The Exploration Company has released the Wide Ranging World Map, featuring ecological and cultural details never before shown in a world wall map. Its initial market-testing over, the map's wide-release is made to coincide with Earth Day, on April 22nd.

The Intl Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement has an unusually good website with excellent information that is important for anyone managing a regulatory environmental program. It includes two major publications available on online that provide good overviews of these complicated topics. These would serve as good primary references for program managers.

Ghanaian organisations have mobilised in recent months to prevent the privatisation of their country's urban water supply system. They have formed the Coalition Against the Privatisation of Water in Ghana which argues that the privatisation package is a bad deal both technically and financially. It says the reforms are largely imposed by external interests led by the World Bank and the IMF, which have imposed tough conditions.

Thousands of tonnes of fish are being dumped overboard by the large European Union fishing vessels trawling off the West African coast, according to leading environmentalists.

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) have slammed governments gathered at UN Headquarters in New York for failing to respond to the widespread global concern over globalization. FoEI accused the United States, Canada, Australia and the OPEC countries of trying to ruin the historic World Summit on Sustainable Development to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa this August.