By Emma Rae Lierley The Leuser Ecosystem on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia thrums with life. It is an ancient, 6.5 million acres of lush rainforest and steamy peat swamps, and because of its rich biodiversity, is one of the most important rainforests still standing today. Its clear rivers provide drinking water for millions […]
Check out this video from Great Big Story to see how scientists are solving crimes against animals. Wildlife, including endangered species, are killed illegally, smuggled and sold for billions of dollars each year. Founded by a crime scene investigator, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, uses state-of-the-art technology (as […]
By John R. Platt Tiger Shark Terror. Great White Shark Serial Killer Lives. Great Hammerhead Invasion. Australia’s Deadliest Shark Attacks. These are just a few of the programs airing this week during Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week and NatGeo Wild’s copycat, Sharkfest. Undoubtedly, these programs will attract their usual massive ratings, but they may be […]
It’s a good year to be a Clemson Tigers football fan, but a bleak time to be an actual tiger in the wild. A loss of habitat and population has pushed tigers to the brink of extinction. Clemson, and three other universities with tiger mascots—including Auburn, Louisiana State University and the University of Missouri—are teaming […]
By Rebecca Bowe A small yet vocal group of congressmen are gearing up this summer to dismantle the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Campaign finance records of these lawmakers reveal that they have all taken significant money from extractive industries frustrated by the law’s protection of critical habitat for endangered species. The ESA has proven to […]
A federal court on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the approval of fracking in federal waters off California. The suit—filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Wishtoyo Foundation—notes that the government violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act by failing to carefully study offshore fracking’s […]
The world’s last remaining tigers are living under severe threat of extinction, having lost 93 percent of their historical range and suffered a population crash of 95 percent during the past century. The major threat to their continued existence on Earth is poaching to meet the high demand in Asia for their parts and derivatives. […]
Dedicated whale rescuer Joe Howlett was struck and killed Monday by a North Atlantic right whale that he helped free. The critically endangered whale was entangled in commercial fishing gear off of New Brunswick, Canada. Howlett, a 59-year-old Canadian fisherman, was a co-founder of the Campobello Whale Rescue team and was on a Department of […]
Less than two weeks after publishing the graphic images of poached sea turtles on the French island of Mayotte, Sea Shepherd‘s conservation team interrupted another slaughter on the night of July 7, and this time—as captured on video footage shown above—it turned violent. When the volunteers arrived at the beach known as Moya 1, one […]
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