A pride of seven lions from the Karoo National Park outside Beaufort West in the Western Cape was put down on Tuesday after two escapes in a 24-hour period. In the first incident, in the early hours of Monday morning, three lions from the pride of seven escaped from the park’s northern boundary along the […]
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Petition: Support the Polar Bear Cub Survival Act
Scientists believe that climate change could cause polar bears to go extinct by the end of the century due to climate change. Sadly, some leaders have made plans to exacerbate the diminishing polar bear population, rather than trying ot save them. Trump’s presidency has been full of rollbacks that severely weaken environmental and wildlife protections. […]
Siberian tiger shot and butchered by ‘monsters for use in Chinese medicine’
Animal rescuers have been devastated to learn a giant tiger they released back in to the wild a year ago has been butchered by poachers. Male big cat Pavlik – an Amur tiger, which is one of the largest and most endangered tiger in the world – had been rescued as a cub and reared […]
Shark fin trafficking ring busted as trade ban comes into effect in Florida
U.S. authorities say they’ve broken up a conspiracy to traffic shark fins in and out of Florida by a company based in California, where their sale and export is banned by law. In an indictment released Sept. 4 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia, prosecutors allege that 12 people took […]
Cattlemen Tell EnviroNews Ranchers Want Mexican Wolves Killed, Despite Being Paid for Livestock Losses
(EnviroNews Arizona) — Parts of eastern Arizona are a conflict zone, as a 100-year war between ranchers, conservation groups, government agencies, and the endangered Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) rages on. The rarest subspecies of gray wolf, also known as “el lobo,” is doing what wolves have always done in their native territories: they […]
Trump Administration to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forest
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 […]
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 […]