Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

Killing 100

Killing Wildlife Groups Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. One may say so. Perhaps 15 minutes?

Elephants 184

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 184

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

Endangered Species 188

Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 188