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Jane Goodall Institute Celebrates 50 Years, Action to Save Chimpanzees Still Urgent

Posted by joeycello on Monday, 05 April 2010 in Animals

Just a century ago, more than 1 million chimpanzees roamed the African forests. Today, scientists figure there are perhaps as few as 300,000 chimpanzees left. Without concerted action, the possibility of zero chimpanzees in the wild – indeed, a world in which remaining forests and savannas are virt...

Where Do Puffins Go in the Winter?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

A recent increase in winter mortality in Atlantic puffins could be due to worsening conditions within the North Sea, according to new findings published in the scientific journal Marine Biology. The study used geo-location technology to track puffins from the Isle of May National Nature Reserve, hom...

Rare Rhinos Relocated In Effort To Keep Species Alive

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launchedan audacious bid to save one of the world's rarest animals: thenorthern white rhinoceros. Four of the last eight known northern whitesin the world, two male and two female, were packed into wooden cratesand sent from a Czech zoo to...

Time 'may be running out' for orangutans

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

Time may be running out for orangutans living in the rainforests of Sumatra, it has been warned. According to the Jakarta Post, the "auburn haired" creatures may be facing extinction as they can now only be found in the north of Sumatra and Aceh, areas which are both being hit by deforestation. T...

About Orangutans

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 22 February 2010 in Animals

The name “orangutan” literally translates into English as “man of the forest”. It comes from Malay and Bahasa Indonesian orang (man) and hutan (forest). Orangutans are extremely intelligent creatures who clearly have the ability to reason and think. Their similarity to us is uncanny. Baby orangutan...

Only 3,500 Great Whites Now Left in the Wild

Posted by joeycello on Saturday, 20 February 2010 in Animals

Great Whites Could Go Extinct Before Tigers Two of the world's most famous carnivores are now under the microscope for being perilously close to extinction. One of them, the tiger, has gotten plenty of PR recently, along with the frightening revelation that the entire species could be on the brink ...

2009 Spring Survey Shows Drop in California Sea Otter Numbers

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 in Animals

The sluggish recovery of the southern sea otter of California, a threatened population on the Endangered Species list, appears to have stalled once again. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists say the latest 3-year running average (2,813 sea otters) was 0.5-percent lower than last year, the firs...

Number of southern sea otters counted during spring surveys, plotted as 3-year running averages

THE SHARK ANGELS

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 14 February 2010 in Animals

But you can’t stop something so terrible from happening if you don’t know about it or know why you should even care. An estimated 100,000,000 sharks were killed last year – primarily for their fins. Indeed, their populations are down to critical levels and they are still being fished out of the oce...

No-Kill Whale research sets sail

Posted by davebishop on Saturday, 06 February 2010 in Animals

No-kill researchers sail to study Antarctic whales Researchers set sail from New Zealand on Tuesday to study whales off Antarctica without killing them - an open challenge to Japan's killing of up to 1,000 whales a year in the name of science. By RAY LILLEYAssociated Press WriterWELLINGTON, New Ze...

Brookfield Zoo puts spotlight on plight of orangutans

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 15 November 2009 in Animals

By Donald Liebenson-Special to the TribuneNovember 13, 2009 A sibling drama is playing out in the replicated rain forest treetops of Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World exhibit: Denda, a 7-year-old orangutan, is snacking on a clump of alfalfa, and his toddler sister, Kekasih, wants what he's having. But ...

Japan Killing Dolphins Facts

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 07 November 2009 in Animals

In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year. In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins...

Griffith Park users outraged by shooting of 7 coyotes

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 28 September 2009 in Animals

The howls echoing through Griffith Park today are coming from joggers, parents and nannies -- not coyotes. Park visitors are angry with wildlife officials' decision to trap and shoot coyotes in the 4,210-acre mountain park. Trackers were called in to trap and shoot the animals after two people repo...

Serious Whaling

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 11 September 2009 in Animals

New Zealand and Australia claim they have created a way to do scientific research on whales without killing them. This is in response to Japan's major whaling operations that kill up to 1,000 whales per year. More information can be found at the environment section of The NZHerald.

Japan's annual dolphin cull disrupted by activists

Posted by joeycello on Monday, 07 September 2009 in Animals

From: Julian Ryall, Telegraph UK An animal rights campaigner who trained dolphins for the 1960s television series Flipper has managed to disrupt the first two days of the annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji, but accepts that as soon as he leaves the fishermen will resume the killing. ...

Dolphins being slaughtered

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 August 2009 in Animals

More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered every year in a cove in Taiji, Japan. Their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food, often times labeled as whale meat. Courageous documentary filmmakers infiltrated the heavily guarded cove to uncover the truth ab...

The Wild Dolphin Project

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 23 August 2009 in Animals

Now that The Cove - the documentary about dolphin slaughtering in Japan - has officially rolled out to most U.S. cities, people's awareness about dolphins' precarious position on this planet has risen to new levels. Films like this are incredible in that they can literally shock viewers into action...

Ground Zero for Dolphin Slaughter

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 10 August 2009 in Animals

Taiji Town: Ground Zero for the World’s Largest Dolphin Slaughter Taiji is a small fishing village located on the southern part of the Japanese archipelago at the tip of the peninsula that extends into the Pacific Ocean. This is where the practice of driving dolphins into shallow water and slaught...

MANATEE - Do we want speed boats or this unique sea mammal?

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 28 July 2009 in Animals

All over the world more than 10,000 animal species are in danger. Some are in danger because their homes are being destroyed. Many are in danger because people hunt them. Among these are the manatees. Manatees are gentle creatures that some call Sea Cows. Their Falling Numbers!!Florida Manatees ar...

Shark-infested wedding for Singapore activists

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 27 July 2009 in Animals

A Singaporean couple has tied the knot in a shark-infested tank to highlight the plight of the animals which die to fulfill the increasing Chinese taste for shark-fin soup. "We wanted to do something different and help raise consciousness of the environment," said the bride, Juliana Khoo, after she...

Ten Things You Can Do To Protect the Sharks

Posted by davebishop on Monday, 27 July 2009 in Animals

1. Support international shark fisheries’ management and conservation efforts. 2. Contact your local government representative. Demand that shark management and conservation efforts become a priority. 3. Support organizations, like Project AWARE, which are engaged in ocean conservation efforts. 4...