appeal to three presidents to save the monarch butterfly gets promising response
Betty Aridjis writes :
Our letter addressed to Presidents Obama and Peña Nieto and Prime Minister Harper received excellent coverage in the Mexican and international media, and we were successful in getting the Monarch butterfly on the North American Leaders’ Summit agenda.
Here is the relevant paragraph from the joint statement released at the end of the …Read More
lions lose ground in uganda
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=9049391&jid=ORX&volumeId=-1&issueId=-1&aid=9049389
400 new species including a vegetarian piranha found in amazon
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/23/scientists-find-morethan400newspeciesinamazonrainforest.html
the one that took a deep surgical triangular chunk out of my left middle finger when I was doing the vanity fair story about the dehydration of the amazon was definitely not a vegetarian. and I was not bleeding or menstruating, nor were my toenails painted red. Most piranha attacks on people happen when they …Read More
sharkfin victory may offer hope for elephants
Even cultures with long, established traditions of consuming wild animal parts can change. As WildAid’s Peter Knights says, “It is a myth that people in Asia don’t care about wildlife. Consumption is based on ignorance not malice.” After a concerted publicity campaign Chinese consumption of sharkfin soup is down 60-70%. Now it’s the elephants’ turn. …Read More
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
rhino horn and ivory selling cheap and in the open in Jo’burg
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-00-rhino-horn-trade-thrives-in-joburg
africans aren’t the only ones killing the elephants
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nra-hunting-show-nbcsn-elephant-hitler-cancelled
We should raise a glass of champagne ourselves and toasted NBC for yanking this show.
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