A quote from an article by author Edward Hoagland, age 76, published in Harper’s Magazine, March 2009
Archive for the ‘endangered species’ Category
Simmering in the Soil
Posted in climate change, elephants, endangered species, extinction, palm oil, vanishing wildlife, tagged Africa, bushmeat, climate change, elephants, extinction, habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, orangutans, palm oil on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Act now to save an entire herd of elephants from being gunned down
Posted in elephants, endangered species, habitat loss, vanishing wildlife, tagged elephant slaughter, elephants, habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seventy elephants in a large herd consisting of adults and babies in Malawi will be shot due to human-elephant conflict unless funds can be raised to move them to a wildlife reserve.
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is working to raise the funds to relocate the herd to Majete Wildlife Reserve, a protected park, one [...]
Furadan: Wildlife killing pesticide banned by the EPA being considered for ban in Canada
Posted in Canada, animal cruelty, endangered species, environment, food, health, pesticides, vanishing wildlife, tagged pesticides, birds, wildlife, lions, wildlife poisoning, Mara Triangle, Wildlife Direct, Carbofuran, Furadan, American Bird Conservancy, Canadian Government, EPA, pesticide ban, FMC Corporation on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last year we were all horrified to learn about lions in Kenya’s Mara Triangle with paralyzed limbs dying in agony from poisoning by a cheap American pesticide called Carbofuran (Furadan) produced by FMC Corporation.
I posted about this crisis on my old blog
A campaign was started through Wildlife Direct on the Stop Wildlife Poisoning blog, conferences [...]
Maneka Gandhi on India’s vanishing wildlife and the “race to the finish”
Posted in endangered species, tagged endangered species, India's wildlife, Maneka Gandhi, People for Animals on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maneka Gandhi is an ardent animal rights activist, politician and former journalist in India. This inspiring and brilliantly eloquent woman has been a minister in four governments, and has written a number of books.
She is the Chairperson for People for Animals, India’s largest animal welfare organization, which runs a large animal rescue centre in Delhi, [...]
Marine life carnage through longline fishing
Posted in endangered species, tagged endangered albatrosses, longline fishing, marine life carnage, shark extinction, tuna fishing on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Imagine if hunters were able to set trap lines that were 130 kilometres long through forested or open habitats to which various kinds of traps and snares and other animal catching devices were attached.
Then they would use a winch to drag the line back along with its terrified, writhing and mangled catch, select the desirable [...]
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