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Measuring the pollution of hot spots in Thailand, spring 2016

Chemical contamination of various origin is still widely present around Thailand. The most problematic pollutants are the unintentionally produced ones or a historical...

IPEN CEE meeting in Prague, October 2017

Between 17th and 19th October we hosted our colleagues from Cental and Eastern Europe. IPEN’s CEE regional meeting took place in Prague. Environmental activists and experts...

Study tour to Kiev region on sustainable agriculture and rural development

As a part of two days trip organised by Ecoaction in collaboration with Arnika on sustainable agriculture, a tour to small farms throughout Kiev Oblast took place. See the full...

Trip to Danosha pig farms in Ivano-Frankivsk region

Industrial farming brings many environmental risks. Although our crucial topic in the case of Ukrainian agriculture is poultry, we focused also on problems caused by pig farms -...

Protest in front of EBRD´s office in Kiev to protect ukrainian communities from agribusinesses

Activists and representatives of local communities have arrived today at the Kyiv office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to complain about the...

Searching for environmental democracy: International conferece in Montenegro

Non-governmental organizations including Arnika participate at the 6th Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention and 3rd MOP of the PRTR Protocol, which takes place in...

We are mapping the problems caused by a poultry magnate in Ukraine

In July, we went with Arnika to Ukraine for the second time this year already. Again, we focused on a theme framed by our local activity – industrial poultry farming. This time...

Green Watch – meeting Belarusian activists

Green Line and Green Watch. These are two new "institutions" created in Belarus by a Minsk based NGO Ecohome in cooperation with Arnika. While operators of the Green Line advise...

Rivers must be wild and natural

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Industrial farms in Ukraine - big pollution and massive traffic

For the first time, we visited Ukraine during the Facts Finding Mission in March 2017. We tried to help the locals with their struggles against the "poultry imperium", which is...

Uranium mine

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Shetpe planting

Planting the trees in Shetpe school yard Photo: Martin Skalsky/Arnika Towns in Mangystau, with its semi-desert nature, suffer from lack of greenery. We organized a tree-planting...