Just Saving and Saving and Saving
Gently Marlice van
Vuuren started tending to the dreadful wounds and injuries inflicted for
several months on a wild baboon female (estimated to be between 5 and 6 years
old) – a baboon who had endured the most appalling treatment – a baboon who
could not protect herself or fight back – a baboon who had suffered at the hands
of humans, let down by humanity whose responsibility it is to safeguard and
defend those who cannot defend themselves!
We called her Hope.
Painted dogs.
Three male pups, aged between two and three
weeks, had been removed from a den, their pack having come into conflict on
communal farmland. Having been kept tied to chains, the situation demanded
immediate attention, and the researchers rushed to the location.
This tiny band of brothers, now motherless
and alone, were immediately brought back to the
N/a’an ku sê sanctuary and Marlice van
Vuuren’s experienced and dedicated touch.
Their health being constantly monitored,
with a watchful eye and regular weigh-ins ensuring their peak condition, the
pups are faring well, with giant appetites belying their diminutive size.
Check out the full N/a’anku sê Facebook page. It is an
awesome place. If you’re thinking of
doing some volunteer conservation work in Africa, this is a place to consider.
Chillin' Out
Bears need to cool off and Tahoe in August is a perfect place.No More Helicopter Hunting (in Alaska)
It’s about time that national wildlife refuges became, you know, refuges for wildlife.
Alaska has long
allowed authorities and hunters to kill bears and wolves on national wildlife
refuges as part of what it called an “intensive predator management” program.
Approved methods included shooting wolves and their pups in dens, using bait to
hunt bears, killing mother bears with their cubs – and one made famous by
former Alaska governor Sarah Palin: gunning down wildlife from helicopters.
That’s now about to
change. In defiance of several Alaska officials, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service approved regulations that ban nearly all predator hunting on national
wildlife refuges that is not approved by the federal government and “based on
sound science and in response to a conservation concern.” The new regs
specifically prohibit hunting bear cubs as well as bear hunting using traps,
snares or helicopters, among other methods.
Volunteer Closer to Home
The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center has a help wanted sign out.
My first and most important job at CWWC was
that of “wolf walker.” When I met Wakanda
for the first time, he jumped up on me and licked my face, it was love at
first site. This began our journey together.
I always looked forward to my time at the
center with him. When I would arrive he would be waiting for me at the bottom
of his enclosure ready for our next adventure but not before I received the
infamous wet, sloppy wolf kisses. Wakanda and I would walk in snow (the deeper
the better for him) and rain and everything in between.
The Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center is one
of very few sanctuaries in the United States which has been certified by the
Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
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