Standing up for the Trees!
Communities stand up for the trees! Communities are best placed to monitor their forests because they live in the forests, depend on forest resources and readily notice threat and changes that occur in such forests. When…
System Change Will Not be Negotiated
System Change will not be Negotiated[1] — We frequently hear calls for system change at public mobilisations, in conference halls and even in negotiation halls. The calls come as slogans, they come in anger and the…
The Long, winding Superhighway
The Long, winding Superhighway. The controversy surrounding the 260 km Superhighway proposed by the Cross River State government (CRSG) of Nigeria will not go away. Notably, the bulldozing of forests, farmlands and sundr…
Prodigal Environmental Stewards
Prodigal Environmental Stewards Guest lecture[1] by Nnimmo Bassey Let me begin by thanking the Board of Bassey Andah Foundation for giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on the Nigerian environment on this auspi…
Viva Acción Ecológica!
This is a thank you note from Acción Ecológica. Your solidarity helped stop the closure of this frontline Ecuadorian environmental justice organisation. We join them to say a big thank you and to echo their words: ‘…
A Salute to Human Resilience
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity –Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013. The world is witnessing an onslaught against human rights defenders perhaps more than at any other time in history. …
Clean Up Ogoni!
Clean Up Ogoni! With the exception of Ogoniland, oil is still being produced in the Niger Delta, and the environment as well as residents’ health is being affected by oil spills and the flaring of natural gas. Will the “…
20 years of Oilwatching
Oilwatch International was formally inaugurated in 1996 in Quito, Ecuador. Oilwatch has remained a network driven by the conviction that the petroleum civilisation is driving humans to the precipice. This forward-looking…
Ecocide, Genocide from AgriToxics
Dr Jayasumana noted that in most things, Asian, African and Latin American countries follow the West. He, however, pleaded that in the case of Monsanto’s RoundUp all communities should follow Sri Lanka. Mons…
Praise for Oil Politics
Praise for Oil Politics – Echoes of Ecological Wars: This is what highly respected thinkers and writers have to say about this new book. Get a copy and share your own thoughts! Nnimmo Bassey embodies the thinker, w…
Flying on Lake Turkana to Turkana
Flying on Lake Turkana to Turkana – Interconnectivity of struggles – part 2 Sometime in 2017 Kenya will begin to pump crude oil in commercial quantities. For some years now prospecting companies have been p…
Deconsecrated for Coal
Deconsecrated for Coal: Interconnectivity of struggles – part 1 One of the most jolting statements I have heard in recent times was at a Climate Camp, and Summer School on Skills for System Change, in Rhineland, wh…
Only tests can assure Nigerians there is no GMO rice in Nigeria, says HOMEF
Only tests can assure Nigerians there is no GMO rice in Nigeria, says HOMEF HOMEF and other concerned groups are concerned that our regulatory agencies, such as NBMA and the NationalAgency for Food and Drug Administrati…
A Vote Against Genetic Extinction Technologies
Governments and NGOs Vote Against Genetic Extinction TechnologiesPotentially Dangerous Genetic Engineering Tool Rejected by International Group of Scientists, Conservationists, and Leading Environmental Advocates OAHU, H…
Nigerian Biotech Experts Met
When Nigerian Biotech Experts Met. If anyone needs sensitisation in Nigeria about GMOs, it is the biotech promoters. They need to be sensitised that Nigerians don’t want GMOs and certainly do not want to be ambushe…
