America’s largest national forest, Tongass National Forest in Alaska, will be opened up to logging and road construction after the Trump administration finalizes its plans to open up the forest on Friday, according to The New York Times. The plans to open up the forest to logging have been in the works for years. In […]
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Film showing mink ‘cannibalism’ prompts probable ban on fur farms in Poland
Poland’s fur farms could be in their final year in operation if a bill banning production of fur clears legal hurdles next month. And France looks set to follow suit. The Polish bill, dubbed “five for animals” (because it has five main objectives, including the ban) was tabled in early September, much to the dismay […]
Spots of hope: Some good news for South Africa’s cheetahs
DURBAN, South Africa — South Africa is home to around 1,300 of the world’s roughly 7,100 remaining cheetahs. It’s also the only country in the world with significant cheetah population growth, thanks largely to a nongovernmental conservation project that depends on careful and intensive human management of small, fenced-in cheetah populations. Because most of the […]
Wildcats threatened by their domestic cousins
European wildcats, thought to be extinct 50 or so years ago in the Jura mountains, have since recolonised part of their former territory. This resurgence in an area occupied by domestic cats has gone hand-in-hand with genetic crosses between the two species. The hybridisation between wild and domesticated organisms is known to endanger the gene […]
Petition: Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland
Fox hunting is an incredibly cruel sport in which foxes are chased by people on horseback and a pack of dogs for “fun.” Once caught, the dogs rip these poor foxes to shreds. Despite fox hunting being illegal in England, it still happens quite often due to weak enforcement of the law. A few months […]
Grouse moors under fire after golden eagle tag found in Scottish river
The satellite tag from a golden eagle which vanished in suspicious circumstances on a Scottish grouse moor four years ago has been found in a river, wrapped in lead sheeting. The tag was recovered earlier this year from the River Braan in Perthshire in what wildlife crime investigators believe is a breakthrough in their attempts […]
Petition: 10 Lions Bred for Hunting Rescued From Captivity
New images show the moment 10 lions were rescued after being held in captivity on a farm where they were bred to be shot in South Africa. Canned hunting, one of the most egregious forms of trophy-hunting, is the killing of captive-bred wild animals in small enclosures. In South Africa, canned hunting has become […]
For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’
Fernando Tortato usually spends his time scanning camera trap footage to monitor jaguars in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, a region that sprawls across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. But for the past 45 days, he’s taken on a new role as a firefighter, sometimes working grueling 24-hour shifts to help extinguish the flames […]