Part of the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island is home to more than eight million breeding birds from at least 24 different species, including highly threatened species such as the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, Atlantic petrel, MacGillivray’s prion, Gough bunting and Tristan albatross.
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The Critically Endangered Tristan albatross, one of the world’s greatest wanderers, is in need of an eleventh-hour intervention.
Mice were accidentally introduced by sailors to the remote Gough Island during the 19th century. These rodents have now colonised this World Heritage Site and learnt to exploit all available food sources on the island – including seabirds. Video cameras reveal how the mice eat the flesh of live seabird chicks – and, more recently, live adult birds too. Tristan albatross chicks weigh up to 10kg (more…
Muslims allegedly being treated badly in China? ..Terrible human rights atrocities that need to be stopped.
Muslims being bombed, murdered and driven from their homes in Gaza? .. Meh, they’re anti-Israel terrorists.
As Gaza burns and rages on, and Palestinians’ homes are turned into their graves, the West’s two-faced hypocrisy towards Muslims has never been clearer.
Unsurprisingly, despite the climbing death toll, condemnation from the West at Israel’s military action has been non-existent.
Amsterdam. On Saturday June 12 (02:00 p. m. 14:00), the Vrije Bond Amsterdam is organising a demonstration for anarchy at the Mercatorplein in Amsterdam.
We’ve seen the anarchist movement growing for quite a while now and we want to show our strength on the streets. The Vrije Bond is growing with more members, expanding is functions and more and more local and thematic groups are joining up!
Palestinian rights groups called the planned arrest of up to 500 protesters — on charges ranging from attacks on the police to vandalism to online incitement — a blatant crackdown on dissent, timed to coincide with the dimming of the global spotlight on the conflict.
– “…Andre Vltchek’s purpose in life was to royally piss off the people who misrule the world. Based in Lebanon, he was a scourge of the Zionist genocide perpetrators. In places like Latin America, Indonesia, and Thailand, he documented the horrors of US imperial mass murder and destruction of culture, savaging complicit local elites”.. Andre Vltchek Dead—Murdered by NATO/Zionists? – By KEVIN BARRETT.
Andre Vltchek one of the most important voices of the 21st century. Dead already.
Andre Vltchek, globetrotting scourge of the Western power elite, mysteriously dropped dead while riding in a chauffeured car between Samsun and Istanbul.ABC Newsreports:
Turkish authorities are investigating the death of an American author and…
A project of eight years of life for the recovery of the rural space.
Thanks to a document officially issued by the Criminal Court No. 1 of Guadalajara on April 29th, the Fraguas inhabitants learned that the demolition of the village is temporarily suspended.
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It is a change of judicial criteria that has been achieved by the struggle and the legal battle that its inhabitants have been defending for years and that temporarily stops the execution of the sentence of demolition of the village.
For those who do not know the trajectory of this community project of Fraguas, this rural squatting initiative was launched in 2013 in a small abandoned hamlet in the Sierra Norte of the province of Guadalajara.
This village, which dates back to the 12th century, was evicted during the Franco dictatorship in 1968 for the monoculture of pine and its subsequent sale to the timber industry.