Finless porpoises: when yesterday’s poetry speaks today’s truth
Brazilwood: a colonial refrain
Press release CITES CoP 20 n°1
October 30, 2025
On the eve of the 20th Conference of the Parties to CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), to be held in Uzbekistan, from November 24 to December 5, 2025, the maestros and the coalition of violon and other bowed stringed instrument bow makers (1) are once again beginning to sing their laments. For decades, they have refused to develop an alternative to the use of Brazilwood for bows. They are digging in their heels.
The German Navy lands in Turkey
Deutsche Marine has just sent to Aliaga for demolition, 7 missile patrol boats commissioned between 1982 and 1984 and decommissioned in 2015 and 2016. The Puma, Hermelin, Zobel, Frettchen, Ozelot, Wiesel and Hyaene (58 metres long, 350 tonnes) were loaded on August 11 in Kiel onto the Happy Sky, a Dutch flag vessel specialising in the transport of heavy goods, and unloaded on September 1 in the cargo port of Aliaga. They are now being towed to the demolition yards.
