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• Biodiversity (EU)

  A third of Europe’s birds under threat, says most comprehensive study yet

  14 May 2015, by NESLEN Arthur

  Deteriorating natural habitats and declining wildlife populations found in wide-ranging survey of Europe’s countryside.
  One in three European birds is endangered, according to a leaked version of the most comprehensive study of Europe’s wildlife and natural habitats ever produced.
  The EU State (...)

• Biodiversity (EU)

  Protection of biodiversity in Europe: 100 British conservation groups oppose review of EU wildlife laws

  12 May 2015, by NESLEN Arthur

  Changes to EU birds and habitat directives ‘single biggest threat’ to biodiversity and species, say groups as they launch their campaign to block the move.
  One hundred British conservationist groups have launched a campaign to oppose a review of key wildlife protection laws which they say (...)

• Biodiversity (EU)

  Biodiversity: Nearly one in 10 of Europe’s wild bee species face extinction, says study

  19 March 2015, by NESLEN Arthur

  First ever assessment of all Europe’s 1,965 bee species finds them in dramatic decline, with intensive farming, insecticide use and climate change blamed.
  Europe’s wild bee population is in dramatic decline with nearly one in 10 species facing the threat of extinction, according to the first (...)

• Biodiversity (EU)

  “Pricing the earth": Sign-On Open Letter to EC Environment Commissioner

  21 May 2010, by Collective / Multiple signers

  The letter reproduced below is addressed to the EC Commissioner for the Environment on Green Wash ‘Policy Summit’ entitled “Pricing the earth: How business can protect and profit from biodiversity” which will be held in Brussels on June 1^st and 2^nd as part of the Commission’s Green Week 2010. (...)