Global development professionals network

Good news for elephants: China’s legal ivory trade is ‘dying’ as prices fall

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Elephant conservationists hopeful that demand for ivory in China is falling amid government clampdown on ivory sellers, but experts remain wary of poaching

‘Luxury water’ for £80 a bottle? It’s ignorant, insensitive and irresponsible

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Limited edition water harvested from melting polar icebergs, is now on sale at Harrods. It’s just another ugly indicator of our world’s many inequalities

We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years

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At current rates of deforestation, rainforests will vanish altogether in a century. Stopping climate change will remain an elusive goal unless poor nations are helped to preserve them

Philanthropists can’t eradicate global poverty, but we can make a start

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Philanthropic organisations have the agility, creativity and audacity to be the risk takers of development financing