Archive for the ‘Biodiversity’ Category

• Two polar bears are killed on Iceland just weeks after USA lists them as a “threatened” species

  Iceland has killed two polar bears since the U.S. Department of Interior formally listed the polar bear as a “threatened” species a few weeks ago. The first polar bear, named Björn Björnesson, came to Iceland in the beginning of June …

• The Caribbean monk seal is now extinct due to human causes

  Photo from “The Fisheries and Fisheries Industries of the United States”, by George Brown Goode (1887). The Caribbean monk seal has gone “the way of the dodo” and been officially listed as extinct by the US Government. The Caribbean monk …

• Why did they use DDT?

  During a nighttime robbery, the horn of a 120-year-old stuffed rhinoceros was stolen, from the museum where it was displayed. Museum authorities warned that using this horn as a traditional medicine on the Asian black market could have lethal consequences …

• Victory for “threatened” polar bears

  Today the U.S. Department of Interior formally listed the polar bear as a “threatened” species. Environmental organisations have called for the polar bears to be listed on the “endangered” species list hoping it could lead to actions to combat climate …

• The never solved, never forgotten issue…

  It is a fact that more than 1000 whales and dolphins are killed every year by whalehunters, who make some endangered species head torwards extinction. Mainly Japan, with support from Norway and Iceland, refuses to obey the rules of the …

• Japan whalers brutally slaughter a whale mother and her calf

  Since Greenpeace left the Antarctic, due to low fuel, the Japanese whalers began their slaughter of whales. Australia who is strongly condemning the whale slaughter is still following the Japanese whalers. And yesterday they could release images and videos of …

• Panda pioneers teach babies how to survive in the wild

  China has a dream that the giant pandas it breeds in captivity will one day frolic in the mountains with their wild cousins. This is the next challenge for the scientists who manage the country’s biggest reserve for captive pandas. …