Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for free to the world’. You can see the first one highlighting the red panda here, and be sure to visit his [...]
Here is the second in a series I hope never ends – if only due to survival of the species. The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. In his own words he is ‘going guerilla on environmental graphics, so making them for [...]
The talented infographic artist Guillermo Munro is creating these posters to raise awareness on animals the most affected by human development and ignorance. A dedicated environmental artist, I had the pleasure of working with Guillermo for several years in the UAE. He is now based in Beijing and I am in Paris but yet, the [...]
The aquarium team at the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai have successfully bred zebra sharks from a female shark but amazingly, without a male. All the details are in the article published in the Journal of Fish Biology but overall this means that the captive female produced 15 pups from eggs laid within the aquarium [...]
For a dry, desert, arid country a lot of water gets collected in the UAE’s dams every year during the seasonal rains. The amount of rainfall has been increasing steadily according to people who monitor it at the Ministry of Environment and Water. The central, mountainous region gets the most rain and therefore the most [...]
A five week old lion cub rescued from a Beirut balcony by Animals Lebanon will be sent to a South African sanctuary. Finally some good news! Often animals in such situations are ignored, especially in the Middle East because animal welfare laws are either non existant or just not applied. Animals Lebanon was founded in 2008 and works to protect [...]
There is a lot of data out there regarding waste, pollution and the amount of plastic and debris that enters our oceans. The numbers get bigger and bigger and the problem seems to get worse. Which is why I like a good infographic. It makes it all a lot easier to digest, and hopefully react. [...]
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey, says there’s no such thing as trash, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started [...]
