Dramatic airlift of rescued lions leaves for South Africa today!
…33 lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are due to fly to a new life in South Africa on 29 April on a chartered MD11F freighter. The animals, 24 from Peru and nine from Colombia, have been rescued by international campaigning group, Animal Defenders International are heading back to their homeland after both countries banned the use of wild animals in circuses.
The 33 will arrive at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary on Saturday, April 30.
When a “pearl” becomes a “backbone,” then we can save the environment.
…those with a tendency to engage in what is called “systems thinking” — embracing complex, multifaceted causal explanations for phenomena and recognizing the unpredictability of how nature works — also tend to value the environment more and to be more concerned about climate change.
Finally getting close to action to save the Mexican gray wolf. Maybe…..
The settlement filed late Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Arizona still needs to be approved by a judge, and it's expected to be challenged by farm bureaus in three states. It would require a recovery plan to be complete by November 2017 with periodic status updates provided to parties in a lawsuit filed against the Fish and Wildlife Service.
"The Mexican gray wolf is very, very close to extinction in large part because of genetic reasons, lack of genetic diversity in the wild wolf population that is the result of years and years of mismanagement. It may be too late but hopefully not."
The attorney handling the farm bureau challenge has an interesting history in New Mexico.
Chickens beware. McDonalds might be considering putting chicken in McNuggets. What's next? Happiness in Happy Meals?
Believe it or not, a single Chicken McNugget from McDonald’s contains 32 ingredients and they’re not all chicken: sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate…the list goes on.
Cecil the Lion became more famous in death than he ever was in life. Yet while many expressed outrage and condemnation, Daniela Relja – an educator and advocate from Barrie, Canada – was not content to leave it at that. She turned her anger and sadness over the killing of Cecil into an initiative to make lions the first ever UNESCO World Heritage Species.
You can sign the petition here.
The world may be hurtling to the worst extinction crisis since the dinosaurs were wiped out, but the US is claiming success in its own efforts to prevent species following the path of titanosaurs, dodos and passenger pigeons.
“...that doesn’t mean we are making progress in general in terms of preservation of biodiversity. Extinctions are happening at an alarming rate. We are plunging headlong into the biggest extinction event in 65m years.”
Maybe it's time to consider the Half Earth proposition.
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