Some comments have suggested that we would be better of without the EPA and other environmental watchdogs.

According to China's environmental watchdog, Sepa, China is losing a million acres (4,000 km2) per year to desertification.

Finally, China's leaders are going to have to allow more press freedom and public participation, because the best environmental watchdogs are local newspapers and farmers.

The discovery, announced in a public meeting at the lab on Feb. 14, raised concern among lab officials and environmental watchdogs.

The environmental watchdog has warned the factory but it had not effectively controlled the pollution, Chen added.

Controversial planning reforms risk harming the countryside, the Government's own environmental watchdogs have warned.

China's top environmental watchdog warned Sinopec in 2007 to stop operations at one of its oil fields due to chronic river pollution.

Singapore has many environmental watchdogs (known as Peckhams) and committees that look after the environment within Singapore.

Russia's environmental watchdog originally claimed that the coloured snowfall was caused by industrial pollution.

The environmental watchdog added that if the plan was not in place it was designate the area contaminated land by the end of March next year.