Where the animals of the worst zoo in the world will go
The Khan Younis zoo in Gaza, where few animals lived in dreadful conditions, is now effectively closed. Now the survivors are off to a better life.
Zambia revises hunting ban for big cats
The Zambian government has put in place new plans with regards to a hunting ban concerning big cats in order to regulate wildlife populations. Big cats are found in all of the country’s national parks, but their numbers are depleting significantly. According to estimates, the country has between 2,502 and 4,668 lions. Too few big cats “The
What is Grindadráp and why is whaling in the Faroe Islands so controvesial
Grindadráp is the local name for a yearly event that sees the people of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing archipelago under Denmark, hunt long-finned pilot whales as well as other species of cetaceans such as bottlenose dolphins, white-sided dolphins and Risso’s dolphins. These species aren’t on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s list of endangered animals, but
A Bollywood music composer buys a forest to save tigers
Abhishek Ray, a Bollywood music composer, has put all his savings in a natural reserve to protect wild tigers from the devastating impact of humans.
Colobus Conservation, restoring Kenya’s coasts to protect monkeys
The rare Angolan black and white colobus monkey lives high in the trees and hardly ever comes down to the ground. It is a leaf eater and the forest is essential to its survival. On the southern coast of Kenya, where the coral rag forests which are extremely rich in biodiversity have slowly been disappearing in favour of
China bans the sale of food made from endangered species
Le autorità della Cina hanno approvato una legge che vieta la vendita di cibi a base di animali a rischio di estinzione. Ma la norma non convince tutti.
Mosha, the elephant wounded by a land mine, gets her new prosthetic leg
Mosha was only 7 months old when she was maimed. She stepped on a land mine on the border between Thailand and Myanmar. More than ten years have passed from that. This week, she received her new prosthetic leg (the ninth) thanks to the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation, an hospital in northern Thailand. Along with Mosha,
Elephants risk vanishing from Tanzania’s largest game reserve
Elephants could vanish from Tanzania’s Selous Game Reserve within the next six years, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned. Saving Selous: what’s at stake The only site in southern Tanzania to have been awarded UNESCO World Heritage status for its exceptional natural significance, Selous is one of the world’s largest game reserves. Up until the
Andy Murray and Kevin Spacey team up to protect tigers
Il tennista britannico e l’attore statunitense hanno lanciato un appello per sostenere la campagna del Wwf per la tutela delle tigri.
A near-total ban on ivory coming soon to the United States
In response to an alarming rise in the poaching of the African elephant population, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a near-total ban on the sale of ivory products in the country, even across state lines. It will take effect on the 6th of July. While ivory import bans and restrictions have been in