On a July day several years ago, I sat on the spine of a hill in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range on Alaska’s North Slope and watched 15,000 caribou stream around me, some just a few yards away. I could hear their clicking feet, their untroubled breathing, and their rough coughs so closely […]
Author: Supertrooper
Founder and Executive Editor
2020 ballot initiative would restore wolves to Colorado
Earlier this month, more than 200,000 signatures were delivered to the Colorado secretary of state calling for the restoration of gray wolves (Canis lupus) to be put on the 2020 statewide ballot. Collected by volunteers from the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund, Initiative 107 would instruct Colorado Parks and Wildlife to take public input and […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Month December 2019
We are delighted to announce the results of our latest photo competition. Diane Stuckey wins First Prize for her outstanding image ‘Elephants in Love’. Paul Wild wins Second Prize with ‘He’s My Bruvver’. Third Prize goes to Michalis Kotzakis for his image ‘Kingfisher Reflection’. Please give kudos to the photographers by leaving a comment and […]
Boaters in Florida broke the all-time record for killing manatees this year
2019 was a bad year for manatees in Florida, to say the least. According topreliminary datafrom the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, boat strikes have killed 129 manatees through December 13 of this year, which is a new record. Despite having a couple more weeks to go in the year, Florida has already passed […]
Japan commercial whaling law gets passed
Japan has passed a law to financially support commercial whaling and promote the consumption of whale meat, a controversial practice that the country resumed in July after a 32-year moratorium. The revised law won the support of the Diet (Japanese parliament) on Thursday, although there has not been an official announcement by the government, public […]
NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon
KRIBI, Cameroon — Alarm flashed through Cameroon’s conservation community in mid-September, when images of untidy rows of black polythene bags in a freshly bulldozed gash in the rainforest made the rounds of social media. It was soon confirmed that the pictures came from a forest concession adjacent to Campo Ma’an National Park, in the south […]
Scales from around 50,000 pangolins seized by Chinese customs
Chinese customs officials have seized over 23 metric tons (23,000 kilograms or 50,000 pounds) of pangolin scales after a year-long investigation, local Chinese media reported last week. The massive amount of scales, the officials say, would have been extracted from around 50,000 pangolins, and represent the largest seizure of wildlife products in the country this […]
SeaWorld Wouldn’t Help Tilikum—Urge It to Help His Son Kyuquot
On December 24, 1991, a male orca named Kyuquot was born at the rundown Sealand of the Pacific aquarium in British Columbia, Canada. Decades later, he remains captive—his prison now is SeaWorld San Antonio. The Early Years Kyuquot was born to mother Haida II and father Tilikum, whose own tragic life was revealed to millions […]