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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...
Wonder why wildlife is disappearing? The government is killing cougars, bobcats, bears, wolves and coyotes to protect cows, pigs and chickens. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s own reports, it has killed over 34...
A dead longcomb sawfish, a critically endangered species of shark, was hauled in Sindhudurg on Sunday morning. A dead longcomb sawfish, a critically endangered species of shark, was hauled in Sindhudurg, a district in Maharashtra, on...
By Michael Chase and Scott Schlossberg, Elephants Without Borders A response to: Kathleen Alexander – Virginia Tech University, John (Tico) McNutt – Botswana Predator Conservation Trust, and Mark Vandewalle – CARACAL. Clearing up misconceptions...
After years of investigation, officials in the Czech Republic have uncovered a gruesome tiger slaughterhouse where dead animals were being processed for sale on the black market. Operation Trophy discovered the facility in Prague, exposing...
Every year, as a direct result of deforestation for palm oil, approximately 6,000 orangutans are killed. Not only is the ingredient (which is common in household products) devastating animals’ natural habitats, it is polluting the environment....
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...
Kenya is home to a number of iconic animals ranging from elephants and rhinoceros to giraffes, leopards and cheetahs. Elephants and rhinoceros are among the most threatened, as their tusks and horns make them...
Due to the reserve’s large diversity of animals, the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa has seen plenty of action from poachers over the last few years. Recently though, karma came calling for a...
A damning report by WWF puts the worsening condition of Planet Earth into perspective Humans have been around for more than 2 million years. But in the last 44 years, we have achieved what...
By David Moskowitz The last caribou known to inhabit the contiguous United States has been removed from the wild. This week, a team of biologists working for the Canadian province of British Columbia captured the...
Deforestation has left elephants’ habitats smaller and more fractured A mob of people in an Indian village have brutally attacked an elephant and her calf, hurling firebombs at the pair after they wandered onto farmland....
More than 100 cetaceans have been found cooped up inside a series of tiny enclosures off Russia’s Pacific coast near the southeastern city of Nakhodka. In total, 11 orcas and 90 beluga whales are...
‘Africa is poor, but we can try to help its people’. It’s a simple statement, repeated through a thousand images, newspaper stories and charity appeals each year, so that it takes on the weight...
Environmental groups say Russia, China and Norway played part in rejecting plan A plan to turn a huge tract of pristine Antarctic ocean into the world’s biggest sanctuary has been rejected, throwing the future of one...
Beijing’s decision prompts outcry from global conservation groups amid fears over endangered species future in the wild. China has defended its decision to reverse aspects of a decades-old ban on the trade of tiger bones...