By Julie Boukobza, GLOBUS Correspondent When buying flowers, we may imagine them to come from nice locally grown flower farms, straight from the ground and bathed in sunshine. For most of the flowers you will see in your everyday shop, however, this is not the case. The UK accounts for 17% of worldwide cut flower... Continue Reading →
The Real Risks of a post Brexit UK-USA Trade Deal
By Silia Tsigka, GLOBUS Corresponsent With the UK now officially out of world's largest trading block, attention is turning towards what the alternatives will be. In this article, Silia Tsigska explores what leaked documents from US-UK trade talks could mean for our environment, and the efforts to protect it. The defeat of Jeremy Corbyn and... Continue Reading →
Facing Illegal Poaching: Supply and Governance
By Maya Suzuki, GLOBUS Correspondent An “astonishing number of pictures of dead elephants”, describes Thato Raphaka, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism (Leithead, 2019). Provoking, the evidence was taken in one of the last elephant sanctuaries in Africa, in northern Botswana. Eighty-eight carcasses of elephants, most of them with... Continue Reading →
Deforestation and the Illegal Charcoal Trade in the Horn of Africa
By Safiya Hassan, GLOBUS Correspondent In October 2018, a ship carrying 200,000 bags of charcoal was intercepted in the strategic Iraqi port of Umm Qasri, located in the Persian Gulf (Xinhua,2018). These bundles of charcoal were believed to have been sourced from the prized, and rapidly decreasing, species of Acacia, known as Acacia Bussei, and... Continue Reading →