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The slaughter of a white rhino named Heide from Thula Thula private game reserve brings the year’s total in KZN to 17. Just two days ago, another white rhino was killed at the Intaba Ingwe game ranch nearby. Efforts to keep Heide safe from poachers were simply not enough. According to The Witness, the young [...]
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from David Hone, Climate Change Adviser for Shell. I have been in Sao Paulo this week at Sustentavel 2009, perhaps the premiere Sustainable Development event in Brazil, if not all of South America. At the opening I represented the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and then on [...]
The Vulture Conservation Breeding Centre in Pinjore has reason to celebrate: The Centre’s first slender-billed nestling is now 140 days old and ready to fledge. With fewer than 1,000 slender-billed vultures left, this event marks a triumphant milestone in VCBC’s captive breeding program. And there’s more good news: A slender-billed nestling hatched at Rajabhatkhawa Centre [...]
The lower stretch of New Jersey’s Rahway River is under threat. There is increasing pressure to bisect the wetlands with yet another unnecessary road project – despite the fact that it is home to wildlife found no where else in the area. One of the residents of this marsh habitat is the Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys [...]
