The war on elephants

The war on elephants How the very existence of Africa’s elephants is threatened by poachers, traffickers and Asia’s appetite for ivory By Alastair Leithead, BBC News Magazine, April 28, 2016 Every year in Africa between 30,000 and 40,000 elephants are poached for their ivory, and it’s thought there are only 400,000 left. Even accounting for […]

Help Save Yellowstone’s Bears

Dear friends-  As you probably know, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to strip Yellowstone’s grizzly bears of protection under the Endangered Species Act, and open the population up to hunting. The FWS states, astonishingly, that climate change does not constitute a threat now, or in the future, to grizzly bears. I would […]