Goblin sharks (Mitsukurina owstoni) live... - I fucking love science. The Flip Side. Eye Witness. Tantalising Temptation. Target Aquired. Elephants Never Forget. ...To Skin a Cat - a film by Dan O'Berry. White Oak Conservation - Yulee - Organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) Cheetah hunting by moonlight. Treehugger: dolphin finds pod! TreeHugger Earth Day Nature Selfies are totally silly and that’s why you should take one It's Earth Day.
Let’s go outside and have some fun. Latest Stories from TreeHugger The new Apple headquarters may be suburban office park, but it is the sexiest and greenest one ever built April 22, 11:23 AM by Lloyd Alter in Green Architecture I have called this building an anti-urban gated city, a glass prison. Rhino Conservation. Prince William's war on rhino butchers as he enters the fray for beleaguered ... Rhino horn is now worth more than cocaine, with China fueling the demandWithout drastic intervention, the species faces extinction in the wildCampaign will be supported by Prince Harry and Duchess of Cambridge By Andrew Malone Published: 01:54 GMT, 25 January 2014 | Updated: 13:18 GMT, 25 January 2014 The animal was heavily pregnant.
But her swollen abdomen did not deter the poachers eyeing her from a position downwind. As this magnificent 28-year-old rhino foraged in the African bush, the men stalking her opened fire. Death did not come quickly for their prey. The creature was still alive when she was eventually found by game rangers in South Africa late last year. Tough job: An avowed lover of Africa, Prince William will next month attend a conference at Downing Street on the illegal wildlife trade on behalf of a body called United For Wildlife.
Hands-on care. Rhino Nose Jobs. 16 October 2013Last updated at 13:31 ET Tracking and darting each rhino in order to implant a hidden microchip is an ambitious project Kenya is embarking on an ambitious plan to microchip every rhino in the country in a drive to combat a surge of poaching, say wildlife officials.
The microchips will be implanted in the horns of more than 1,000 rhinos. Officials hope the chips will enable live animals to be tracked and poached horns to be traced, improving the chances of poachers being prosecuted. Soaring prices for ivory and horn have prompted a "gold rush" in poaching across much of Africa. In August, a white rhino was shot dead in one of Kenya's most secure parks, Nairobi National Park. Rhino horn is highly prized in Asia, where it is used in traditional medicine. The micro-chipping project is being supported by the World Wildlife Fund, which donated the chips and five scanners at a cost of $15,300 (£9,700). Rhino Update Part 1. Rhino Sunset. Hide & Seek. Which would you choose? Advice to Travellers. World Lion Day. Magnificence. The King. The Best Way Possible To Protest A Lion Hunt. You’ve probably heard of the firestorm surrounding Melissa Bachman last week when she posted a picture of herself back from a “hunt” in Africa.
The photo, which she posted on Facebook, features Bachman next to a lion corpse, in which she describes the great time she had stalking and killing the beast. Now, this awesome guy has fired back, and shows us how easy it is to get close to a wild lion. Perhaps the best burn is a well thought out and intelligently written burn. Snooze. George Adamson. Kampi ya Simba, Kora National Park, Kenya.
World Lion Day 2013. Inside the Global Industry That's Slaughtering Africa's Elephants. The scale of poaching is a criminal horror.
Why Obama should make it a priority issue -- in his meeting with China's Xi Jinping this week and beyond Members of the Pilanesberg National Park Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) stand guard as conservationists and police investigate the scene of a rhino poaching incident April 19, 2012. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters) "Please, I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be protectors of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.