use of cyanide takes the poaching nightmare to a new level
http://www.voanews.com/content/elephants-killed-by-cyanide-reveal-alarming-innovation-in-poaching-tactics/1760380.html
more grim news on the elephant poisonings with cyanide at Hwange Park
In my 2011 Vanity Fair piece, I describe how Johnny Rodrigues made a 24-hour video of a water hole at Hwange Park in Zimbabwe which showed that each species came to drink in its turn, and the predators didn’t kill on their prey. Every animal’s right to access to the life-giving fluid was respected. Johnny …Read More
the cyanide-using poachers have been swiftly caught and given 15 years
http://www.enca.com/africa/zimbabwe-poachers-jailed-15-years-elephant-poisoning
The introduction of cyanide into poachers’ killing methods is a new low, and the global outrage was as instant and huge as that over the Assad’s use of sarin on the women and children of Syria’s. This must be the reason why the poachers were swiftly caught and given 15 years, and unusually high sentence …Read More
now they’re using cyanide
to kill elephants at water holes in Hwange Park in Zimbabwe. http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/25/20689560-poachers-poison-90-elephants-with-cyanide-in-zimbabwe-wildlife-park?lite
This is where Johnny Rodrigues took Gullaume Bonn, Ron Beinner and I around for a day and we saw the bones of dozens of slaughtered elephants and he made a 24-video of a waterhole that showed that each species came to drink in its turn, …Read More
what’s happening in and to the world this week ending November 25
The Trailside Nature Museum at the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River, New York, is being closed in January by Westchester County budget cuts. This is really sad. Kids need to learn about natural history and to become literate in the flora and fauna they live amid, to have their natural biophilia, their love …Read More