by faster | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: June 9, 2020 SNIP: Baiting grizzly bears with doughnuts soaked in bacon grease. Using spotlights to blind and shoot hibernating black bear mothers and their cubs in their dens. Gunning down swimming caribou from motorboats. Hunting methods...
by faster | May 18, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Africa Geographic DATE: May 18, 2020 SNIP: A new study conducted by an international research team suggests that the population of forest elephants is between 40-80% smaller than previously believed. The authors of the study stress the necessity for further...
by faster | May 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Nikela DATE: May 25, 2019 SNIP: Botswana reopens hunting. The government announced yesterday they are “lifting the hunting suspension in an orderly and ethical manner”. A decision that seemed inevitable, but nevertheless is an enormous blow for Botswana’s...
by faster | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: IFLScience and Reuters DATE: July 2, 2018 SNIP: Virunga National Park and Salonga National Park – the home of mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, African forest elephants, and other rare species – could soon be welcoming some new visitors: oil companies. The...
by faster | May 21, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian and National Academy of Sciences DATE: May 21, 2018 SNIP: Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6...
