Four of the world’s remaining eight Northern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) are settling in to their new home in the Ol Pejeta reserve in Kenya. They were shipped to the reserve from Dvur Kralove zoo in the Czech Republic, where they’ve been for the past 30 years. They were sent in crates that were [...]
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Lion poaching on the increase…
With dwindling numbers, rapid habitat loss including poisoning by farming communities, increasingly high numbers of lions are being both targeted and have become victims of reckless snaring. Below are some heart breaking images: Video of poachers caught in the Mara Triangle with a young freshly skinned lion. As you can see his main has not [...]
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Elephant Threats And What Is Causing Them To Disappear
There are many elephant threats that have significantly depleted the elephant population. The largest of the threats has been the ivory trade as ivory is only found in elephants as their tusks are made of ivory. For many years elephants were strictly hunted for these treasures and because of the elephant’s natural long lifespan they [...]
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Heavy Poaching Puts Elephants At Elevated Extinction Risk
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington conservation biologist contends it is because the public seems to be unaware of the [...]
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Introducing the Bush Warriors Rhino Sanctuary In South Africa
Over the last 4 year we have steadily seen the increase in rhino poaching in [...]
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