Dr. Thomas Kahema, Executive Director of TAWESCO in Tanzania, recently did an interview with Capital TV in Dar es Salaam. Their organization does wonderful work with rescue, spay/neuter, medical care, and adoption of community animals. To watch the interview, click here. To visit TAWESCO’s Facebook page, click here. Photo: Courtesy of TAWESCO / A recent adoption; Maya was adopted by Nancy Moshi.
Today, Dutch conservation Landschap Overijsselreports that a rare species, the northern emerald dragonfly, has been found reproducing in Wierdense Veld nature reserve.
Probably, these insects have benefited from a higher water level in the reserve.
(Reuters) – A spike in earthquakes across Oklahoma is forcing the state’s energy regulator to urgently consider tougher restrictions on drilling activity, a spokesman said on Wednesday, calling it a “game changer.”
From June 17 to 24, there have been 35 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater in the state, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey. Particularly worrying for regulators, some of the recent quakes occurred in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, where there are no high-volume wastewater injection wells.
Continue reading: RPT-Oklahoma drilling regulator calls spike in quakes a “game changer”
“There is one especially interesting aspect of the current political landscape, and that is the matter of human populations. At one time a widely debated and much analyzed problem of the day, human population pressure has mysteriously slipped from both political and popular ‘environmental’ agendas.”[
[So wrote the late Canadian naturalist, and outspoken author, John A. Livingston in his 1994 book, Rogue Primate, back when there were only 5.67 billion of us as opposed to today’s 7.3 billion.]
“There is plenty of talk about food distribution (there is enough food for everyone in the world if we could only get it to them) and both industrial and low-impact agriculture, but the matter of absolute human numbers appears to have receded, if not from our private reflections, from our public utterances.
“The deadliest and most insidious form of thought repression is self-censorship. It has
8 is enough, but 13 is…
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LEGO will invest $150 million to build a sustainable materials research center at its headquarters in Denmark. It is hiring over 100 specialists in material science to shape the green future of the building brick. PHOTO: Pinterest
By 2030, LEGOs will no longer be made of plastic. Instead, the world’s largest toy company will be using a more “sustainable material” to compose their toy blocks, which have been made of a strong plastic called acrylonitrile butadiene styrene since 1963.
While the switch will certainly save the company on its carbon footprint — the production of LEGOs uses more than 6,000 tons of plastic annually — it won’t be cheap. The Lego Group plans to invest $1 billion in their new Lego Sustainable Materials Centre in Denmark, where a team of 100 specialists will conduct research to find the best sustainable replacement for the building blocks’ current building material.
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This Zulu phrase means wild animals. There are about 12,000 white, and 627 black rhinos in Kruger National Park. This one is looking at you for protection!
Leopards in Kruger are rare and rarely seen.
We were very lucky to see this one! The Kruger population is estimated at approximately 1000, although they are hard to count, because they are hard to find.
1,700 lions are thought to live in Kruger.
There are about 37,000 cape buffalo, and yes this one is sleeping. They do that a lot in water holes!
There are only around 300 nyala. This is a male and two females. Quite a sighting of beautiful, shy, creatures!
2000 warthogs,
5000 waterbuck,
over 127,000 impala,
and more than 8,000 kudu call Kruger home. A trip to Kruger is an incredible experience and aids the park’s impressive wildlife conservation efforts.
Estimates, calculated between 2008 and 2009. Read more…
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This video is called Humpback Whales – BBC documentary excerpt.
From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
Humpback whale numbers increasing as conservation practices take effect; tourism benefiting
By Bridget Brennan
22 June 2015
If you have ever wanted to watch the migration of humpback whales along Australia’s east coast, now is a great time to do it.
Whale watchers and marine officers say humpback numbers are up by between 8 and 10 per cent in 2015, sending thousands of additional humpback whales along the New South Wales coast.
From May to August, the humpbacks relocate from cold Antarctic waters to the warmer Queensland climate, where pregnant females will give birth.
Wildlife officer Geoff Ross, from New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, said better conservation practices have helped the humpback population bounce back in recent years.
“They’re definitely recovering, the science tells us that humpback whales are recovering…
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http://wildlifenews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/gaza-camp-lion-fourpaws-400×300.jpg – International animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS has launched an emergency mission to rescue two lion cubs living in a refugee camp in the Gaza strip, which the charity says now pose a significant threat to people in the camp.
The lion cubs, which have been named Mona and Max, made headlines… – http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2015/06/animal-welfare-charity-to-rescue-lion-cubs-from-refugee-camp-in-gaza/
White Rhinos, Kenya
The African rhino species originated on this planet about 14.2 million years ago. Let’s take a look at this astounding creature.
A century ago, at least in Africa, rhinos were heading for extinction due to over-hunting in the colonial era. Now, all five rhino species are killed for their horns, which are coveted for medicinal purposes and ornamental carvings. Sadly, sophisticated poaching syndicates have evolved into organized crime, utilizing advanced technologies and weaponry.
The dwindling rhinoceros population is so depressing that I will stop talking about it at this point. You can, however, click here to read the exact numbers of remaining species. Fortunately, there have been enormous conservation efforts toward reviving the population; and the white rhinos, the most abundant rhino species, have increased.
There are rhinos in Africa and Asia, a total of five different species. The two African rhinos are called Black and White…
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Conservation Magazine writes about why lizards need elephants to survive?
Lizards, it turns out, rely on the debris created by elephants as they trample trees. Shards of wood and leaves haphazardly left behind by marching pachyderms provide good cover for a small lizard to escape the piercing talons of a hungry raptor. Kill the elephants, and the lizards could suffer.
Read full story at Why lizards need elephants to survive – Conservation.
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