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In her new weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.

In her new weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.

If local people had the choice between eating a bowl of turtle stew, or having access to a new hospital, school or lower tax it’s hard to imagine they’d pick turtle stew, says Rachel Alcock

The tropical tourist destination is at the centre of a dispute over the farming of green sea turtles after animal welfare campaigners launched a campaign to shut the world's only facility rearing the animals for human consumption

What do cockroaches, used-car salesmen and root canals have in common? They’re <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/08/congress-now-less-popular-than-head-lice-cockroaches-and-the-donald/" target="_blank">all more popular</a> than the 112th U.S. Congress, which ended its two-year term last week with its reputation at an all-time low.

Anna Taylor reports on the highly lucrative illegal trade in Python skin which now threatens to overtake the tightly-controlled legal trade and warns if this happens, it will be catastrophic for the populations of these beautiful reptiles.

We environmentalists cannot – and should not – try to disguise from ourselves, or from anyone else, the desperate straits we’re in, writes Mark Cocker.

Don’t look at a society and think it is so big, so complex, that nothing can change. Don’t think: “I am one single person, what can I do?” That, says Satish Kumar, is despondency; that is pessimism. Instead, whatever you can do, do it. Step by step.

Hazel Sillver suggests 10 ways to make your household more eco-sound in 2013.....

Recover from Christmas with nourishing, detoxifying foods, rather than a militant diet of lettuce leaves, says Hazel Sillver

After 40,000 Facebook posts on General Mills Facebook page demanding GM-free Cheerios, the company announces - 'original' Cheerios contain no GM ingredients.

Amnesty International report calls for urgent action to tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. This follows two Ecologist investigations into 'slave labour' connected to the Italian tomato and orange harvests. Andrew Wasley reports

Seeing things differently is a good starting point for a shared ecological wellbeing, says Elaine Gilligan.

Emissions are rising, ice is melting and yet the response of governments is simply to pretend that none of it is happening....

The Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014 begins on Monday. Graham Harvey and Colin Tudge set out its mission: farming systems producing healthy, affordable food in harmony with environment and wildlife.