Poachers Attack Endangered Sea Turtle and Their Protectors
Less than two weeks after publishing the graphic images of poached sea turtles on the French island of Mayotte, Sea Shepherd’s conservation team interrupted another [...]
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The Forgotten Ones — The Giraffe’s Silent Extinction
The giraffe are currently heading towards extinction, with populations having fallen by nearly 40% over the last 30 years, from approximately 160,000 in 1985 to about 97,500 [...]
Savanna elephant numbers are only a quarter of their expected values
Recent population estimates from the 73 protected areas we assessed collectively totaled <25% of the predicted ecological benchmark. We caution that the situation would [...]
South Africa lifts ban on domestic rhino horn sales
South Africa’s highest court has rejected a bid by the government to keep a ban on domestic trade in rhino horn, a court document shows.The ruling by the constitutional [...]
Possible Oldest Pachyderm Murdered By Poachers For Tusk Ivory
A 50-year-old elephant with tusks weighing more than 100 pounds each was found dead in a national park in Kenya Monday. Satao II, named for another giant elephant who was [...]
World’s Largest Gorilla Declared Critically Endangered – EcoWatch
Grauer’s gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri), a subspecies of eastern gorilla, the world’s largest ape, and confined to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has [...]
Africa Has Lost a Third of Its Elephants in Just 7 Years | TakePart
Earlier this week, the hacked-up bodies of at least 26 elephants were discovered in Botswana’s heavily protected Chobe National Park, the largest and most brutal poaching [...]
Poaching drives huge 30% decline in Africa’s savanna elephants | Environment | The Guardian
Poaching has driven a huge decline in Africa’s savanna elephants with almost a third (30%) wiped out between 2007 and 2014, the first ever continent-wide survey of the [...]
Is It Ethical to Kill Poachers? | TakePart
Finally, Peterson looked at the question from the field of ethics known as war theory. “The just war theory,” she said, “lays out a series of criteria, such as do you [...]
Gorillas are being killed and eaten by miners in the Congo – and your love of tech devices is part of the problem #bushmeatfree
An endangered gorilla species is being pushed towards extinction as mineral miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hunt it for bushmeat. Concerns have now been [...]
