Critter News

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

(Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products. Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. From Alternet.org.

Endangered Species 100

Endangered Species Trafficking Species United States 100

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. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. One may say so.

Elephants 184

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 184

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. Despite birding in shattered forests with the constant background whine of chainsaws, the birding is phenomenal, with an incredible diversity and volume of rare and endangered species. Ghana’s people are just as friendly as before.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191