by DGR News Service | Jan 31, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, NEWS, Obstruction & Occupation
Editor’s note: This piece draws links between struggles against extraction projects and other land destruction related to fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy technologies alike. Around the world, people are struggling to protect the land and water...
by DGR News Service | Jan 11, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
Editor’s note: one of the worst environmental disasters that nearly no-one has heard of is “habitat fragmentation.” Many ecologists believe that habitat fragmentation is the single most serious threat to biological diversity and is the primary cause...
by DGR News Service | Jan 10, 2022 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling
Editor’s note: Already threatened by overfishing, acidification, overheating, the collapse of coral reefs, declining plankton populations, plastic pollution, and deep sea oil drilling, the world’s oceans now face a new threat: mining, disguised as...
by DGR News Service | Dec 30, 2021 | Indirect Action, The Solution: Resistance, Toxification
Florence Nightingale, the English pioneer of modern nursing is quoted as saying, “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Editors note: Never give up your agency. If your goal is to save life on the planet, sometimes you have to sink your own...
by DGR News Service | Dec 29, 2021 | Indigenous Autonomy, Mining & Drilling, Movement Building & Support
This story first appeared in Mongabay. By Nick Rodway The Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, one of the country’s most ecologically and culturally significant waterways, is facing proposals of further agriculture and mining development,...
by DGR News Service | Dec 28, 2021 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Indirect Action, Lobbying, The Problem: Civilization
This story first appeared in Center for Biological Diversity. SAN DIEGO, Calif.— After nearly 30 years of petitions and lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected one of Southern California’s rarest butterflies,...