Illegal logging and poverty fuel local tensions in southern Senegal
In the early hours of 6 April 2018 Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a small village in the scrublands of Kolda Region on...
Rich Businessman Proudly Kills Two Baby Elephants And Poses For Pictures
After receiving major backlash, Mike Jines, a partner of TopGen Energy, is claiming he did that for ‘self-defence.’ In the recent few years, humans have not only managed to disrupt the habitats of multiple...
Botswana Plans To Cull Elephants And Sell Them As PET FOOD
Botswana is moving towards culling elephants by lifting its wildlife hunting ban after a group of the country’s ministers endorsed the idea, but the proposal has drawn heavy criticism. Botswana’ is planning to cull...
Illegal logging and poverty fuel local tensions in southern Senegal
In the early hours of 6 April 2018 Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a small village in the scrublands of Kolda Region on...
Deforestation Of The Amazon Has Reached 3 Football Fields Per Minute!
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. The amazon is being clear cut away at a horrifically rapid rate of three football fields per minute! It is encroaching on a “tipping point” at which it may not...
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: Another Grind Taking Place In The Faroe Islands
Since half past ten this morning another school of pilot whales was spotted by the Faroese. The grind is taking place north of Hoyvík in Tangafjörður. About 20 – 30 pilot fin whales are...
Largest Bee On Earth Found Alive For First Time In 38 Years
With its 2½-inch wing span, the Wallace’s giant bee is known as the largest bee on earth. But for decades, experts had feared it had gone extinct. The infamous Wallace’s bee hadn’t been seen...
Ghana: More trawlers on Ghana’s waters against dwindling stocks
Their worry is not only about the depletion of fish stocks, but the possible collapse of the entire fishing industry in the not so distant future. The fishers here are worried that the increasing number of industrial fishing vessels on Ghana’s waters is greatly contributing to the depletion of the stocks.
This is Namibia’s Secret Annual Seal Massacre
Harp seals are not the only pinniped victims of mass slaughter. Cape fur seals are also killed by the tens of thousands each year. Similarities and differences between the harp seal massacre and the...
Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants
Elephants do a lot of damage to plants as they stomp around the jungle, but, counterintuitively, by this activity elephants help the forest. The biomass of the forest will store more carbon. If elephants...
Brazilian Dentist Kills 1000 Jaguars With A Gang of Hunters
In the three months that the hunter gang was being watched by hacking their phones and downloading photos and videos, the federal police discovered they were responsible for the deaths of thousands of animals...
Pregnant Orangutan Photographed Clinging to Last Tree in Rainforest Destroyed for Palm Oil
Orangutans will be extinct in 10 years if deforestation for palm oil continues, conservation expert warns Bulldozers has cleared the forest around her — which had been teeming with life for thousands of years...
The Gambia is losing more forest cover in record speed
Gambia is losing forest is record speed.. There will soon come a time when no big tree will be left in our terrestrial ecologies and no fish in our aquatic ecosystems with highly polluted...
Tanzania: Farmers are facing heavy prison sentences if they continue their traditional seed exchange
In order to receive development assistance, Tanzania has to give Western agribusiness full freedom and give enclosed protection for patented seeds. “Eighty percent of the seeds are being shared and sold in an informal...
Fish and chip restaurant closes when owners witness depleted sea
A fish and chip restaurant has closed after its owners were left shocked when they saw how depleted the sea was of fish while on a boating trip. A poster in the window of...
Notorious South Korea Dog Meat Market Shut Down
Humane Society International first announced in June that the dog meat market in South Korea, one of the country’s largest, would be shuttered. The Gupo dog meat market in Busan, South Korea, has officially been...
39 KG of Cocaine Discovered on Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s G-20 Advanced Plane
Spanish police discovered 39 kilograms of cocaine in Bolsonaro’s advance party plane to the G-20 summit that will take place in Osaka
Man Proudly Kills Endangered Hornbill and Shows Off Online, Now Faces 5 Years In Jail
In a report by Suar Indonesia, a man tried to brag about murdering an endangered bird online, but after it became viral, it backfired. Now, netizens are angered and the police have arrested him...
China Conquers Africa Completely by the End of 2019
The devil is in the detail as China’s generosity towards African countries has peaked in recent years coinciding with the great economic vision and strides by the continent as a single body in the...
Export of Fish Meal from Africa a Threat to Millions in Africa, say Greenpeace
DAKAR, June 20 — The exporting of tonnes of fish oil and fish meal from Africa to China and Europe poses a serious danger to the diets of millions of Africans, the Greenpeace environmental...
India: This Mechanic from Rajasthan Has Rescued Over 1,180 Injured Wild Animals
Peera Ram Bishnoi is a mechanic who earns his livelihood working at his small puncture repair shop near National Highway-65 in India. But there’s something extraordinary about the story of this ordinary man. In...
Cruise Ship Company Carnival Fined $28M For Pumping Pollution Into Oceans
Miami: The world’s largest cruise line company, Carnival, has agreed to pay a $US20 million ($28 million) penalty because its ships continued to pollute the oceans despite a previous criminal conviction aimed at curbing similar...
China invents ‘mind-reading chip’ that ‘sends your thoughts to a computer’
A MIND reading brain computer chip has been announced at the World Intelligence Congress in China. The breakthrough device is called Brain Talker and allows a person to control a computer with just their...
Cambodia Stops Cruel Elephant Rides At Famous Temple Ankor Wat
Cruel elephant rides at a famous temple in Cambodia are now coming to an end. The overworked group of 14 elephants will no longer be forced to work at Angkor Wat, where over 2.5 million international tourists visit each year.
Five Things to Know About Botswana’s Decision to Lift Ban on Hunting Elephants
The move has been criticized by conservationists but lauded by locals who say wild elephants are ruining their livelihoods.
India Lost 51 Tigers in the First Five Months Since January 2019
a recent response to National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) states, India has lost 51 tigers in territorial fight, poaching or electrocution in the first five months, till May 29, 2019.
VIDEO: Men Cut Off Shark’s Tail And Release It, Now Face Possible Criminal Charges
Two seamen, Halldór Gústaf and Gunnar Þór, recorded themselves cutting the tail off of what appears to be a Greenland shark, laughing about it, before tossing it back into the sea in Iceland. Both...
Mexico: Customs agents seize 10 tonnes of shark fins in Manzanillo
toms agents in Manzanillo, Colima, have confiscated a large haul of illegal shark fins bound for the Philippines.
