The Animal Improvement Act of South Africa has been changed to include lions and cheetahs and other wild animals as farm animals. The request came from breeders through their associations. There’s been an immediate backlash from all sides including, surprisingly … Continue reading →
This young black panther (probably a black jaguar) is having a hard time living in the human environment. Firstly, and we don’t know how, she ended up as a pet in somebody’s home in northen France and then escaped onto … Continue reading →
This passionate and at times emotional speech by Greta Thunberg is amazing. She is lecturing the world’s leaders. She is actually telling them what to do and trying to make them listen and she is spot on accurate in her … Continue reading →
There is talk about the reintroduction of the beautiful wildcat, which was once native to England, to the Derwent valley at a particular place, appropriately called Cattiside. This is said to be the last-known Derbyshire location of native wildcats centuries … Continue reading →
The Trump administration has declared its credentials in allowing, through the US Federal Fish and Wildlife Service, the importation of the skin, skull and horns of a rare black rhino that an American trophy hunter shot at a cost of … Continue reading →
There are a couple of reports out today in online newspapers about Australia taking six years to list threatened habitats under their environment laws. The reports point to the fact that the Australian authorities, specifically those people charged with protecting … Continue reading →
There is a report in the LA Times that the mountain lions of Southern California are approaching what they describe as an “extinction vortex”. As I understand it, this means that when the population numbers have decreased to a certain … Continue reading →
There is an article on The Spectator website by Mary Wakefield which, perhaps somewhat tongue in cheek, argues why vegans must not own cats. My initial response was that she is wrong. Why shouldn’t vegans own cats? Lots of them … Continue reading →
With humans out of the way, Chernobyl’s wildlife thrives like never before. When reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on April 26, 1986, many people, thousands of trees and most of the animals in the area … Continue reading →
It is believed that caracals are eating rats which populate the vineyards of Cape Town. The vineyards don’t use rat poison but they host businesses such as hotels and restaurants which do use it.
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