the park. It was an illusion: Kinshasa has been negotiating the renewal of the controversial permit to an offshore oil company. It was June 2014. At that time, the British firm Soco International, after an… Read More
Every day we hear that the integrity of a protected area is being challenged by the expansion of infrastructure and industrial activities such as oil, gas and mining exploration. SERIES Park and Species Endangered
Le pétrole déversé depuis 50 ans dans le sud du Nigeria pourrait exiger la plus vaste opération de nettoyage jamais entreprise dans le monde. Cette affirmation du Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE) est le fruit d’une étude scientifique sur les dégâts environnementaux dans le delta du Niger, dont les résultats ont été présentés… Read More
Sunday Agabe, pêcheur à Bodo et sa famille ont sombré dans la pauvreté suite aux déversements de pétrole non nettoyés par la compagnie Shell au Nigeria. VIDÉOS Pollution pétrolière au Nigeria : comment gagner sa vie dignement ? travail, votre moyen de gagner votre vie dignement soit du jour au lendemain détruit par le pétrole. C… Read More
Source: WorsethanBad On 30 January 2013 in The Hague a Dutch judge will rule in a special court case that four Nigerian farmers and Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) jointly brought against Shell Nigeria and its parent company Royal Dutch Shell in 2008. Shell is held accountable for oil pollution in the Nigerian villages… Read More
Nnimmo Bassey: Oil companies are destroying lives Coming from a country where an equivalent of one Exxon Valdez volume of crude oil is spewed into our environment yearly, it is inescapably clear that the petroleum sector is a very polluting one. It is obvious that there cannot be this level of ecological impunity without human… Read More
Pour visualiser tout le documentaire: Nigeria: l’eternelle maree noire Le festival international du film écologique de Bourges, qui s’est tenu du 6 au 9 octobre, a récompensé “Nigeria : l’éternelle marée noire” des prix de “l’Arbre d’or” et du “meilleur reportage”. De Yann Le Gléau et Sébastien Mesquida – ARTE GEIE / What’s Up Productions… Read More
Oil: a financing method of armed groups, will it bring peace to Virunga? International Relations specialist Achim Wennmann’s investigated the economic dimensions of armed groups. His study reveals a wide variety of financing methods used by armed groups and state actors in conflict zones like eastern DRC. Insights are provided on how the presence of… Read More
Remember Kenule “Ken” Beeson Saro Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been… Read More
In Memory of Chris Hondros – Chris Hondros died April 20, 2011 while on assignment in Libya. Watch the PHOTO SERIE – The Price of Oil Nigeria should be a massively rich country. It’s the most populous country in Africa, and is the world’s sixth leading oil producer. Over a quarter trillion dollars in oil… Read More
The Ogoniland region of Nigeria has long been badly polluted by decades of oil production that has fouled the delta and contaminated drinking water. A United Nations report has recommended a massive recovery initiative, but so far the Nigerian government has shown few signs it will agree to the cleanup project. by fred pearce Over… Read More
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