"Now they can see when three million jobs in Kenya alone were switched off when tourism stopped overnight. In Africa, 30 million people out of the job! This has elevated the discussion we need to have that conservation is a business. We not only do it for lions and elephants: you see it's a business. It contributes more than 8% to the GDP of many of the countries where we work," he says. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 endangers Africa’s rural economies as conservation efforts come under strain
Conservatives
Top Senate Republican urges older conservative judges to retire
Donald Trump made transforming the federal judiciary a key campaign promise in 2016, aiming to appoint more judges than any other president. He has made considerable progress, clinching the confirmations of two supreme court justices and seing a broad transformation of the justice system to conservatism. … [Read more...] about Top Senate Republican urges older conservative judges to retire
Tory plan on academies faces cross-party opposition
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said ministers were out of touch with the country. “What’s becoming very clear is that the government is no longer concerned with school improvement, but with an ideological reorganisation of schools. That is a dangerous position to find themselves in.” … [Read more...] about Tory plan on academies faces cross-party opposition
‘They’ve gone bonkers’: Tory councillors angry with academy plans
Tilley, who has been a Tory councillor for 18 years, expressed grave concerns about the capacity of the Department for Education and the regional schools commissioners to cope with the additional workload. She also bemoaned government plans to scrap mandatory parent governors “who are great levellers” within a school community. … [Read more...] about ‘They’ve gone bonkers’: Tory councillors angry with academy plans
No 10 seeks to end coronavirus lockdown with ‘immunity passports’
Hancock said work was progressing with the antibody tests but that the results of many of the early tests had been “poor” and he was more hopeful about later ones that have been acquired. The government has bought options on up to 17.5m antibody tests of different types that are currently being tested, but cannot say definitively when they will be safe to use. … [Read more...] about No 10 seeks to end coronavirus lockdown with ‘immunity passports’
