The Local Germany

Intensive farming 'endangers a third of German species'

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:21:35 +0200

There are 32,000 species of animal, plant and mushroom life native to Germany. Due to intensive farming methods, one in every three of these is endangered, a new report shows.

Half a million ants march for rainforest protection

Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:30:06 +0200

Half a million ants were enlisted at a German zoo on Tuesday by ecologists from the conservation group WWF to call for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, ahead of a trip by Chancellor Angela Merkel to Brazil.

Germans waste 18m tonnes of food yearly

Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:05:09 +0200

Germans throw away 18 million tonnes of perfectly good food every year, a report showed on Thursday.

Children's books 'still made from rainforests'

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 12:12:00 +0100

German children's books publishers still use paper made from tropical rainforests on “a shocking scale,” despite promising two years ago they would stop, Der Spiegel magazine said in a report to be published on Monday.

Wolves close in on Berlin

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:00:00 +0100

A pack of wolves has settled near Berlin and has become well established enough to have cubs. Researchers caught them on camera, just 25 kilometres from the capital.

No one's protecting Baltic Sea well, though Germany's better than most

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:17:00 +0200

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says the nine countries with a Baltic Sea coast are not doing enough to protect the very polluted body of water, although Germany is doing better than most.

Germany tops G8 climate action ranking

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:31:00 +0200

Germany is performing ahead of other G8 nations in the fight against climate change according to the World Wildlife Fund’s G8 Climate Scorecard released on Wednesday. But the country barely got a passing grade.