He has invoked extremist, Cold War rhetoric to demonise conservationists and environmentalists.
Environmentalists are demanding that the EU close a research fund which they claim offers coal companies tens of millions of pounds of public money in grants.
Environmentalists are concerned that ships navigating reef passageways – many of which are narrower than the English Channel – will run aground, as a Chinese vessel did in 2010, tearing a two-mile gash into the coral and spilling several tonnes of oil.
Then there are also many people who I think believe, or have persuaded themselves, that climate change is just another fad, exaggerated by scientists who just want more money for their research, or environmentalists who over-react to small threats or are unrealistic about where their bread is buttered.
Environmentalists are concerned about the carbon footprint created by transporting an estimated 370 lorry loads of sand, and a local gay rights group insisted that gay and women's rights in the Gulf states should be highlighted at the event.
Narcissistic celebrities showing off toned bodies, people having all the fun without donating, complaints about the waste of water – the attacks have come from commentators, Catholics, animal rights groups and environmentalists.
One campaigner wore a secret camera to capture police attempting to persuade him to spy on Cambridge University students, environmentalists, campaigners against government cuts and anti-racist activists.
The Tasmanian listing was announced under the previous Labor government as part of a peace deal to solve the state's long-running battle between loggers and environmentalists.
Even the claims of hunters as environmentalists, as noted above, are treated with heavy doses of scepticism.
Separately, the Scottish company Cairn Energy has licences for oil exploration in the Gulf of Valencia, off the coast of Ibiza, where local politicians, business figures and environmentalists have united to oppose the plans.
Locals had proposed introducing fish in the past, but every time wildlife managers and environmentalists had struck it down, according to Doherty-Bone.
