Environment

New UN-backed report finds ‘alarmingly high’ levels of elephant poaching across Africa

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Elephant poaching and ivory smuggling levels remain alarmingly high at over 20,000. More large ivory...

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Food Safety: 35 years protecting human and animal health

Europe is more than ever reliant on its Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) to ensure that our food meets some of the highest food safety standards in the world. Besides its main role of ensuring food safety since its creation 35 years ago, a...

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Thirteen sites added to UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves

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Alexander Ivasenko - Colony of Larus ichthyaetus (Shalyga Island) - Ak-Zhayik (Kazakhstan)

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Member states agree on right to ban GMO cultivation at national level

After three years of stalemate, environment ministers are expected to agree on a draft law which allegedly gives EU countries the right to stop genetically modified (GM) crops from being grown on their land. Greenpeace warns that the compromise text...

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