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The Ecologist Film Unit-produced “Killing Fields: the Battle to Feed Europe’s Factory Farms” is the latest EFU film to be broadcast in the US by satellite channel Link TV. The hard-hitting film, which investigates the human rights abuses and environmental devastation linked to increasing soya cultivation in Paraguay, will feature in the forthcoming edition of Earth Focus, which carries ”under-publicised stories on how changes [...]
Extensive media coverage has followed a major investigation which revealed that much of the horsemeat on sale in Belgium, Holland and France originates from Latin America where conditions have been found to be “cruel and barbaric”.
Operating undercover, Ecostorm investigators, working on behalf of a trio of NGOs – Gaia, One Voice and Wakker Dier – gained unique access to [...]
UK-based investment companies are marketing a controversial biofuel crop as “highly ethical and green” despite it being linked to conflicts over land, food security and growing hunger in developing countries, an Ecostorm investigation for The Ecologist magazine and The Independent has revealed.
The brokers have been criticised by environmental and anti-poverty campaigners for selling investments in [...]
The Church of England has sold major holdings in the controversial British-owned mining company Vedanta Resources plc after admitting it has no confidence that the company is respecting the humans rights of local communities in areas of operation.
An Ecostorm investigation for The Ecologist magazine and The Independent newspaper last year revealed that the Church was [...]
A Compassion in World Farming undercover investigation carried out by Ecostorm – together with a report by the European Food Safety Authority – has suggested that many of the 250 million pigs reared each year in the European Union are being farmed in illegal conditions.
A new film, launched in Brussels, presented graphic footage showing farmers’ [...]
Ecostorm, working with Compassion in World Farming, recently carried out investigations across the UK and Holland to reveal where some of the country’s top hotels and restaurants source their veal from – and established that the double Michelin-starred Espelette restaurant at The Connaught hotel was offering controversial Dutch veal while waiters claimed the meat was [...]
EFU film Melting Point – the new frontline in eco-activism has been invited for nomination in the ‘Reel Change’ award strand of the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival taking place in April and May 2010. The strand is seeking films under 15 minutes which address the human impacts of climate change. Melting Point sparked [...]
Working in conjunction with GAIA, Ecostorm has undertaken an ambitious investigation revealing the bloody and brutal conditions of halal abattoirs in Belgium. Operating undercover, Ecostorm investigations found appalling conditions and documented graphic cruelty in over nine slaughterhouses.
The footage gathered includes mass slaughter of sheep, un-stunned killing of baby goats and prolonged deaths of cattle in [...]
Working in conjunction with the Forest Peoples Programme and KIARA in Jakarta, Ecostorm has carried out an investigation in Sumatra that lifts the lid on plans to privatise the entire length of Indonesia’s 80,000km coastline. If the coastal privatization law known as HP-3 is ratified, vast coastal concessions will be granted to industrial prawn farms, [...]
Ecostorm was invited to review the recently launched “Pirate of the sea” film looking at the activities of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as part of the Cinepolitics strand on international satellite channel Press TV. You can watch the review of the film Pirate of the sea at Press.tv
