Stories

The Ecologist Film Unit (EFU) has, to date, produced more than 25 films and numerous print investigations highlighting unreported global issues.

As well as being published by The Ecologist magazine (now Resurgence and Ecologist) and broadcast by our US media partner Link TV, many of our stories have been featured in newspapers, magazines, online publications and TV channels including The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Channel 4 News and ITV News.

See below for links to some of our reporting.

2014 

• Poultry industry’s dirty secret – undercover investigation into hygiene failings in UK poultry plants
• Beneath the streets of Bucharest – Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers
• Fear, football and torture – undercover in Transnistria
• Fracking hell? – peasants revolt over Romanian fracking plans
• India’s coal inferno – losing out in the country’s coal rush

2013

• GM food controversy – glyphosate found in UK cereal bars
• GM food controversy – the real cost of glyphosate in animal feed?
• Dolphin slaughter – thousands killed for use as shark bait
• Revealed – US oil giant Halliburton lined up as UK fracking partner
• Fracking hell? – how gas drilling threatens UK livestock and food safety
• Gold rush – how Greek jobs, forests and future are under threat
• Liquid ivory – how palm oil is killing rare elephants
• The dissident farmers – speaking out against the controversial UK badger cull
• Shades of the gray – America’s wolf wars
• Fracking hell? – Poland’s dash for gas
• Fracking hell? – Britain’s gas rush

2012

• Tainted tin – our obsession with smartphones comes with a hidden price tag
  
• Grinding Nemo – the slavery behind our seafood
  
• Elephant smuggling exposed – the illegal trade from Burma to Thailand
  
• Fishy business – how illegal shellfish trade risks health of thousands
• Bitter pill – the prescription drugs most likely to harm or kill us
• Hard labour behind soft drinks –  migrants suffer in Italy’s orange harvest
  

2011

• The carbon con – the true cost of offsetting 
  
• Food speculation – how betting on food commodities fuels Mexico’s tortilla crisis
  
• Tainted tomatoes – squalor and exploitation in the tomato fields
• Bitter harvest – how exploitation stalks workers on UK farms
• Deadly reaction – the popular antibiotics linked to poisonings and deaths

2010

• Fracking hell – the environmental costs of the new US gas drilling boom 
  
• Sour milk – undercover inside the US intensive dairy industry
  
• Dwindling forests, dwindling futures – Bangladeshi communities under threat
• The great jatropha swindle – ‘miracle’ biofuel crop sold as ‘green’

2009

• Selling the sea – reporting Indonesia’s plans to privatise coastline for aquaculture
• The killing fields – human rights abuses in Paraguay’s soya fields
  
• Skin trade – the UK companies trading in Canadian seal pelts
• Sacred mountain – the UK companies bankrolling controversial Indian bauxite mine
• Sick as a pig – the menace of MRSA linked to industrial pig farming
  

2008

• The greed of feed – the hidden cost of your cheap farmed salmon 
  
• Giri Raja – reporting on the “wonder-chicken” hailed as a solution to feeding India’s poor
• Melting point – on the frontline of environmental activism
• Hell for leather – investigating the leather industry in Bangladesh