Year: 2013

A truly historic week for forests in Ireland

It's been a great couple of days for our forests across Ireland. Yesterday 19 June 2013, the Irish government abandoned its plans to sell the harvesting rights of our public forests and today Northern Ireland has more protection for its woodlands and forests. There is of course so much more to do, with how we…Read more A truly historic week for forests in Ireland

Austria set to lead on global law against Ecocide

Polly Higgin's work on a 'law to end ecocide' is about standing up to injustice, this time for our collective global environment. Her global campaign to end Ecocide is gathering further momentum.Recently she went to Vienna to give a speech ecocide to Austrian leaders. The Austrian Goverment is arranging cross-party political support to change the International Rome Statute to include Ecocide as an international crime.