A much-debated legend in baseball involves the New York Yankee’s Babe Ruth at the plate facing the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field for game 3 of the 1932 World Series. According to the story, Ruth was enduring quite a bit of trash-talk from the Cubs’ bench, and he returned same: With the count at two […]
Category: Wildlife
Illegal ivory trade blooms during Egypt’s Arab Spring
The illegal trade in elephant ivory is flourishing in Egypt due to a lack of law enforcement, combined with the entrance into the market of a major new consumer — the Chinese buyer, according to a new TRAFFIC investigation. The new report, Illegal ivory sales in Egypt published in the latest issue of the TRAFFIC […]
Snowy Owl “irruption” in North America
Local farmers, amateur birdwatchers and bird researchers have witnessed an unusual and at times disturbing phenomenon recently as huge numbers of snowy owls are migrating south from the Arctic and being seen as far south as Missouri. Such are the increasingly large numbers of this majestic owl species that it is being described as a “mass […]
Illegal Bird Trapping in Cyprus
The air in a parking lot in southeastern Cyprus is filled with the song of the blackcap, but the small warblers themselves are nowhere to be seen. The calls are hurtling out of a tiny speaker. “This is a tape player, but we’ve got CD players, we’ve got it on mp3s,” says Andreas Pitsillides, who […]
Is this the beginning of the end of the Canadian commercial seal hunt?
Comments being made in certain quarters of the Canadian politicalhierarchymay indicate that there is a creepingrealisationthat the negative publicity that Canada receives from its adherence to the annual commercial seal hunt is not worth the financial returns obtained from the selling of seal products. Ryan Cleary, a New Democrat MP representing Labrador and Newfoundland has […]
Almost 1,500 Turtles “Crammed Like Sardines” Into Suitcases
Close to 1,500 live Pig-nosed Turtles were seized yesterday in Mopah Airport, Merauke, in Papua Province, Indonesia. The 1,495 turtles were concealed inside two suitcases en route to Jakarta, the nation’s capital and a major hub for illicit wildlife trade. Valued as pets, and possibly consumed as meat in some countries, Pig-nosed Turtles are smuggled […]
Mining Claim Markers Cause Millions of Bird Deaths in Nevada
American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization, today called on the federal government to take action to eliminate the massive avian mortality threat posed by the continued use of uncapped metal or PVC mining claim marker pipes on public lands in the West. In a letter to Bureau of Land Management Director […]
Wild and Wonderful – Antelope Island State Park – The Wildlife
Article written and photos taken by Mia McPherson This is part 2 of my three part series on Wild and Wonderful Antelope Island State Park and it covers some of the wildlife that can be found howling, grazing, buzzing, napping and posing for my camera. One of the first furry critters I saw on my […]