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Trump Jr.’s Trophy Hunt in Mongolia cost American Taxpayers $77,000
We’ve just learned that Donald Trump Jr.’s trophy hunting trip to Mongolia, where he hunted an argali sheep—an animal listed as “threatened” under the U.S. Endangered Species Act—cost American taxpayers a whopping $77,000. The revelation comes from the watchdog...
Thailand: Video of Pregnant Whale Shark Killed by Fishermen Goes Viral
Facebook user ‘Go-Eco Phuket’ local conservation group yesterday (May 18) posted a video clip with 1.11 minutes long with a message read “#RIP whale shark mother at Phuket. Why catching small fish. Catching a big fish is better with its babies. Cr.Aqua centre.” The...
Botswana: Mass Elephant Poisoning Already Counting 110 deaths
Anthrax and poisoning have been ruled out as the cause of a rising number of unexplained elephant deaths in Botswana, the country with the world’s biggest population of the animals. Wildlife authorities have now discovered 110 carcasses in north west Botswana, up from...
Six Elephants Killed In One Day By Poachers in Ethiopia
Poachers have killed at least six elephants in a single day in Ethiopia, wildlife officials said on Tuesday, the largest such slaughter in memory in the east African nation.
Japanese Whale Hunters Kill 122 Pregnant Whales
Humane Society International has expressed outrage that Japanese whale hunters killed 122 pregnant female whales year in the Southern Ocean as part of Japan's whaling program NEWREP-A.The information was contained in newly published meeting papers from the...
New York Too Has Over 80 Wet Markets That Sell & Slaughter Live Animals
New York City too has over 80 wet markets that sell ten animal species, including goats, sheep, chickens, guinea hens, rabbits, pigeons, Muscovy ducks, and quail. China’s deadly ‘wet markets’ that are notorious for allegedly being the ‘creators of coronavirus’ have...
China’s State Insurers Have Stopped Covering Pangolin Medicines
Users will no longer be reimbursed by state insurance schemes, but more action is needed to save African pangolins, says report The dropping by China’s state insurers of medicines derived from pangolin scales could help save threatened populations in Africa. The move...
VIDEO: Huge fin whale beaches on the Lizard in Cornwall
A large whale has beached on the Cornish coast. Experts from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) were called to Nare Point on the Lizard this afternoon after the poorly creature beached on rocks. Sadly the animal, thought to be 60ft long, was pronounced dead at...
Hunter Theunis Botha Crushed To Death by Huge Elephant After He Shot it
While leading a hunting trip on a game reserve in Zimbabwe, South African big game hunter Theunis Botha was killed when an elephant collapsed on him. Botha, 51, guided his first hunt through the South African grasslands in 1989 as a college student. He used the money...
Adelaide Hills School Becomes New Home to more than 100 Koalas
In a school hall north of Adelaide, some of the most vulnerable victims of South Australia's bushfire crisis are being treated at a makeshift hospital. A tent city has been set-up to accommodate more than 100 koalas found burnt, dehydrated and displaced in the...
Fishermen Mass to Overwhelm Mexico’s Protected Vaquita Porpoises
In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, dozens of endangered totoaba fish are seen captured inside small fishing boats in the Gulf of California, near San Felipe, Mexico. Sea Shepherd operates in the area to remove the...
Iceland Plans to Kill Over 2000 Whales Within the Next Five Years
ICELAND is planning to slaughter more than 2,000 whales within the next five years in a move that has sparked fury. Whalers will be allowed to harpoon 209 fin whales and 217 minke whales every year until 2023. Despite a declining global market for whale meat and...
Faroe Islands: How Much Whales Were Murdered This Year So Far? The Facts
The numbers of dolphins and pilot whales killed by the Faroese in the 12 brutal grindadrap hunts so far in 2019 is as follows: Wall of Shame 2019 1st January at Trongisvágur (Øravík) - 70 Long Finned Pilot Whales Killed29th April at Sandavágur - 105 Long Finned Pilot...
Exposed: CEO Jimmy Johns Proudly Posing with Elephants and Rhino’s he Killed
Social media users are calling for a boycott of Jimmy Johns after controversial photos of the fast-food sandwich chain's CEO resurfaced online Friday. Jimmy John Liautaud, who founded the company and currently serves as its chairman, has previously...
China can help avert an extinction crisis
Beijing will be crucial to steering an ambitious Paris-style agreement to restore global biodiversity. Earth’s biodiversity is under dire threat. The way we live our lives and treat other animals has thrown ecosystems out of balance, creating a problem so severe that...
Japan Whaling Fleet Kills 223 Whales in 2019
Japan: The notorious Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru returned to port. The whaling fleet killed 187 Bryde’s whales, 25 sei whales and 11 minke whales. Three species that average 45, 65 and 30 feet in length, returning with 1,430 tons of whale meat. A lower total...
Botswana Drought: Herds of Hippo’s Die as Lake Ngami Dries up
BOTSWANA: A hippo seeks what little respite it can from the dry, cracked mud. ‘EMOTIONALLY shattering’ photos show exhausted, parched animals draw their final breaths as their only source of water evaporates in what is said to be one of the MOST SEVERE DROUGHTS in...
‘Extinct’ Clouded Leopard Spotted Alive For the First Time in Over 30 Years
The Formosan clouded leopard, a leopard species, believed to have been completely extinct, has been spotted in southeast Taiwan for the first time in over 30 years, prompting a push to protect the big cat from hunters and habitat damage. The Formosan clouded leopard...
Brazil will let hunters shoot endangered jaguars, parrots and monkeys under new law
Jaguar could be in shooters' sights if the new law is passed, environmental lobbyists say ( Getty ) Exclusive: ‘The bill also plays into the hands of the arms industry and arms exporters, particularly those in the US’. Brazil allows jaguar hunting under new law....
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 in the wild since 1981. It’s named after American researcher Alfred Russell...
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 Cape fur seal massacre There are some significant differences between...
Brazilian Dentist Kills 1000 Jaguars With A Gang of Hunters
The oldest member of the group was engaged in jaguar poaching since 1987. 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...
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 — in just a few days. While most orangutans had run for the...
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 for his crime. The man, Bobiean Siro, upload the photos on his Facebook...
India: This Mechanic from Rajasthan Has Rescued Over 1,180 Injured Wild Animals
Peera Ram at work 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 the last decade, he has saved over...
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.
Botswana: 400 elephant hunting licenses to be granted annually, says government
Following the decision to lift the hunting ban, the Botswana government has stated that fewer than 400 elephant hunting licenses will be granted annually and that “hunting will be allowed on a small, strictly controlled basis”.
Mediterranean Olive Harvest: Millions of Songbirds Vacuumed to Death Every Year
Millions of songbirds are vacuumed out of trees and killed each year during the nocturnal Mediterranean olive harvest, researchers have warned. Over 2.6 million birds are sucked out of trees and killed every year in Andalusia. Vast numbers of legally...
Spain: Criminal Network with 4000 KG of Illegal Poached Giant Catfish Arrested
4000 KG of illegally caught catfish and carp was found by Policia Nacional A criminal network fro Romania, dedicated to fishing and illegal trafficking of carp and catfish to eastern European markets, has been rolled up in Spain. In the operation seven people have...
Species Declared Extinct in 2018 Plus One We Have Already Lost in 2019
The poʻouli, or black-faced honeycreeper, inhabited the island of Maui. (Photo: Paul E. Baker/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Earth is losing wildlife at an alarming pace, a crisis many scientists now describe as a mass extinction event. The planet has seen...
How Selling Baby Elephants to China and Dubai is Making Zimbabwe Millions
Baby elephants in Zimbabwe caught in the wild by ZimParks to be sold to China. Beating and kicking the young stressed animals.A screenshot from the video footage shot by The Guardian. A total of 97 sub-adult elephants have been exported from Zimbabwe to China and...
Kevin Pietersen: Government ‘could write cheque’ to save rhinos now
Cricket star Kevin Pietersen The government could write a cheque now and save the rhino from extinction, cricket star Kevin Pietersen has said as he lambasts celebrities who use poverty to virtue signal. The former England captain, who lives part time in the South...
Lion Farms in South Africa: Shocking Photos Reveal Horrifying Conditions
Photos of the lions show the animals almost entirely bald due to acute mange and poor, overcrowded living conditions. [Photo hsi.org] Shocking photos taken from by an anonymous source reveal severely neglected lions covered in mange at a captive breeding facility...
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.' By Apeksha Nichrelay February 12, 2019 In the recent few years, humans have not only managed to disrupt the habitats of multiple animal species, but we...
Hippo Dung Shortages Caused by Hunting Could Endanger Fish and Communities in Africa
Collapsing hippo numbers – and the loss of dung they produce – poses a threat to the species that thrive in eastern Africa’s rivers and great lakes, and the humans who rely on them. ‘In the long run there is probably going to be a problem,’ warn...
Tiger Run Over By a Tractor and Beaten to Death in India
Brutal: Villagers living near the tiger reserve entered the forest to track down the animal after it killed a man in Uttar Pradesh, northern India (Photo: Caters News Agency) A tiger has been killed by angry villagers in northern India, who ran it over with a tractor...
Chinese Ivory Queen has been sentenced to 15 years in a Tanzanian prison
Tanzania has charged a Chinese businesswoman for leading the country’s most notorious ivory poaching ring. Yang Fenglan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants worth millions of dollars over several years to Asia. Two...
Whale With Harness Could Be Russian Weapon, Say Norwegian Experts
Fisherman raised alarm after white whale sporting unusual strapping began harassing their boats. Marine experts in Norway believe they have stumbled upon a white whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special...
Bryan Adams Saves Humpback Putting Himself Between The Whale And The Hunters
An international recording artist used his body as a shield to prevent a whale from being killed off Mustique recently. Canadian born singer-songwriter, artist, and musician Bryan Adams said when he was on the Grenadine island last week, he intervened and stopped a...
One Million Species Risk Extinction Due to Humans: Draft UN Report
Experts say up to a million species face extinction - some within decades - from human activity including habitat loss, over-consumption and illegal poaching. (Photo: AFP/Wikus De Wet) PARIS: Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence,...
Gorillas perfect their selfie style in photo with park ranger
A selfie with two gorilla's Two gorillas have been snapped apparently mimicking human behavior, in a remarkable selfie with a park ranger who helped rescue them as babies. The photo, taken by a worker at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
Elephant Raju Weeps While Being Rescued After 50 Years Of Confinement
For fifty years, Raju endured various forms of abuse and lived in chains 24/7. When he became aware of his rescue, Raju the elephant couldn’t contain his emotions and weeps when rescued. A very touching moment Can you imagine what it would be like to live in...
Endangered turtle returns to Maldives beach to lay its eggs - only to discover a runway has been built on nesting site
This endangered green sea turtle laid its eggs on the runway of the newly-built Maafaru Airport in the Maldives An endangered turtle returned to a Maldives beach to lay its eggs - only to discover a runway had been built on the historical nesting site. The green sea...
China: One of World’s Most Endangered Turtles Dies, Leaving 3 Left
The last female Yagntze Giant Softshell turtle in the Chinese Suzhou Zoo Beijing (CNN)The last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle has died in China, according to Chinese state media, potentially dooming the species to extinction. The female turtle, believed...
China’s 60 Years of Environmental Destruction in Tibet
China’s latest white paper on Tibet, once again highlights Beijing’s absolute lack of understanding of Tibet’s History and its unwillingness to read beyond government documents. China’s 60 Years of Environmental Destruction in Tibet. The paper “Democratic Reform in...
Trump Quietly Decides Again To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports
The elephant playing water in the river Two elephants play in a river in Thailand. Photo: WOOTTHISAK NIRONGBOOT The Trump administration has lifted a ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from certain African countries, just over three months after...
Applause as Rhino Poaching Gang Members Sentenced to 25 Years
Advocate Terry Price, left, consults with the rhino poaching gang after they were found guilty in a Makhanda court. From left are Jabulani, Forget and Sikhumbuzo Ndlovu. Image: Adrienne Carlisle The three members of the notorious Ndlovu poaching gang were yesterday...
Ecocide is an International Crime. It Should Be Prosecuted
Businesses should be liable for the harm they do. Polly Higgins has launched a push to make ecocide an international crime. Why do we wait until someone has passed away before we honour them? I believe we should overcome our embarrassment, and say it while they are...
