Radar, a top current affairs program in Holland, this week carried footage from an Ecostorm investigation in Bosnia examining Dutch subsidies for factory farming systems. Filming undercover, our team of investigators were able to document cruelty at the nation’s biggest farm and a brutal agricultural system that could spread across the country. Reaction to the [...]
It is meant to be supporting ’sustainable development’ but the UN’s flagship carbon trading scheme is failing, according to an investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit. On the eve of the Durban climate change talks in December, investigators travelled to Madhya Pradesh in central India to document the impact of a new coal power plant, [...]
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas – a sacred staple in Mexico – and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country’s poor. As part of a major report examining food speculation the Ecologist Film Unit travelled to Mexico to investigate.
The Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) is [...]
Plans by UK companies to extract gas through a controversial process known as hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ could contaminate local water supplies, according to a new report by the Tyndall Centre. The report echoes the findings of a major Ecostorm investigation and film released late last year which raised the alarm about the process – [...]
Ecostorm contributed to two programmes broadcast as part of Channel 4’s major Big Fish Fight series: Hugh’s Fish Fight, which in episode two tackled the controversial issue of salmon feed, a problem first highlighted by our film exposing the social and ecological costs of fishmeal production in Peru, The Greed of Feed, and Dispatches, which [...]
With planning permission for Britain’s biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted later this month, the Ecologist Film Unit travelled to California to examine intensive milk production US-style and found factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business…
‘YOU BETTER get out of here or your gonna get your ass kicked [...]
A groundbreaking year-long investigation into social justice in food and farming, undertaken by a committee of respected and influential figures from across the food sector, has been completed by the UK-based Food Ethics Council. Food Justice, the report of the inquiry, has just been published. Ecostorm assisted the inquiry by producing a number of short videos highlighting the often unreported [...]
Footage released by animal protection groups today (15th June) shows the brutal reality of whaling in Norway, and demonstrates why the international ban on commercial whaling must be enforced – not lifted.
As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) prepares to vote on a controversial proposal to lift the ban on commercial whaling, the World Society for the Protection [...]
A major undercover investigation into the European puppy trade has been broadcast by Dutch TV Channel SBS6 as part of its “Undercover in Nederland” series. The complex 18 month project – which involved investigators infilitrating the puppy breeding industry in a number of countries - was carried out by Ecostorm on behalf of IFAW Netherlands.
You can view the [...]
Our taste for shellfish is leading to exploitation of UK shores by criminal gangs, putting human health and fragile environments at risk, an Ecostorm news piece for The Ecologist reveals.
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