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The Streisand effect bites Nestlé

By Nathan ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo. Oh dear, Nestlé. You didn’t learn anything from Trafigura did you. Despite getting Greenpeace’s video removed from YouTube, social media has once more made a fool out of a large, well-resourced company by spreading a message faster than their legal department can kill it. In fact, in [...]

The Nasca and us

By Nathan ⋅ November 13, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Ancient civilisations usually don’t get wiped out by just one thing, but the Rapa Nui of Easter Island and the Nasca of Peru both appear to have been undone by deforestation. What factors drove the destruction of the Nasca, and what is different 1500 years on?

One decade, 20000 orangutans killed

By Nathan ⋅ August 26, 2009 ⋅ One comment

A report just released by UK organisation Nature Alert in partnership with the Centre for Orangutan Protection highlights the plight of orangutans in Indonesia. In the last ten years, an estimated 20,000 orangutans have been killed or poached, and not a single prosecution has been brought against any of those responsible.

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