Critter News
OCTOBER 2, 2009
So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed. Some wildlife experts have attributed the increase in elephant poaching to the presence of Chinese workers in Africa. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa Kenya china asia elephants traf.
Critter News
DECEMBER 29, 2008
Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savannah elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, have crashed to just 1,000 animals from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Several park guards have been shot and killed in recent years. Tags: ivory chad africa poaching elephants.
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Critter News
MARCH 2, 2009
Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa zambia trafficking elephants. 36 elephants? That's a huge slaughter in my opinion.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 6, 2009
Over 150 rangers have been killed on duty in this park in the past decade. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. Many worked for years without receiving a salary. And did you know. Rangers are able to identify individual gorillas because each animal's nose is uniquely patterned.
Critter News
AUGUST 4, 2009
The dramatic film shows seals being killed by hunters during a hunt at the Cape Cross Reserve in Namibia and hunters armed with clubs running towards film maker Bart Smithers and Jim Wickens, from the UK's Ecostorm agency. Tags: animal cruelty africa seal hunters seals namibia hunting.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. Here’s the kicker though.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 28, 2008
He says: "We've not had reports of any gorilla killings. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas. Over the next month he and his staff will conduct a census of the mountain gorillas, hoping to find the population of roughly 200 unaffected by the tempest that has raged around them in the past 18 months.
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