The Styrian Mur is one of the last large alpine rivers in Austria that provides a habitat for a large population of huchen. In almost almost all others, it has become extinct due to interventions mainly for energy production. Despite this enormous importance for nature, there are concrete plans to build new power plants. This […]
To the governments and members of parliament of Iceland, Norway, Scotland and Ireland: Petition text As concerned citizens from across Europe, we urge you to bring a halt to the devastation of wild fish and surrounding ecosystems caused by open net salmon farms. We call on you to impose an immediate ban on new […]
Sign the petition now to stop devastating hydropower dams in the Balkans. #thedamtruth is that Europe’s last wild rivers are on the verge of irreversible destruction. Sign the petition Patagonia is hand delivering your signatures to a key financial player, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, on June 20. #savetheblueheart Learn […]
Hydropower dams and diversions are not a clean, green energy source, but rather the only “renewable” energy source sending species to extinction, displacing people and exacerbating climate change. Learn More More than 3,000 hydropower dams and river-draining diversions are either proposed or in the process of being built on the wild rivers of the Balkans—the […]
The Cetina river in Croatia is under threat from a gas-fired thermal power plant, which is to be constructed on the Peruća Lake. It would discharge warm water, devastating the biosystems of the Peruća Lake and the Cetina River. Moreover, the thermal power plant would discharge 280,000 litres of waste water containing […]
A formal petition, lodged in the Scottish Parliament in February 2016 by Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland, seeking protection for wild salmonids from sea lice from Scottish salmon farms, has resulted in MSPs launching an Inquiry into the salmon farming industry in Scotland. Read more: http://www.salmon-trout.org/stcs-campaign-and-petition-leads-to-parliamentary-inquiry-into-scottish-salmon-farming/news/440. National survey identifies lethal problems below the surface of […]
An appeal to all anglers from the Angling Trust Please act now to to stop bass netting and get a fairer deal for sea anglers. Sign the petition and share on your Facebook page. Across Northern Europe, sea bass stocks are in deep trouble because of commercial overfishing and the repeated failure of politicians […]
Hello, Over 112,000 people have signed this petition to the provincial government of British Columbia. Thank you ! Now another push is needed. Canada will be voting on a federal bill to remove salmon farms from the ocean, we need to speak louder than the Norwegian/Japanese salmon farmers. This is not easy because somehow the […]
A letter from Alexandra Morton from the 13th of April, she has been fighting salmon farms on the west coast of Canada for many years now: Hello, I am writing to let you know a Canadian Liberal Member of Parliament has given us the opportunity to tell Canada to “Legislate the removal of caged salmon […]