15 Jan 2009
Shoppers demand supermarket watchdog
Eight in 10 shoppers want a watchdog appointed to monitor and penalise supermarkets which treat suppliers unfairly, a poll commissioned by Traidcraft, says today.
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8 Jan 2009
UNICEF embarks on one of largest child vaccination campaigns ever
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has embarked on one of the largest vaccination campaigns in the history of the Central African Republic (CAR), aiming to give 800,000 children the tools they need to address the three leading causes of preventable death: malaria, measles and diarrhoea.
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7 Jan 2009
Churches urged to observe autism sunday
Autism Sunday, the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger's Syndrome falls on Sunday 8th February this year.
Cathedrals, Churches and religious organisations across the world have been urged to pray for over 60 million people with autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
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16 Dec 2008
WWF's dolphin protection scheme working in India
It’s no common knowledge but there are hundreds of dolphins in the Ganges river in India.
Sadly, despite being the world’s first species to enjoy protection—more than 2,000 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Ashoka— its population has steadily shrunk to 2,000 from around 6,000 in the early 1990s.
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16 Dec 2008
Award for dolphin protection
A police officer who investigated the harassment of a dolphin living off the Kent coast has been given a wildlife award by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
The WWF runs programmes which enable people to adopt and sponsor dolphins, as well as working in other ways for dolphin protection.
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16 Dec 2008
Stop elephant smuggling by adopting or sponsoring an elephant
A border guard in Myanmar takes bribes to smuggle elephants into Thailand so he can travel to World Cup soccer matches, according to an undercover investigation by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The report found that so many live elephants have been smuggled to support "elephant trekking" tourism in Thailand that some parts of the Myanmar appear to have lost their elephant populations, making it more important than ever that people adopt or sponsor elephants to protect their future.
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12 Dec 2008
Give a school place - or a whole classroom
Giving a virtual gift such as a goat, a camel or a chicken on someone else's behalf has proved a real hit for those who want to give a meaningful gift. Now you can give a school place, or even a whole classroom, through the Save the Children Wish List.
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11 Dec 2008
Give a camel - Oxfam charity gifts
They spit, they bite, and they’re bad tempered - but camels don’t deserve their bad reputation! In harsh conditions there’s no better means of transport, plus they provide nutritious milk and even dung for fuel and fertiliser. Just visit the Oxfam Unwrapped website for more details.
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10 Dec 2008
Buy some rainforest and save the rainforest as a gift
One charity gift that is proving a huge hit is to give or buy someone an acre of rainforest. Green gifts are getting more and more popular, and saving an acre of rainforest is a creative and worthwhile present that will benefit the planet as well as the person you give it to. You can buy, and so save, an acre of rainforest quickly and easily online through the World Land Trust.
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10 Dec 2008
Advertise your green, organic and eco products for free - free advertising online
Ooffoo, launched this November by Natural Collection, is an online eco community offering a completely free online selling, advertising, monitoring, blogging and swapping service.
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