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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land. Loggers might get, let’s say, $400 dollars for stripping out a forest, where a community might make the equivalent of $2000 dollars a year through foraging, gathering and hunting (the particulars vary).

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

Four lions, rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI) from a Bolivian circus when the country banned the use of animals in circuses have a new home, and a life of luxury at the ARK 2000 sanctuary in Calaveras County. ADI gathered evidence has led to campaigns and legislative action all over the world to protect them.

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