Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law?

Meat 100

Meat illegal Trafficking Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

Elephants 186

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 186

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. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

Endangered Species 190

Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 190