Sept 21th 2026   Hunting: the Campo Largo regions open the hunting season — now a moratorium is needed to demonstrate a change of course, in line with the battles in Parliament. Letter to Schlein...

Sept 15th 2026   Wolf spared: the Administrative Court of Bolzano grants a suspension based on the principle of irreparable harm, following the appeal filed by LEAL and the National Federation Pro ...

Rome, Sept 13th 2026   An appeal by LEAL and the National Pro Natura Federation was filed yesterday at the Bolzano Regional Administrative Court to suspend the unlawful culling of the third wolf. T...

04/09/2026 WILDLIFE AND BIODIVERSITY, HISTORIC APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 9 OF THE CONSTITUTION TO THE CGARS: PRE-SEASON HUNTING OF WILD TURTLE DOVES IN SICILY BLOCKED   The Council of Administrative J...

29/08/2026 TUSCANY AND HUNTING: ASSOCIATIONS TAKE THE GIANI ADMINISTRATION TO THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT WILD LIFE IS A PUBLIC GOOD TO BE PROTECTED, NOT EXPLOITED Resolutions on the early opening...

30 July 2026 The associations call for hunting to be replaced with birdwatching and ecotourism—sources of income, social progress, and natural beauty. It is time to put an end to the unnecessary suffe...

29/07/2026 The Iberian Wolf: Protected in Portugal, Huntable in Spain — Now One Law and One Future Following a joint webinar on 24 July 2026, Green Impact ETS, Rewilding Portugal and Fondo para la P...

Il 19 giugno 2026, la Sala del Carroccio di Palazzo Senatorio a Roma ha ospitato Selvatica, un convegno dedicato al rapporto tra società umana e fauna selvatica. Nel corso del pomeriggio si è discusso...

49 NGOs sent a Letter to the European Commission asking to defer Sweden to the European Court of Justice for authorised illegal killing of wolves. No time to wait – the Swedish formal reporting la...

Microplastics in blood, brain and placenta: new report warns of urgent gaps in EU law ahead of EU Ministers’ meeting Civil society groups call on the EU to close critical regulatory gaps and prote...

Green Impact among the signatories of a  broad coalition of European environmental organisations, scientific experts, wildlife professionals and conservation advocates has formally called on the Euro...

A wolf protected in Portugal can be killed across the border in Spain — the two countries must manage one shared population together. The Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) — a genetically unique s...

More than 50 civil society organisations are calling on the European Commission to fundamentally rethink incentives for burning woody biomass. In a letter addressed to President Ursula von der Leyen, th...

March 2026 – WolfWatch Europe Newsletter No. 2 The second issue of the Green Impact Newsletter is now online 🌱Discover updates, projects, and initiatives dedicated to sustainability and environment...

1 April 2026 – Green Impact, together with four other organisations — Federazione Pro Natura Italia, Animal Aid Italia, Attivisti Gruppo Randagio, and Alleanza Antispecista — issued a statement de...

🐺 LUPO E GESTIONE DELLA FAUNA SELVATICA: L’IMPORTANZA DEI DATI 🐺 Vi invitiamo a partecipare a un’importante conferenza, promossa su iniziativa della Senatrice Gisella Naturale, per dis...

Today Green Impact, together with more than 40 associations across Europe, published a press release regarding wolves, demonstrating that no killing can legally take place in EU Member States and that, ...

Oct 30 2025 – Read the article....

17 December 2025 – Ministers of the Environment: the decision is in your hands. One year ago, Europe relinquished wolves’ right to live. A purely political move—made without regard for science, co...

7 January 2026 – While a coalition of European associations has recently filed an appeal with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to challenge the reduction of wolf protection at Europea...

27 Novembre 2025 – Negli ultimi anni la presenza del lupo in Italia è tornata al centro del dibattito pubblico, spesso caratterizzato da toni accesi e posizioni discordanti, tra allarmismi, richi...

29 ottobre 2025 – “La riforma della caccia proposta attraverso la legge di Bilancio. Iniziativa clamorosa e gravissima. Presidente, la fermi!” È l’appello che 55 associazioni hanno trasmess...

Le associazioni LNDC Animal Protection e Green Impact, insieme a Earth ODV, One Voice (Francia) e Great Lakes (Ungheria), hanno presentato un ricorso alla Corte di Giustizia dell’Unione Europea pe...

Brussels, 14 October 2025 – The legal appeal Green Impact and other defendants brought against the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission for down-listi...

5 settembre 2025 – Pro Natura e Green Impact si appellano ai Giudici del TAR di Bolzano affinché si rivolgano alla Corte Europea di Giustizia per ottenere un parere interpretativo sulla conformit...

Green Impact con oltre 100 organizzazioni non governative europee ha inviato una lettera aperta ai Governi e Parlamenti dei 27 Stati dell’Unione Europea invitandoli ad agire con cautela e ad aste...

12 agosto 2025 – Contro l’evidenza scientifica e il diritto europeo, la Provincia autonoma di Bolzano autorizza e manda ad effetto l’uccisione di un lupo “a caso”, appartenente a una sotto...

21 giugno 2025 – 46 sigle ambientaliste, animaliste, scientifiche e del comparto economico sostenibile commentano il DDL Caccia presentato il 20 giugno Leggi il comunicato stampa....

Previsto per il 5 giugno p.v. il declassamento del lupo al Consiglio Europeo. Mentre il Medio-Evo in chiave elettoralistica torna in politica a Bruxelles, diversi Stati Membri dell’UE annunciano il ma...

8 maggio 2025 – Oggi è stato approvato il declassamento del lupo (Canis lupus) dall’Allegato IV all’Allegato V della Direttiva Habitat. Una decisione gravissima che LNDC Animal Protection e G...

Roma – 22 aprile 2025 – Green Impact invia una lettera al Ministro dell’Ambiente Gilberto Pichetto Fratin per chiedere quali misure siano previste per l’attuazione, entro la scadenza di ...

Roma, 21 marzo 2025 – Green Impact, insieme a ClientEarth e FERN, ha pubblicato “Un uso più saggio del legno”, una guida tecnica su come l’Italia dovrebbe trasporre e attuare la Direttiva UE 20...

Brussels, 21 November 2024 – Environmental Association Green Impact, together with Great Lakes and Wetlands and others, denounced the lack of science-backing and breach of democratic process stemming ...

The EU proposal to delist the wolf (Canis lupus) from Appendix II to Appendix III of the Bern Convention: unfit for purpose and lacking minimum scientific quality standards and therefore inadmissible. R...

Abbassare lo status di protezione del lupo, come propone la Commissione europea, sarebbe una decisione fondata non su solide basi scientifiche, ma su motivazioni squisitamente politico-elettorali. La pr...

ITALIA DICA SI’ A NATURE RESTORATION LAW, L’APPELLO DI GREEN IMPACT A GIORGIA MELONI. Roma, 22 Marzo – Lunedì prossimo è prevista l’adozione della Nature Restoration Law, la normativa europea ...

Outlook on the future EU Nature Restoration Law and linkages with Climate and Species Conservation An opportunity to bring back Nature. With the participation of: Rewilding Foundation, FERN, Wild Europe...

La richiesta di abbattimento di due lupi “a casaccio” in Lessinia, avanzata dalla Provincia autonoma di Trento, non è solo “contraria alla regolamentazione attuale dell’UE (Direttiva Habita...

Green Impact e Fondazione CAVE CANEM in collaborazione con il Canile Rifugio Valle Grande avvieranno un progetto di riforestazione del canile. Lo scopo è favorire lo stoccaggio della CO2 in un’ar...

Cambiamo musica per i cani a catena in Liguria! Chiediamo al Presidente della Regione Toti di emettere, entro la fine di #Sanremo, un’ordinanza straordinaria per emergenza freddo e liberare i cani...

NEWS EMERGENZA FREDDO 18 GENNAIO 2023 Abbiamo scritto ai presidenti di Piemonte, Valle d’Aosta, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria e Provincia Autonaoma di Bolzano chiedendo l’adozione di un’ordin...

Dona a Bianca   Green Impact è attivamente impegnata a lavorare alla modifica della normativa per introdurre il divieto di detenzione dei cani a catena in tutte le regioni italiane. A seguito dell...

COMUNICATO STAMPA Animali: nella provincia di Trento introdotto il divieto di detenzione di cani a catena Sale a dieci il conto di regioni e province aderenti alla campagna #liberidallecatene promossa d...

COMUNICATO STAMPA Appello di Green Impact agli Eurodeputati che a breve voteranno in plenaria la revisione della Direttiva Europea sulle Energie Rinnovabili Energia: basta sussidi alle ‘false’ rinno...

LA DENUNCIA DI GREEN IMPACT Ancora troppe città italiane con carrozze trainate da cavalli. Stop a questa pratica crudele, adottare l’eco-carrozza. Le carrozze elettriche, dalle forme tradizionali, si...

La guerra in Ucraina sta sconvolgendo drammaticamente la vita di milioni di persone, ma tra le vittime ci sono anche migliaia di cani e gatti  e altri animali. Molti animali sono stati portati via dall...

Mongabay – A team of Mexican scientists are developing a successful experiment that allows for the recovery and maintenance of endemic trees in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve that provide...

Financial Times – In British Columbia, a hub of biomass production, activists want stricter controls to protect ancient trees. 2 January 2022 Link: https://www.ft.com/content/e308e8d0-4cfc-4720-99...

Mongabay -Combating illegal logging in Myanmar’s Rakhine state helps preserve wildlife populations, but is insufficient without addressing unsustainable local hunting pressures, according to new resea...

Lettera inviata il 21 Novembre 2021 Gentile Primo Ministro Mario Draghi, I Mufloni hanno il passaporto europeo ad eccezione del Parco dell’Arcipelago Toscano. Ci appelliamo a Lei perché fermi la matt...

EURACTIV – The pushback from EU countries against the European Commission’s new forest strategy, which seeks to protect biodiversity and enhance the role of trees in capturing CO2, has been “h...

Quanti anni può vivere una quercia? Fino ad oggi, la datazione scientifica era arrivata vicina al mezzo millennio. Un record che, adesso, è stato letteralmente surclassato. Perché Demetra, una querci...

Mongabay – Indonesia has banned again the use of destructive seine and trawl nets, locally known as cantrang, to protect the ocean ecosystem. Link a Mongabay: https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/ind...

The Guardian – More than 200 health journals worldwide are publishing an editorial calling on leaders to take emergency action on climate change and to protect health. The British Medical Journal ...

Mongabay – the new Tropical Forest Vulnerability Index (TFVI) will use satellite data to assess the impact of growing threats such as land clearance and rising temperatures on forests, in order to...

The Guardian – A new study has found that many of the key indicators of the global climate crisis are getting worse and either approaching, or exceeding, key tipping points as the earth heats up. ...

National Geographic – In a rare court hearing for a research animal dealer, the USDA alleges years of lapses in care. Link: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/major-chinchilla-supp...

Business Insider – Nestlé  has been working on alternative meat products that would combine cultured meat with plant-based ingredients. Data: 27/07/21 Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/innov...

euronews – The Saimaa Ringed Seal can only be spotted in Finland’s Lake Saimaa, near Russia. It is one of the world’s most endangered and rarest seal species. Due to human activities and clima...

Euronews – EU imports and exports account for 22 per cent of the global trade in shark meat, according to new research from WWF. Spain was found to be the world’s top exporter sending shark meat...

Mongabay –  An expedition to the forests of Sierra Leone, West Africa, revealed two species of crabs new to science and two species not seen in more than half a century: an Afzelius’s crab, whi...

Indipendent – Dr Johan Marais spends his days reconstructing the faces of several rhinos that have been left barely alive in fields across South Africa due to savage attacks from poachers.  ...

Traffic – The pandemic has demonstrated once more that now is the time to truly value and invest in nature by developing integrated socio-economic stimulus packages. The pandemic was not just a ca...

Channel4news – demand from power stations, such as Drax in Yorkshire, is driving the loss of old forests which many argue should be protected.  ...

Mongabay – New technology can tell if an animal sold in the legal wildlife trade was bred in captivity or captured illegally from the wild.  ...

BBC – A new study led by the University of Exeter and the Center for Whale Research suggests killer whales may socialise with each other based on age and gender, with younger whales and females m...

The Globe and Mail – As an ecologist in British Columbia I discovered that trees are connected through below-ground fungal networks and that they communicate with each other and form complex socie...

The Reveletor – A serious lack of data about the fate of wildlife saved from illegal trade leads to calls for better information and accountability....

National Geographic – Millions of live animals enter the U.S. each year without disease screening—leaving us vulnerable to another outbreak, a former wildlife inspector says.  ...

Mirror – Robotic dolphins which weigh 250kg and behave just like their real-life counterparts could be used to put an end to welfare concerns surround the multi-billion-pound captivity industry. &...

Smithsonian Magazine – An American biologist wields an innovative weapon against the illegal trade in African ivory...

Post Magazine – Drought-busting rain, a crackdown on the illegal trade in ivory and education in Asia to stem demand for it has seen new life blossom on the African savannah. A record-breaking 248...

VN Express International – Police in Hanoi in collaboration with an environmental NGO have busted a pangolin scale trafficking ring in northern Vietnam.    ...

Good News Network – Off the coast of New Zealand, a group of marine biologists has discovered a mother bottlenose dolphin that had adopted a baby pilot whale....

Euronews – An algorithm designed by a research group from the Universities of Bath, Oxford and Twente may be able to help save African elephants from extinction. Coupled with high-resolution image...

A new report has found that medicines containing pangolin scales are still being produced and sold throughout China, despite a recent ban on pangolin scales from the official list of approved ingredien...

https://www.lifegate.com/south-africa-meat-safety-act Lifegate, 11 September 2020...

Nine tonnes of elephant ivory were destroyed this week in Singapore. It was the largest ivory crushing event in recent years and the nation was willing to forgo S$18 million (€11 million) worth of the...

 Ilcommercio di avorio continua a prosperare nell’UE. Durante i primi 6 mesi di quest’anno, l’autorità italiana CITES (Carabinieri Forestali) ha condotto l’operazione ̶...

Curtailing of shipping due to coronavirus allows scientists to study effects of quieter oceans on marine wildlife In cities, human lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic have offered some respite to ...

Europe’s environmental footprints exceed several safe limits. Global sustainability challenges increasingly raise concerns about the stability of the Earth system that supports all life on our planet....

La Cina riapre subito i Wet market: una minaccia per la salute mondiale Dietro al commercio di animali selvatici diffuso in Cina un giro d’affari plurimiliardario. Ma anche un grave pericolo sanit...

“By creating distressed and sick animals, we are harming ourselves,” claims Dr Aysha Akhtar, a neurologist and public health specialist and a Commander in the US Public Health Service. “Three-four...

The Wildlife Justice Commission’s Intelligence Development Unit has analysed reported seizure data between 2016-2019 and combined it with the WJC’s own investigative findings to offer a very detaile...