Tag Archives: Climate Change

This week we have Jason covering four important stories. First of all there was a study done about burning fossil fuels. Should we burn all the fossil fuels on the planet we will have a 9% increase in the earth’s temperature. The world would heat up from 15 degrees to ...

In this fabulous episode from the Environmental news network we are looking at more news that actually matters. First of all Jason tells us about malaria and the epidemic within Africa. The issue of malaria is not just an issue in Africa because it does exist in other countries. There ...

In this video we hear from Kristin Gunnasdottir V. Kistowski from Fish-I Africa and she is telling us about how laws regarding fishing didn’t happen the past. There has been illegal fishing for many years and they have been allowed to expand their operations and this is what Fish-I Africa ...

This panel discussion sees Marcus Asner from the natural resource fraud & corruption at Arnold & Porter LLP in the USA and he is speaking to us about fish crime. Initially he tells us that if we automated the export data that was uploaded to a computer it would close ...

This video sees Mr Marcus Asner who continues to talk to us about the extent of fish crime. Mr Marcus Asner was a federal prosecutor and at the symposium of Cape Town in 2015 spoke to us about the Lacey act. The Lacey Act of 1900 in a nutshell is a conservation law in ...

This video from the fish crime series at the symposium in Cape Town and sees a panel discussion again on fish crime. The speaker Bernard Liedemann (the directorate, monitoring & surveillance from DAFF – SA) talk to us about a multi approach on the high seas.   Mr Bernard Liedmann ...

Fish Crime Symposium, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 20 – Bernard Liedemann from DAFF SA – Whistleblowers, Co-operation with US, Maritime Crime, Organised crime It started with civil society. In other words, they dealt with an informant in this case. The ...

Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 19 – Discussion – Global Security and Organised Crime – Inspection of Unseaworthy Vessels leads to uncovering of further crimes such as human trafficking, money laundering. Prosecution of Crimes The good news regarding ...

Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 18 – Small Scale Arrests should be followed up, Regulations and Skills are essential, SA and USA have a strong law enforcement culture but other African countries do not.

Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 15 – Question regarding Transnational Crime on the high seas and Criminal Jurisdiction Ministry of Justice is extremely important because they are the one that is responsible for how to handle transnational organised ...