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A ‘Powerful Vision’ on Whales and Oceans 

How a ‘Powerful Vision’ on Whales and Oceans Could Change Worldviews Māori scientist Daniel Hikuroa reflects on an Indigenous-led declaration recognizing whales as legal persons, challenging the...

Shared Ground — A BED Learning Session

Blue Earth Defense (BED) is officially launching Shared Ground: “Grounded voices. Collective learning. Shared futures.” A BED Learning Session in 2026 — a regular learning space rooted in grassroots...

The 9 Rules of Security Culture

By Max Wilbert / Biocentric Last week, I wrote about the different ways that governments and corporations use covert and overt forms of repression against revolutionaries, activists, and community...

The Official Launch of Blue Earth Defense (BED) 

Blue Earth Defense is a network of grassroots advocates, communities, and movements committed to defending life on Earth from the threats of extractivism, greenwashing, and systemic inequality.BED...

There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds

An estimated 650,000 of them have flooded the centre of Manila to protest, amid fury over a spiralling corruption scandal in which billions of dollars in flood mitigation funds have evaporated...

Philippine Tribes Revive Reforestation to Defy Coal Mining Expansion

By Bong S. Sarmiento / Mongabay SOUTH COTABATO, Philippines — It’s been three years since production began at a coal mine in the mountain village of Ned, some 1,500 kilometers, nearly 1,000 miles...

Community Efforts Yield New Marine Protected Area In the Philippines

By Kristine Sabillo / Mongabay The Philippines has officially designated a new marine protected area after an 18-year campaign by local communities, fisher associations, civil society...

Palestine Denounces Gaza Devastation as “Ecocide”

The Permanent Mission of the State of Palestine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands has formally described the environmental destruction in Gaza as ecocide, citing that less than 5% of agricultural land...