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Wildlife Trade Bans May Put Species in Danger

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

While founded with good intentions, wildlife trade bans may in some cases be worsening the plight of some endangered species, argues a commentary published in the journalTropical Conservation Science. Looking at three animals listed under the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered S...

How to Save the Rhino

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Glen Martin Author, 'Game Changer: Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa's Wildlife' The holocaust of the African rhinoceros is accelerating, with the very real possibility that both the continent's species -- white and black rhinos -- could be extinct outside zoos in a matter of years. At the begi...

Expanding Gorilla Conservation

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Two months after media-mogul Ted Turner donated $1 million to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, the group has already begun to expand conservation efforts in Eastern Congo amid growing regional instability. The gift has allowed the organizatio...

Slash helps launch Bob Irwin Wildlife Conservation Foundation

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 24 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

On Wednesday, Slash was on hand to help launch the Bob Irwin Wildlife Conservation Foundation at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia. Slash says he first met Bob, the father of the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, a couple of years ago at a music festival. "He [Bob] brought some...

7 Most Helpful Things Being Done to Save Sharks Today

Posted by MStayman on Wednesday, 15 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Sharks are one of our planet's most misunderstood and maligned creatures, and the pressure from human activities on shark populations has been pushing some species of these fish toward extinction. An estimated one-third of shark species is under threat of extinction, millions of sharks are kill...

Groups seek protection for California's great white sharks

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Monday, 13 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Environmental groups have petitioned the federal government to list the declining population of great white sharks off the coast of California as an endangered species. The northeastern Pacific Ocean population of great whites is genetically distinct and in danger of extinction, according to the pe...

Cameroon increases elephant protection after mass slaughter

Posted by Angel on Friday, 10 August 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Yaoundé, Cameroon — Six months after the killing of hundreds of elephants in a Cameroon national park, WWF today is releasing exclusive video material from the scene of the shocking event. The release comes on the eve of World Elephant Day on Sunday, August 12, 2012. WWF fears that soon this event m...

Whaling: From 'bloody' to 'boring'?

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 03 July 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

by Richard Black The Australian minister for sustainability, environment, water, population and communities is due in Panama City for a couple of days to bang the drum for what has been his country's favourite environmental cause - whaling. But it might be a visit that no-one notices. When I cove...

U.S. Resolves to Take the Lead in Whale Conservation

Posted by Aaron on Saturday, 30 June 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

By International Fund for Animal Welfare With President Barack Obama declaring June "National Oceans Month," the sanctity of the marine ecosystem resonates around the globe. Reaffirming their commitment to the oceans and those that inhabit them, Representatives Bill Keating and Howard Berman have i...

Poachers Attack Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 25 June 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Early in the morning on Sunday, Simba rebels (Mai Mai) attacked the Institute in Congo for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) and headquarters for the Okapi Wildlife Reserve near the village of Epulu in the northeastern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the Okapi Conservation Pr...

the mountain gorilla was swiftly destined to be lost to the world

Posted by Angel on Friday, 11 May 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Hidden high among the forested volcanoes of central Africa, the mountain gorilla was unknown to science until 1902, when two were first encountered by a German explorer -- and promptly killed. It set the tone for the relationship. For much of the time since, due to deforestation and poach...

Yangtze porpoises in China as population nears extinction

Posted by amir on Wednesday, 02 May 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Six years after the Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), or baiji, was declared "functionally extinct" by scientists, another marine mammal appears on the edge of extinction in China's hugely degraded Yangtze River. In less than two months, 32 Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorien...

Strong effort of conservation groups helps limit budget cuts

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 02 May 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

At some point in our lives most of us have been offered this advice: If you keep expectations low, you won't be disappointed. Photos by Michael E. EsteySmall, isolated wetlands like these produce 70 percent of the ducks in the critical prairie pothole region of North Dakota and South Dakota. Foll...

WB launches wildlife conservation project

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 13 February 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

World Bank launched a $36 million project on Sunday for conservation of endangered wildlife which has become extinct due to their illegal trade and unplanned development activities. Evden Eve NakliyatKayseri Evden Eve Nakliyatdizi izle “This will be a milestone in regional cooperation for wildlife ...

Smuggling elephants to get money to pay for identity cards.

Posted by amir on Thursday, 19 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

The chief of Phetchaburi's Kaeng Krachan district denied yesterday there was any need for Karen people to bribe officials, after a senior official's comment that Karen poachers were trying to smuggle elephants to get money to pay for identity cards. Sutthipong Tanboonyasiridech di...

Selling Whales to Save Them?

Posted by Aaron on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

When it comes to commercial whaling, things are rarely as simple as they seem. The fact that it continues, 30 years after the International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted for an indefinite moratorium, suggests that there has been some kind of failure on the part of environmentalists and other oppone...

Sumatran rhinos find each other

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Puntung is a Sumatran rhino, one of roughly two hundred left in the world. Captured in a Borneo forest on Christmas Day, she is the latest addition to Malaysia's Borneo Rhino Sanctuary -- and experts say she may also be one of the last hopes for a species on the brink of extinction. Veterinarians ...

Can This Baby Polar Bear Save His Species?

Posted by Angel on Monday, 02 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Siku, a polar bear cub born in captivity in Denmark, has taken the Internet by storm. It's not a surprise, he's so cute! When Siku was born at the Scandinavian Wildlife Park November 22, 2011 his mother had not produced milk for three years. "Instead of leaving the cub to die we decided to try to ...

'Christmas miracle' for endangered rhinos

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

Conservationists and wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah airlifted a young female Sumatran Rhinoceros — one of the world's most endangered animals — to an area of forest where she would encounter a potential partner, reports the Sabah Wildlife Department and Borneo Rhino Alliance. Sum...

Endangered Biodiversity in Mexico

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 in Wildlife Conservation

The United Mexican States are characterized by their diverse ecosystems, and are very rich in terms of their flora and fauna, while many of the organisms are endemic and exclusive to that zone. However, the inhabitants of these ecosystems are sometimes subject to neglect, excessive hunting and threa...