HONG KONG, January 6, 2023 (ENS) – The Hong Kong government on Thursday announced the successful offering of US$5.75 billion worth of Green Bonds. The triple-currency offering is the largest Environmental, Social, and Governance, ESG, bond issuance in Asia, according to a statement from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, HKSAR, of China. […]
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 11, 2019 (ENS) – The world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment opened in Nairobi today with a moment of silence for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines ET302 accident, which happened Sunday morning. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 24, 2018 (ENS) – The Goldman Environmental Foundation Monday announced seven recipients of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest award for grassroots environmental activists. The honor comes with a no-strings-attached award of US$175,000 per recipient. […]
HONG KONG, February 5, 2018 (ENS) – The Hong Kong Legislative Council has voted to pass a bill that will end local ivory trade in Hong Kong by the end of 2021, with no compensation for ivory dealers, and an increase of maximum penalties for wildlife crimes of up to 10 years imprisonment. […]
HONG KONG, China, May 15, 2014 (ENS) – The Hong Kong government today began the destruction of its giant ivory stockpile in a message to elephant poachers and illegal ivory traders that illegal ivory has no commercial value and their activities will not be tolerated. […]
HONG KONG, China, January 24, 2014 (ENS) – Acting against a centuries-old tradition of carving ivory into religious objects, the Hong Kong government Thursday decided to destroy one of the world’s largest ivory stockpiles as a deterrent to poachers who kill up to 96 elephants a day across Africa. […]
TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, December 28, 2012 (ENS) – China’s coral reefs have declined by 80 percent in the past three decades, destroyed by the consequences of economic development, finds a new international scientific study. […]
HONG KONG, China, August 14, 2012 (ENS) – Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying says he supports the investigation into who is responsible for the plastic pellet spill, in which around 150 tonnes of plastic were dumped into the sea. […]
HONG KONG, China, August 8, 2012 (ENS) – Containers full of plastic pellets swept from a ship during Typhoon Vicente last month have broken open, scattering the pellets at sea and on at least 10 Hong Kong beaches. […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 19, 2025 (ENS) – A new investigative report has laid bare the scale and complexity of wildlife trafficking across southern Africa, exposing a tangled web of corruption, organized crime and systemic failures that are eroding conservation efforts and fueling illicit markets. […]
LYON, France, March 9, 2025 (ENS) – Some
20,000 live animals, all endangered or protected species, have been seized during Operation Thunder, the biggest global crackdown against wildlife and forestry trafficking networks in history, jointly coordinated by Interpol and the World Customs Organization. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 5, 2025 (ENS) – The Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings said Tuesday that it will sell all shares in its subsidiaries Hutchison Port Holdings and Hutchison Port Group Holdings to a consortium that includes the U.S. company BlackRock Inc. in a deal valued at close to US$23 billion that carries $5 billion in debt. […]
VALENZUELA CITY, Philippines, July 7, 2023 (ENS) – The days when law enforcement agencies and courts turned a blind eye to wildlife trafficking are now history. A court in the Philippines has sent an online trafficker to jail for illegally selling Critically Endangered Chinese Giant Salamanders, marking a win against online wildlife crime […]
RIVERDALE, Maryland, January 31, 2023 (ENS) – Wild birds and commercially raised chickens alike are dropping dead from bird flu by the millions across the United States. Red-tailed hawks and great horned owls in Wyoming, American and Canadian wild birds along the Atlantic coast and across the Midwest, and 58.2 million birds in commercial and backyard poultry flocks in 47 states have died in the past year… […]
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April 26, 2022 (ENS) – The State of Maryland has requested that the Evergreen Shipping Agency pay $100 million as a “Responsibility Fund” against the damages to the […]
LYON, France, March 6, 2022 (ENS) – Africa’s elephants top a packed agenda for the CITES Standing Committee meeting opening Monday that covers protection for 30+ species of plants and animals. Delegates will consider the live trade in elephants, management of ivory stockpiles, and the closure of domestic ivory markets. […]
NEW YORK, New York, August 20, 2021 (ENS) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced a $31 million investment to bring six new cities on three continents into its Partnership for Healthy Cities network – Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland. […]
PARIS, France, August 3, 2021 (ENS) – Sheltering endangered animals, birds and butterflies, giant trees, pristine waters – five natural sites are so precious to the world that they deserve the protection of World Heritage status, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided. The five are now on the list, bringing the number of World Heritage natural sites to 218. […]
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