by faster | Oct 11, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 11, 2020 SNIP: More tigers are now held in captivity in the United States than survive in the wild in Asia. That is the grim statistic that underpins Americans’ growing appetites for posing for pictures with big cats and their...
by faster | Oct 7, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: WildEarth Guardians DATE: October 7, 2020 SNIP: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s wildlife killing program has just announced its shocking death toll of wildlife killed last year. In 2019, USDA’s Wildlife Services program spent millions of taxpayer dollars...
by faster | Oct 1, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: People.com DATE: October 1, 2020 SNIP: A herd of elephants were recently spotted foraging for meals in the middle of a trash dump in Sri Lanka. Photographer Tharmaplan Tilaxan of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, captured a series of snapshots that document the large wild...
by faster | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC and The Guardian DATE: September 10, 2020 SNIP: Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report by the conservation group WWF. The report says this “catastrophic decline” shows no sign...
by faster | Aug 8, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Narwhal DATE: August 8, 2020 SNIP: For years, Canada’s most western province has marketed itself as “Super, Natural, B.C.” But the B.C. government is failing to protect the myriad species that inhabit the province’s many ecosystems, from the coast to the...
