Norway is now the world’s leading whaling nation, killing more whales in the past two years than Japan and Iceland combined. A new report released today calls on the international community to respond to Norway’s systematic efforts to weaken management rules and improve market conditions for its whalers. Frozen in Time: How Modern Norway Clings […]
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Petition: Protect Elephants in India From Being Struck by Trains
Elephants are large, beautiful, majestic creatures that almost every child will love from the minute they see a stuffed elephant, an illustration of one in a storybook, or maybe even one in person. But as we get older we realize that elephants suffer so much at the hands of humans. African elephants are threatened by […]
Results of the Best Photo of the Month October 2019
We are delighted to announce the results of our latest photo competition. Noushka wins First Prize for her outstanding image ‘It’s My Fish Says the E. Kingfisher’. Paamul Jack wins Second with ‘Mama, a Strange Creature is Looking at Us’. Third Prize is shared between Paamul Jack and Myer Bornstein for their images ‘Locust in Flight’ […]
Florida iguanas hunted and killed for tacos and burritos: report
Iguanas living in South Florida have something new to watch out for – a California-based exotic meats operation is setting up shop to take advantage of the invasive population. According toPalm Beach Post, California resident Anshu Pathak has been making a living selling iguana meat from his exotic meats operation. Iguanas gather on the seawall […]
Why is Europe rewilding with water buffalo?
At the end of a long day, Michel Jacobi, 36, rides a water buffalo home. The choice of commute is unique even in rural, Trans-Carpathian Ukraine — though it wasn’t always. Jacobi, a native of Kiel, Germany, with a degree in ecology and forestry, has spent nearly a decade in Ukraine, raising a sizable herd […]
Four lions, dubbed the ‘Pride of Tshwane’, found hacked to death in reserve
Four lions with their paws and jaws removed were found dead at the Rietvlei Nature Reserve outside Pretoria on Friday morning, the city of Tshwane’s agriculture MMC Dana Wannenburg said. “Today is a sad day for Tshwane as we report that four lions were killed in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve last night,” Wannenburg said on […]
Petition: Find Wildlife Traffickers Who Tossed Exotic Animals Into the Sea to Their Death
Recently, a study found that one-fifth of vertebrates on land are bought and sold in the wildlife trade. The wildlife trade, both legal and illegal, is a cruel, global multi billion dollar business in which animals are captured, killed, and sold for their meat, skin, and bones. Animals like pangolins are so highly trafficked, they […]
Urgent action needed to save the lion, king of the jungle in the wild, from slaughter
The king of the jungle could be deposed and vanish from the wild forever unless action is taken to halt its slaughter, a new book warns. The alert comes from wildlife photographers who captured more than 70 images of the majestic beasts in national parks and reserves in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa. Remembering Lions […]