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PENDING PROACT CAMPAIGNS
[NO action planned/required at present - but useful
reference material if reactivated]
The slaughter goes on on Malta ...in
spring and autumn..
... STOP ILLEGAL SPRING HUNTING - NOW!
Present plans for Via Baltica threaten
endangered species .....
... lobby the Polish Govt. to shelve plans until a strategic environmental assessment has been made!
Chaffinch trapping in Flanders, Belgium..
... join protest against reintroduction of song bird trapping
Badger digging out in France..
... Support French conservationist efforts to have this cruel sport
banned
New legislation to give mining rights
priority will weaken habitat protection..
... Slovak conservationosts need our support - now!
Woodcock conservation ... support efforts of Wallonian conservationists to
extend protection of the species
Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan (Baratphur)
Help
to campaign for measures to restore and maintain this important global wetland
In 1999 Tilos won the esteemed Greek Nature Eco-prize...
... for banning hunting. In 2004 the new Greek Government are discussing
permitting scores of hunters from elsewhere to hunt again on the island. Help prevent this retrograde step.
Government of Saxony plans to persecute
cormorants..
... lobby the state government of Saxony to drop their plans to permit widespread hunting of cormorants - in nature reserves
as well!!!
New proposals for the Lewis wind farm
attracts renewed criticism from RSPB and other conservationists in endangered
bird species habitats..
... please add your objection to the new proposals.
Malta must enforce EU regulations... we must put pressure
on the EU not to let Malta get away with sloppy enforcement. Degorations for spring hunting and finch trapping must be rejected
Alarming news (August 2005) from the DANUBE DELTA
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... renewed dredging operations must be stopped by President Yuschenko
Proposed airport site at Ciudad Real
threatens integrity of SPA and IBA..
... home to several important populations of steppe bird species
such as Great Bustard , Little Bustard, Stone-Curlew, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse and Lesser Kestrel.
Appeal to the European Commission against
windfarm development .in endangered bird species habitats..
... the UK and Scottish regional authorities must be made to comply
with EC Bird and habitat directives!
More plans to erect 133 wind turbines on the Isle of Lewis...
... threatening rare birds, habitats and the natural beauty of the
Isle of Lewis on the Scottish Atlantic coast.
Norway hunts its Wolves to death
The government is following a policy of extermination for Canis lupus lupus
A CHANCE AFTER ALL FOR THE DANUBE
DELTA?
lobby the new President, Viktor Yuschenko, to reverse the plans of the former
corrupt government.
The
biodiversity of the Ørin Delta ...
... an important transit area for sea ducks and Ramsar site in Central
Norway is threatened by local development plans which are among the worst current environmental threats in the
country.
The Carpathian Brown Bear is in danger of extermination
through excessive hunting, mismanagement and widespread corruption...
Wind Turbine Death Trap on the "Via Pontica"?
support the Bulgarian
Bird Protection Society's campaign to prevent the construction of a wind farm on Europe's second most important migration
flyway for soaring bird species ...
Greenland - Protect the Seabirds
Spring
hunting must NOT be permitted to resume!
Italy - The constant campaign against illegal hunting
Keep the pressure up to prevent a weakening of the hunting laws (Jan-Mar 2005)
A new court ruling has given hope to
Saemangeum campaigners
.... keep the pressure up to reinforce the campaign to save the
world's most important staging site for the fast-declining Spoon-billed Sandpiper an other wetland birds
"Pajero cowboys" set to wreak havoc in the NE Italian
steppe
the regional authorities must fulfil their environmental protection duties...
Join Harrison Ford and Cameron Diaz in the Race to Save the Scarlet Macaw in Belize
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and stop economic and environmental exploitation of the third world by a multinational company!
Lobby the President of the Ukraine once more to prevent irreversible
damage to the DANUBE DELTA ...
... before he accepts the disastrous recommendations of the Ministry of Transport
The Tunkinsky National Park on the shores of Lake Baikal
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in Siberia is threatened by plans by the Russian oil giant YUKOS to build an oil
pipeline through the park.
Malta - No Spring hunting
Malta should not be exempted from provisions of the EU Bird Directives. Please keep your support going.
Urgent action must be taken to conserve the BELOVEZHSKAYA
PUSHCHA primeval forest
In the second half of last year alone more than 100
000 cubic metres (300 hectares) of valuable wood were logged in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The survival of this ancient forest, with its richly
diverse flora and fauna, is critically endangered.
Iceland - The last European wilderness?
ALCOA, the aluminium giant, has now taken over Norsk Hydro's role in planning for developments which will
destroy part of the Iceland wilderness
Zino's Petrel
The breeding site of the last 20-30 surviving pairs of Pterodroma madeira is threatened by plans
for a NATO radar site...
Lobby EU ministers - before their meeting in Kiev at the
end of May ...
to stop despoilation of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve where 257 species of birds can
to be found; 9 of them on the European Red List ...
Cyprus - Trapping of Ambelopoulia...
for sale and consumption. Progress - but the campaign is not over yet!
Toxic Chemicals
Campaign for the phasing out of toxic chemicals in Europe - and set an example for the rest of the world.
Goolengook old growth forest
Over 300 rare and threatened plant and animal species, found within the region's one million hectares
of forest, are threated by logging operations.
Wildlife in the Wadden Sea
Wintering Red-throated and Black-throated Loons - and the Harbour Porpoise - need effective protection ...
Keep our seas clean ...
The
only responsible reaction to the Prestige oil-spill disaster is to urgently bring about a fundamental change in the way the
international shipping is practised and regulated.
N@C - No airport at Cliffe
Protest against the British Govts inclusion of a site of international importance for wildlife in plans
for a new London airport.
The German Coalition Government is dragging
its heels on revision of the Hunting Law ..
... if they do not fulfil election pronises and give this matter priority the future of the hard fought
for European Bird and Habitat Directives could be undermined!
Gulls and Cormorants under attack in Italy
parliamentary committee consider Bill on delegation to the regions of control policies. The old, old story...
The spectacular wetlands of the Ebro Delta are threatened
if we conservationists don't act the delta will dry up, erode and eventually vanish. The consequences of this are obvious ...
Malta - can anything be done to stop the killing?
The European Union must take positive action before Malta's accession
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