Rio +20: What did you expect?
Rio +20: What did you expect? It’s over. The long-awaited Earth Summit. By most standards, the event, which brought official delegates from 188 countries- including 100 heads of state- was a monumental let-down. Greenpeace called it a “failure of epic proportions”. The normally conservative CARE, considered it a political charade. The results were so bad [...]
IV International Wildlife Management Congress 2012
On July 9-12, 2012 in Durban, South Africa an event will be held for Wildlife Professionals. This event will explore rising world population, competition for resources and space between humans and wildlife. Today, human-wildlife interactions are more common than ever before. In an effort to retain vital biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, we need to explore [...]
Bangladesh could face a protracted political crisis
Bangladesh: Back to the Future Bangladesh could face a protracted political crisis in the lead-up to the 2013 elections unless Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government changes course and takes a more conciliatory approach towards the political opposition and the military. In December 2008, following two years of a military-backed caretaker government, the Awami League (AL) [...]
Egypt in the middle of.. eh in the middle of what?
Uncertainty, that is probably the one word that comes to mind when thinking about Egypt this Saturday evening. On Friday a new massive demonstration was held at Tahrir against. A protest against SCAF, against the new additions it introduced to the constitution whereby it gave itself the last word in almost everything and certainly in [...]
U.S. Hand in Honduran Massacre
Hilda Lezama was taking passengers back upriver to the township of Ahuas after a fishing expedition in a remote area of the Mosquito Coast in Honduras. In the pre-dawn darkness, she could hear the helicopters buzzing overhead, but she thought nothing of it at first. Suddenly, bullets shot from U.S. State Department helicopters with DEA [...]
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