In January this year, the park authority in Gabon reported that more than 11,000 elephants had been killed in a single preserve, the Minkebe Park, since 2004. In Cameroon, more than 300 elephants were killed in the Bouba-Ndjida national park in the last two months of...
http://planetark.org/wen/68724 China’s small traditional trade in carving uses ivory acquired through legal auctions and in no way encourages or worsens the problem of elephant poaching in Africa, a senior Chinese official said on Tuesday. Demand for ivory as an...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/may/20/syria-oil-refineries
http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/04/china-is-plundering-the-planets-seas/275437/ I have always loathed the word “delicacy”. There’s nothing delicate about liquidating the biosphere.
After six years of searching, an entomologist has concluded that three varieties of butterflies native to south Florida have become extinct, nearly doubling the number of North American butterflies known to be gone. “These are unique butterflies to Florida. This...
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