Massacre of polar bears by trophy hunters on remote Arctic island

4 August 2017 (The Siberian Times) – The gruesome evidence of illegal hunting was found on uninhabited Vilkitsky Island in the Kara Sea. The carcasses and used gun cartridges were found by members of an ecological clean-up team sent to the remote territory. Summer thawing meant the polar bear remains became visible. There are claims […]

Leading elephant conservationist shot dead in Tanzania – “Wayne can be credited as the driving force behind ending the unscrupulous slaughter of Tanzania’s elephants”

By Sophie Tremblay 17 August 2017 (The Guardian) – The head of an animal conservation NGO who had received numerous death threats has been shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Tanzania. Wayne Lotter, 51, was shot on Wednesday evening in the Masaki district of the city of Dar es Salaam. The wildlife conservationist […]

UK ivory trade ‘ban’ just so much smoke and mirrors – ‘Elephants no longer have time for these kind of half-measures’

21 September 2016 (EIA) – UK Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom today announced plans for a ban on ‘modern day’ ivory sales, a move she claimed would put the country’s rules on ivory sales among the world’s toughest. But the proposal outlined by the Government does not go nearly far enough and is effectively only a […]

Climate change and humans are wiping out the grizzly bear in Yellowstone

 Yale Environment 360 currently has a piece which connects two subjects that TreeHugger has covered on a number of occasions, species getting de-listed as endangered species and climate change wiping out habitat. In this case it’s the grizzly bear and pine trees dying in and around Yellowstone National Park: Though the grizzly bear had been […]

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