Poachers poison waterholes to kill elephants in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean ivory poachers have in the past two months killed more than 101 elephants by poisoning water holes with cyanide, which according to Zimbabwe’s Environment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere on September 25, 2013, is endangering one of the world’s...

China smog emergency shuts city of 11 million people

Unhealthy in the extreme: “An index measuring PM2.5, or particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5), reached a reading of 1,000 in some parts of Harbin, the gritty capital of northeastern Heilongjiang province and home to some 11 million...

Dolphins as shark bait

Peru eyes restricting shark fishing to stop dolphin slaughter: http://planetark.org/wen/70108

Execute elephant poachers on the spot, Tanzanian minister urges

[M]ore than 1,000 rangers having been killed while protecting animals over the past decade. Tanzania is said to have lost half its elephants in the past three years. [O]ne elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its tusks and they could disappear from the wild by...