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
Much of the cheap meat and dairy produce sold in supermarkets across Europe is arriving as a result of serious human rights abuses and environmental damage in one of Latin America’s most impoverished countries, a powerful new investigation produced by the Ecologist Film Unit – the production company jointly owned by Ecostorm and The Ecologist [...]
Secret footage obtained by Ecostorm in Namibia has revealed – for the first time – the brutal reality of the Namibian seal hunt and followed an unprovoked attack on investigators Jim Wickens and Bart Smithers.
The dramatic film shows seals being killed by hunters during a hunt at the Cape Cross Reserve in Namibia and hunters [...]
An investigation by Ecostorm for The Ecologist magazine and The Independent newspaper has revealed how leading banks, insurance providers, car manufacturers and brewery chains – amongst others – have pension funds or similar schemes invested in a company responsible for a controversial mine in Orissa which threatens, according to campaigners, to devastate a vital forest [...]
As part of an exhaustive three year Greenpeace investigation ‘Slaughtering the Amazon’, examining the market links of beef and leather from cattle grazing on illegally deforested lands in the Amazon, Ecostorm helped to expose a vital link between high street trainers and the destruction of this unique forest.
Working undercover, an Ecostorm team infiltrated the tanneries [...]
An investigation by Ecostorm has discovered that London is at the hub of an international trade in controversial Canadian seal skins – the subject of this week’s EU vote to outlaw their sale across Europe.
Thirteen months ago the world watched in horror as the Chinese authorities launched a brutal crackdown on Tibetan dissidents protesting against the occupation of their country. At least 120 were killed when soldiers opened fire on protests in the capital Lhasa and elsewhere. Thousands were injured or arrested. The Olympic Games may have briefly [...]
Virtually everything we buy, whether it’s food or clothing or household appliances or even holidays, comes with an ecological price tag attached. But there are other, unreported, costs attached to many of these same purchases: across the globe a growing number of brave and pioneering activists and journalists face danger and persecution – including violence, [...]
An Ecostorm-produced documentary, commissioned by the Soil Association and Compassion in World Farming, exposes the rise of a new strain of MRSA in pigs, and its link to the overuse of antibiotics on intensive farms.
‘Sick as a pig’ was filmed in the Netherlands, one of the countries most seriously affected by this farm-animal MRSA. [...]
A film produced by Ecostorm on behalf of WSPA and the Handle with Care coalition has won “Best documentary on animal rights-special award” at the STEPS International Rights Film Festival held in Ukraine. The film, ‘Handle with Care – exposing the long distance trade in live farm animals’, was the result of more than 12 [...]
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