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A wind mill at the Parque Eólico Camilo Ortega Saavedra wind farm in the Department of Rivas, Nicaragua.

The new programme aims primarily to halt the decline of lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs and Ethiopian wolves, increasingly threatened by poaching, habitat fragmentation and human encroachment on wild habitats. Made possible by funding from the European Commission’s B4Life initiative, the SOS African Wildlife project will enable coordinated conservation work across the species’ natural habitats.

The Uganda National Teachers' Union (UNATU) programme against child labour in Erussi, close to the Congo border and located a nine hour drive from Kampala, and the second poorest district in Uganda, has changed the mindsets of parents and teachers towards education and child labour.

On April 5th, Earthjustice representing Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council asked a panel of three federal appeals court judges to order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to act based on its own scientific conclusions and permanently ban chlorpyrifos, a highly dangerous pesticide linked to many health hazards, particularly to children’s brains.

MEPs have approved €71,524,810 in EU aid to repair damage caused by floods in the UK from December 2015 to January 2016, drought and fires in Cyprus from October 2015 to June 2016 and fires on the Portuguese island of Madeira in August 2016, in a vote on Wednesday. The aid comes from the EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF).

As recipients of federal funds, the City and Port of Oakland have an obligation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to avoid causing an unjustified unequal impact on the basis of race.

MEPs oppose EU Commission plans to authorise imports of food and feed products derived from or containing a herbicide and pest-resistant genetically modified (GM) maize in a resolution voted on Wednesday.

Citing the potential for serious conflicts of interests, on April 5, Earthjustice launched a sunshine investigation into billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s role in the Trump administration’s anti-climate action agenda, filing a FOIA request seeking all communication related to environmental matters between Icahn and the Trump administration.

The Government of Bangladesh today signed a $113 million financing agreement with the World Bank to modernize the country’s meteorological and hydrological information system, including weather forecasting, early warning systems, and delivery of weather and climate services.