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“It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference.
My little thing is planting trees.”
(Wangari Maathai – Nobel Peace Prize 2004)

SICILY – HUNTING: BIRDS TEMPORARILY SAFE AS SICILY’S ADMINISTRATIVE COURT OVERTURNS THE REGION’S DECISION

By an order issued on 27 July 2026, following an appeal filed by the Federazione Nazionale Pro Natura and LEAL, with the support of CABS and Green Impact, the Sicily Regional Administrative Court (TAR Sicilia) suspended the hunting calendar adopted by the Sicily Regional Government. The Court upheld all the key arguments raised by the environmental organisations, which were represented by lawyers D’Agostino, Giovinazzo, and Loprete.

Green Impact & Plastic Soup: “Microplastics in blood, brain and placenta: new report warns of urgent gaps in EU law ahead of EU Ministers’ meeting”

Brussels, 22 July 2026 — A new report, based on peer reviewed evidence and published by Plastic Soup Foundation, in collaboration with Green Impact, found current EU legislation fails to prevent microplastics’ spread in human blood, breast milk, lungs, brain tissue, placenta, and children’s urine, and warns that microplastics and nanoplastics constitute an escalating public health crisis.

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