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“On the Trail” n°43
Quarterly information and analysis report on endangered animals poaching and smuggling

Poaching is not a movie

“On the Trail” n°42
Quarterly information and analysis report on endangered animals poaching and smuggling
(pdf, 177 pages – 5.4 Mo)

1,062 events with references, checked, analysed, commented and strengthened
between September 1 and October 31, 2023.
215 iconographic documents, 7 maps and historical archives.
880 sources.

“Shipbreaking” #72
the Bulletin of information and analysis on end-of-life ships
April-May-June-July-August-September 2024
97 pages – 128 sources (16.8 Mo)

69th IWC – Press release n°3

– The resolution on the contribution of whales to food security stranded behind the scenes and did not make it to the debating table. Despite Japanese and Norwegian propaganda, more and more members of the human species are refusing to include whale meat in their diet (1).

– At the initiative of the European Union, the resolution recalling the obligation set under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to cooperate with a view to the conservation of marine mammals and work through the appropriate international organizations was accepted by 37 votes in favour, 12 against and 8 abstentions. Iceland, Norway and Japan, which openly hunt whales for commercial purposes in violation of the moratorium, are signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

69th IWC – Press release n°2

The Euphausia superba, Antarctica’s superb little crustacean, a pillar of the South Pole ecosystem and a staple food for whales, penguins, seals, petrels and other seabirds, is in danger. It may join the dodos, the American migratory pigeons and the great auks of the North Atlantic, deemed to be innumerable and now extinct because of human voracity and short-sightedness.

69th IWC – Press release n°1

The 69th plenary meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will be held in Lima, Peru, from 23 to 27 September 2024.

A draft resolution on “food security” is submitted for approval to the 88 member countries of the IWC by the Republic of Guinea, with the support of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, the Republic of Congo, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Cambodia. This project “reaffirms its support for the sustainable use of marine living resources, including whales”.

Only in French.

“On the Trail” n°41
the defaunation bulletin
(pdf, 230 pages – 7.9 Mo)

1,438 events with references, checked, analysed, commented and strengthened
between June 1 and August 31, 2023.
304 iconographic documents, 11 maps and historical archives.

Update July 30, 2024 – 2:30pm. PCBs, lead, PAHs, PFAS, E-coli + storms: Robin des Bois calls for cancellation of triathlon and marathon swimming events in the Seine in Paris. Athletes are not guinea pigs condemned to hard labor.

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The aquatic displays by Ms Oudéa-Castéra, Minister for Sports and the Olympic Games, and Ms Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, demonstrate the political class’ accommodation with persistent chemical pollution. They are encouraging the general public to do the same, with no regard for health and safety. The statements made by some of the athletes invited to the Seine for the 1.5-km triathlon on 30 and 31 July and 5 August and the 10-km marathon swimming on 8 and 9 August are worrying. They say they are used to diving into dirty water and getting trash mouthfuls when swimming. They are being thrown into the murky waters of the Seine by the sports federations and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Organising Committee.

Only in French.