Posted in Kenya, climate change, global warming, vanishing wildlife, tagged climate change, drought, food shortages, global warming, human population, hunger, overpopulation, wildlife on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
BLOG ACTION DAY
A powerful guest post by blogger Not Honey
No one likes to talk about human overpopulation as the number one crisis facing our planet. Environmentalists and wildlife protectors may not like to talk about it because they likely have children, and there’s the idea that having as many kids as you want is a [...]
Posted in Kenya, environment, global warming, vanishing wildlife, tagged Africa, Camps International, elephants, flipflop whale, flipflop whale shark, Kenya, marine pollution, poaching, snares on August 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I posted some time ago about Mfalme, the Minke whale made of discarded flipflops gathered by volunteers from the beaches of Kenya.
What a beautiful boy he is and what a shame he was fated to be beached in a park in Mombasa instead of touring museums worldwide to educate about marine pollution and resultant death [...]
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 »
A quote from an article by author Edward Hoagland, age 76, published in Harper’s Magazine, March 2009
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, climate change, environment, global warming, vanishing wildlife, tagged Africa, Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Canadian mining companies, climate change, climate crisis, Elizabeth May, Harper, Obama, U.S.A. on June 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It is abundantly clear that people and governments are not reacting appropriately to the catastrophic consequences of climate change.
In North America, Obama’s administration appears to be bowing to pressure and backtracking on climate action while Canada remains a moral renegade obstructing climate talks so it can continue to wallow in the filth of the Alberta [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in animal cruelty, vanishing wildlife, tagged animal cruelty, Australia, kangeroo cull, kangeroos on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two of Britain’s former colonies appear to have bashing baby animals to death as a hobby in common.
The Aussies are going to club thousands of baby kangaroos after a decision to “cull” by the regional government of New South Wales. The Daily Mail has covered this story. You can read it here.
The article also covers [...]
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