Behind every ostrich- or reptile-skin handbag was an individual who endured a life of pain and misery and was forced to live in filth before being hacked to bits. PETA Marc Jacobs is the latest luxury brand to stop the use of exotic skins in …
The crocodile population in Australia’s Northern Territory has been reduced to 3,000 individuals after years of hunting them because the authorities decided that they were a problem 60 years ago. And then in 1971 they had to protect the then endangered crocodile and applied bans …
The Times today – Jan 16th 2024 – reports on the mauling of a nine-year-old boy by a crocodile while swimming in Australia’s Northern Territory. He is in critical condition but stable in the ICU at Royal Darwin Hospital. The attack occurred at Kakadu National …
NEWS AND COMMENT: You might have heard about the worst floods to hit northern Queensland. Some say it’s another symptom of global warming to which, I have to add, Australia contributes by excavating coal and selling it to China but that’s another story. The floods …
NEWS AND COMMENT- PALU CITY, CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA: An Indonesian bird catcher/seller has said: “I hate seeing animals trapped and suffering”. He was being praised and lauded by others because he had freed, with the help of others, a tyre from around the neck of …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is just a short note but the story is unusual and quite interesting and therefore worth sharing. It concerns a Rolls-Royce Phantom which was apparently being imported into Italy from Russia and which had been retrofitted with crocodile skin. Crocodile is …
