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Orange roughy – a ‘sustainable’ fish certification too far.

Posted by Willie Mackenzie - 21st June 2016
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Orange roughy are easy to over fish. So, humans do. But that doesn’t seem to be stopping moves to re-define them as ‘sustainable’ by the Marine Stewardship Council. True, when we started fishing orange roughy we didn’t know that this slow-growing, long-lived, deep water fish was… Read More

Sumatran rhino found while forest habitat is lost

Posted by Jamie Woolley - 30th March 2016
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Good news for rhino fans: last week, researchers announced the first live encounter with a Sumatran rhino in Borneo for over 40 years. But the human pressures that have pushed this species to the brink of extinction are still very much in play. An excited WWF team released… Read More