Just before Christmas, Estonia’s Soomaa region will mark four years since the inscription of its tradition of building and using expanded dugout boats in UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. https://t.co/7DHEbSuA5r
A Global Ecocide! A new international investigation reveals that oil and gas licenses overlap with 7,000 protected areas worldwide. Weak enforcement mechanisms, leading to "paper parks," allow activities to continue despite recommendations from IUCN and UNESCO to ban hydrocarbon extraction in protected sites. https://t.co/5jkZntoNmd
ECOCLUB Blogs: "Four years on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List have strengthened Soomaa’s dugout boat culture" by Aivar Ruukel @Ruukel https://t.co/FyS8h8IxZe
Yay! The launch of a new overnight flat-bed sleeper bus service in Europe - between Amsterdam and Zurich, and Zurich and Barcelona. Rhiannon Batten reviews it in The Guardian: https://t.co/uTwl1FClfK