China decided to gift to Qatar a couple of giant pandas from the Sichuan province, the home of giant pandas. The gift is designed to mark the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 which is being held from November 20 to December 18. The Chinese ambassador …
There is a battle going on between Project Coyote advocates and the red T-shirt wearing members of Evict Coyotes. They represent two sides of the coin on how to deal with the resourceful Los Angeles County coyote who has been there 47,000 years but is …
It looks like climate change is bearing down on the survivability of wildlife on the African continent to the point where it has become extremely serious. The Savé Valley Conservancy covers 1,330 mi². It was established in 1991 because drought in that area made farming …
Nigeria is too poor to keep the Osun River pure. Nigeria’s Osun River has, for many years, attracted people from far away as America to drink its pure waters. Beyoncé used the river as inspiration for her 2016 album Lemonade. She became Osun, the Yoruba …
NEWS AND COMMENT-TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA: There is a 15-mile stretch of road in Tasmania on which 160 endangered Tasmanian devils have been killed within the past 18 months (unnamed road). Animal advocates are in despair as our conservationists. And the Tasmanian devil needs all the conservation …
China has owned up and declared that two gibbon species living in China are extinct in the wild: the Yunnan lar (white-handed gibbon) and the northern white-cheeked gibbon. The Times reports that their calls were last heard more than a decade ago and the last …
It seems that if you want to carry out a successful conservation programme to protect elephants on the African continent you’ve got to commit to and declare war on poachers. It also seems to me that no other country in Africa has committed to eradicating …
There is a photograph of a wildlife crossing in Wierden, Netherlands, which dresses up the home page of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. I noticed how beautiful it looked. This one seems to traverse a standard country road by which I mean not a dual carriageway. …
Three European bison were relocated into a nature reserve near Canterbury, England, UK last month. The project is called Wilder Blean in reference to the addition of bison to West Blean and Thornden Woods to act as natural engineers. The project welcomes publicity and they’ve …
