Taking The Lions Share
Bone: Any piece of hard, whitish material making up the skeleton of vertebrates. Ok, so we now know the definition of bone. Great. Now, let’s pick a vertebrate totally at random shall we?...
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The Rhino Horn Yo-yo
Like most of you, I don’t really keep up with international animal policy news and so missed some of the news from South Africa. After their momentous and controversial decision in December to...
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Selfish Selfies
Tiger selfies and lion walking are the hottest trends on social media. Exotic pet trade is at an all time high. People love wild animals, but this way of loving them does just...
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Elephant Poaching Levels Stabilise
The number of illegally killed elephants across Africa has finally stabilised. After years of rising poaching levels which have dropped the enigmatic species into a crisis, the number of individual elephants being killed...
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Is There Too Much Focus On The Great Apes?
Conservation is not always equal. If you go to a zoo you’ll find inescapable evidence of that, the megafauna are the main attractions; elephants, tigers and of course great apes are what you...
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Can a zebra change its stripes?
Some of you may have seen this story that is doing the rounds currently where a South African team of scientists claim to have bred a quagga, an extinct animal. The quagga was...
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Trade in Rhino Horn Legalised
South Africa has lifted the ban on trading rhino horn in a move that has divided conservationists. This now means it is legal to buy and sell rhino horns in South Africa. Advocates...
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Africa’s Lions Are In Trouble
As a Western romanticist we often think of the plains of Africa teeming with antelope and zebras gathering around the watering hole in some sort of Lion King-esque vision. And of course who...
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Top ten weirdest animals (Part 1)
This post was orignally intented somewhere else but it was turned down on account of it not being interesting. I disagree so I’m sharing it here to prove them wrong Animals, like humans,...
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Illegal fishing and China
I’ve written before about how wildlife crime is a big issue in China and recently it has become a major political issue. China happens to be very strict on illegal fishing in its...
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