All Blog Posts Tagged 'conservation' (11)

As travelers on a quest for new experiences, we are constantly attracted to the unique and adventurous. We crave for a different experience, look to pushing boundaries and find the need to live our lives to the fullest. Because why shouldn’t we? But our travels should be responsible and our actions should always be ethical. 

While there is nothing wrong with trying to live the best lives that we can, sometimes in doing that, whether consciously or unconsciously, we cause harm…

A newspaper story about the impact of the ivory trade has gone viral in China, raising awareness among millions of Chinese, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). 

The story, published November 15 in Southern Weekly, has been shared widely across Chinese web sites and social media, according to the conservation group. …

“Poachers have almost entirely wiped out the tiger populations in places like Vietnam and Cambodia ” says Shariff Mohamed, the senior programme officer (Species Conservation Team) at WWF-Malaysia. “It is only a matter of time before they turn their eyes to Malaysia.” Shariff & Aslan Mohamed are part of WWF-Malaysia’s tiger monitoring team and they have been carrying out camera trapping to determine the population status in tigers in…

We are offering a R5 000.00 reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone found to be shooting or in any way intentionally harming seals in South Africa.

For more information refer to The Seals of…

In December of 2010, Jemaal Peter Roy Large of Wairu Valley is alleged to have beaten 23 seals to death with a galvanised steel pipe.

The dead include 2 bulls, 13 females and 8 pups; some of which were only a few days old. According to the Dept. of Conservation, other live seals also had injuries suggesting that they too had been struck.

These seals were knowingly and willfully beaten to death while they lay sleeping on the beach at night. This blatant, cowardly act of cruelty…

Picture a fox, with its bloody leg mangled in the jaws of a steel jawed trap, tearing ligaments, pulling muscles as it thrashes around in abject terror in a vain attempt to get free.

Picture the fox breaking teeth, lacerating gums as it bites the cold steel that holds it prisoner. Imagine how it must feel for 1 in 3 foxes who will chew their own legs off as a desperate bid to escape, only to die a sad and painful death as a result of infection, blood loss,…

Many of you are die-hard vegans. You saw ‘Meet Your Meat,’ ‘Earthlings‘ or you were fortunate enough to have animal-loving parents. My journey to veganism was more of an indirect route. It was something that Captain Paul Watson said during an episode of Whale Wars that prompted me to give up seafood. I became a big fan of…

Transcript of Ric O’Barry’s ARZone Guest Chat

5 February 2011

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Transcript of Captain Pete Bethune’s ARZone Guest Chat

31 July 2010 

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