The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) recently published its latest information about military spending in the world. The total figure of global expenditure in 2012 was estimated to be…
I was on the web the other day, and came across the latest news for the World Nature Organisation (http://www.worldnature.org/). This is a relatively new initiative, launched in 2010 by…
The European Crop Protection Agency (ECPA) organised its second “Hungry for Change” conference in Brussels last Thursday 11 April. The meeting brought together nearly 250 people from all walks of life…
Remember Russell Crowe in “The Insider”? The film was a dramatic representation of the cigarette industry efforts to influence public opinion and promote the sale of cigarettes. Matt Damon is trying to…
For the last weeks, I have been busy checking fact and figures about wetlands. I learned a lot! Did you know that an oasis is a wetland? And did you…
During the last weeks, there has been a lot of press about the effects of pesticides, especially neonicotinoid components, on pollinators and in particular on honeybees. My wife is called…
For the past months, I participated in a very interesting debate between natural resources managers on LinkedIn, which started with the question “is biodiversity dead?” The debate revolved around the…
Many cities have old tram lines or railway tracks that are no longer used, because they have become unprofitable, or have ended up in the wrong place. If these old…
Most of the UK press and many of the papers in Switzerland where I live have been pre-occupied in the past weeks with the fact that beef lasagne and other…
We so often talk about the fact that nature conservation and biodiversity are too low on the political and economic agenda to get the attention they deserve. I just came…
