Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Sightings on French coast raise hopes it could be female flamingo that escaped from wildlife sanctuary near Hayle Regarde, un flamant rose! The zookeepers of Paradise Park in Hayle, Cornwall may never have expected to learn the French word for flamingo but the unlikely journey of Frankie the escapee has made this a linguistic necessity. The four-month-old female flamingo took flight on 2 November, despite having her feathers clipped, from the walled garden of the Cornish zoo. Continue reading...

In 1995, as one of the Ogoni Nine, he was hanged after protesting against Shell’s oil pollution. With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy Earlier this year, my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and his eight colleagues, known collectively as the Ogoni Nine, were pardoned for a crime they never committed. After peacefully campaigning against environmental degradation of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the oil industry, they were imprisoned by the military dictatorship on false charges of treason and incitement to murder, following a trial condemned by the international community as a sham. On 10 November 1995, the men were executed by hanging. Continue reading...

Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals UK politics live – latest updates Southern Water has taken responsibility for the catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads that polluted the Sussex coastline. Local charities reported a huge spill of millions of biobeads over the weekend, washing up on beaches including Camber Sands. Andy Dinsdale, the founder of the plastic pollution campaign group Strandliners, said it was the worst pollution event he had seen. Continue reading...

Two decades ago, the city’s council chose to prioritise playgrounds and youth clubs to help its poorer families – and the benefits are plain to see • Read more: Last youth centre in one of England’s most deprived coastal areas faces closure Three schoolboys in black sweatshirts dart from a wooden fort across a sandpit, weaving and jostling past prams, scooters and bystanders, after a pink football. A pony-tailed girl launches herself on to a moving roundabout, while a young man wrestles a half-naked toddler into a pair of training pants before she scampers off back to the sandpit in the autumn sunshine. This is Buckland adventure playground in Portsmouth, surrounded by trees and a mix of two-storey flats, terrace houses and tower blocks, mostly social housing built to replace the city’s demolished slums. Buckland adventure playground has now had three generations of children enjoying its facilities Continue reading...