China has announced a historic ban on all ivory trade and processing activities by the end of 2017, a move that follows a resolution at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in South Africa in October 2016. China has the biggest ivory market in the world as the ivory trade could surpass £850…
Two adult cows and a calf were stranded on Kaikoura, North East of Christchurch, a tiny island of grass after 14th November 2016, Monday’s earthquake of 7.5-magnitude in New Zealand are now safe after they had a terrible ordeal. The cows balanced themselves while the land beneath them was disappearing down the hill. The cows…
Aeromexico passengers were given a shock of their life when a serpent slithered into the cabin emerging from the ceiling behind an overhead luggage compartment. The 3 feet long green reptile stowaway on the Embraer E190 aircraft, commercial Aeromexico flight 231 from Torreon in the country’s north to Mexico City was videoed as it squirming…
One of the deadliest snakes in the world, Green mamba has been found on a cargo ship arrived from Africa, docked in Aberdeen on 9th November 2016. The extremely venomous reptile’s bite can kill a human in less than thirty minutes without anti-venom held in London almost 400 miles away from Aberdeen. The crew of…
American field biologist and photo journalist Tim Laman’s Orangutan ape pictured climbing into a tree to reach for figs has won the 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the year (WPY) competition. He captured the scene using a remote camera placed in the rainforest canopy of Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesian Borneo. His fearless bravery effort…
A 29-stone, 7ft, Male Gorilla Kumbuka, the western lowland silverback’s escape from its enclosure at London Zoo, did not endanger the public, but it could have ended very differently according to the Born Free Foundation. The foundation wants to see zoos phased out- has called the Zoo Expert Committee, the government’s advisory body, to…
WLT announces Big Match Fortnight appeal 31 August, 2016 – 16:34 — World Land Trust Elephant project in South India – Big Match Fortnight appeal – Worldland Trust This year’s Big Match Fortnight will be raising funds to protect a wildlife corridor between two tiger reserves in southern India to enable the safe passage of…
Today is the World Elephant Day, as Elephant numbers have dropped by 62 per cent over the last decade, according to the World Elephant Day website, an estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers, and several Asian elephants are also in trouble. There are fewer than 40,000 Asian elephants left in the…
A wild elephant calf, rescued from the Kakkeri forest of the Tholpetty forest range of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary on 13th June 2016 morning, The one and half months old male calf, was rescued by Forest Department officials after it accidently fell into a trench near the Kakkeri tribal colony near Kattikulam. “Although the forest…