Bald eagles across the United States are dying from lead bullets — but it’s not because they’re being shot. The Cape Fear Raptor Center, North Carolina’s largest eagle rehab facility, has treated seven eagles in the past month for lead poisoning, executive director Dr. Joni Shimp told CNN. Since November, at least 80% of the […]
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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 […]
Rodent Poison Found in Two Dead Southern California Mountain Lions
One of two mountain lions found dead recently in the Santa Monica Mountains was killed by potent chemicals used to poison rodents, according to National Park Service researchers who have been studying the region’s famed big cats for nearly 20 years. The mountain lion, known as P-30, is the fifth in a long-term study of […]
Petition: Ban Use of Pesticides Killing Bees in Texas!
Over 70 percent of the world’s crop species that feed humans are pollinated by bees. Simply put, we needbees. If anyone isn’t interested in the conservation of species just because they deserve to live, then maybe they care that it will affect humans badly if bees were to go extinct. Yet, bee populations are rapidly […]
Gruesome gamekeeper kept ‘kill list’ and dumped ‘1000 animals into stink pit’
A gamekeeper suspected of running up one of the biggest kill lists of endangered animals in Scottish history has escaped a jail sentence. Alan Wilson, 61, was convicted of illegally killing dozens of animals on Longformacus Estate near Duns in the Scottish Borders. But investigators believe animals including goshawks, badgers, buzzards and an otter represented […]
Poachers Are Invading Botswana, Last Refuge of African Elephants
In September, conservationists in Botswana discovered 87 dead elephants, their faces hacked off and tusks missing. Poaching, the researchers warned, was on the rise. The news had international repercussions. Botswana had been one of the last great elephant refuges, largely spared the poaching crisis that has swept through much of Africa over the past decade. […]
‘Like a horror movie’: Dozens of corellas dead after falling from sky in suspected poisoning
Nearly 60 native birds have died after they fell out of the sky in front of horrified onlookers and a nearby primary school in a suspected case of mass poisoning in South Australia. Bird rescuers said it was like “something out of a horror movie” as dozens of birds fell, bleeding from their eyes and […]
Petition: Demand Harsher Penalties for Wildlife Abusers
A man in Tubbut, Australia is guilty of killing over 406 eagles over the course of two years. He would do this by injecting poison into the necks of sheep and leaving their bodies on the property where he worked. This, of course, led to eagles and other birds feeding on their carcasses and dying. […]