A Michael Broad Blog
This is an instance were conservationists can inadvertently achieve the exact opposite to their goal. It is an example where weaknesses in technology allow traders in wildlife and body parts to get the better of conservation organisations. And technology is becoming more and more useful and used in conservation of wildlife making the problem …
Zoo administrators try and justify their existence, in part, by saying that they do valuable conservation work. This is highly misleading. The Times newspaper states that only 3% of zoo expenditure goes on conservation and only 10% of the animals held in British zoos are endangered species. Research by the Born Free Foundation found …
An RSPCA report states that in order for the domestic cat population to be stable (i.e. neither increasing or decreasing) the domestic cat neutering rate needs to be 92%. This means that 92% of domestic cats need to be neutered at any one time. Sadly, as at 2012, neutering rates in the UK of …
The authorities on Christmas Island, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean with a population of about 2,000 people, are planning to use drones to drop poison bait to kill the feral cats on the island. The island is an Australian external territory. It is around 8 miles long on its longest length and …
David Gill is the founder of South Lakes Zoo in Dalton, Cumbria, UK. He’s alleged to have instructed his veterinarian to kill a Sumatran tiger out of vengeance because the tiger had killed one of his zookeepers, 24-year-old Sarah McClay, who had entered a cage with the tiger. She was mauled and suffered deep …
