10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said the figures showed a 21% increase in poaching from 2013, topping that year’s total by 195. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide.

Rhinos 172

Rhinos South Africa Rhinoceros White Rhinos 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

Elephants 180

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

India, February 2013. According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. It is February and evenings are cold. Against snakes,” he said.

Tigers 231

Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Maharashtra, February 2013. Trying not to inhale so much of the dust cloud that envelops us, I am sporting a bandana tied bank-robber style. A winding track through dense woodlands takes us to the Telia Lake in the southeast of the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra.

Tigers 238

Tigers India Killing 2012 238

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

There are no bird illustrations in Urban Ornithology, other than Arthur Morris’s Least Bittern on the cover, but there are maps and figures in the first two chapters, and scatterplots for 43 species, illustrating Bronx/Westchester CBC data from 1924 to 2013, in the Species Accounts. It’s a very mixed chapter.

New York City 146

New York City New York Birds Breeding 146