In 1853 Edward Frederick Kelaart, a physician and naturalist, collected a strange frog on the island of Sri Lanka then a British colony known as Ceylon. The specimen was a large shrub frog (about 2 inches or 5.5 centimeters long) with black-outlined white specks on lime-green skin. He dubbed it “starry” after its pale specks, […]
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Over 1,500 wolves killed in the contiguous U.S. since hunting legalized
Hunters and trappers have killed approximately 1,530 wolves over the last 18 months in the contiguous U.S., which excludes Alaska. After being protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for 38 years, gray wolves (Canis lupus) were stripped of their protected states in 2011 by a legislative rider (the only animal to ever be removed […]
![Over 11,000 elephants killed by poachers in a single park [warning: graphic photo]](https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/wp-content/uploads/over-11000-elephants-killed-by-poachers-in-a-single-park-warning-graphic-photo.jpg "Over 11,000 elephants killed by poachers in a single park [warning: graphic photo]")
Over 11,000 elephants killed by poachers in a single park [warning: graphic photo]
Surveys in Gabon’s Minkebe National Park have revealed rare and hard data on the scale of the illegal ivory trade over the last eight years: 11,100 forest elephants have been slaughtered for their tusks in this remote protected area since 2004. In all, poachers have cut down the park’s elephant population by two-thirds, decimating what […]