Proposal to declare mass destruction of ecosystems a crime on a par with genocide launched by lawyer.
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/09/ecocide-crime-genocide-un-environmental-damage.
See also the list of ‘top ten ecocides’, which includes the Alberta tarsands and Vedanta’s operations in Orissa, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/may/04/top-10-ecocides.