Wednesday 22 February 2012
Environment and Wildlife news
- Nasa’s James Webb Telescope will let us look back tot he dawn of time
- Astronomers discover new type of planet – the water world
- Civilisation faces ‘perfect storm of ecological and social problems’
- A bill of rights for dolphins
- Baby rhino blinded by poachers is able to see again
- South Africa deploys hundreds of troops tackle rhino poachers
- Poachers slaughter 200 elephants in Cameroon national park in six weeks
- New telescopes will unravel mysteries of how planets form
- ‘Oldest living thing on earth’ discovered in Mediterranean Sea
- Uganda’s disappearing glaciers
- Why haven’t animals evolved defences against humans
- Australia’s Koala Bears under threat
- More mobiles than humans in 2012
- Crime chiefs agree to get tough on illegal tiger trade
- Bacteria used to fight sleeping sickness
- Now we can hear the sound of cells
- Tiny songbird traverses the world
- Cloaking device could make buildings ‘invisible’ to earthquakes
- Love gifts in the animal kingdom
- Lake Kivu gas: Turning an explosion risk into a power source
- Real-life science closes in on Star Trek
- Fish with ‘antifreeze for blood’ under threat
- Honeybees tell hornet predators to buzz off
- Bangkok: Shopper leads police to tiger butchers
- Donald Trump accuses Minister of wanting to destroy Scottish coast
- Lake Vostok: Russia scientists reach underground Antarctic lake
- Are dogs cleverer than chimps?
- Whales not slaves because they are not people
- Martian meteorite contains pockets of the red planet’s atmosphere
- SA’s Eskom to be investigated for fraud
- 70% of Europe’s power generation comes from renewables
- Mozambique: Flooding Increases Epidemic Risk
- Uganda: Charcoal Boon a Bust for Forests
- Tanzania: Salty Soils Drive Farmers Into Forest Reserve
- Mwanga lodge baby elephant dies
- ZCTF Report – January 2012
- Ghana’s cleaner production centre to serve west Africa
- SA losing rhino poaching fight
- Oldest dinosaur nest site found
- Solar storm’s effects to lash Earth until Wednesday
- Sumatran elephant upgraded to critically endangered status
- Mercury’s Harmful Reach Has Grown, Study Suggests
- Animals can’t keep up with climate change
- Babies with three parents possible within three years
- Rhino poaching trial to proceed in June
- ‘Extinct’ monkey rediscovered in Indonesia jungle
- Wildfires rage in Western Cape
- Time experts debate whether to abolish the leap second
- Stargazing viewer in planet coup
- Dark matter galaxy hints seen 10bn light-years away
- US joins EU effort to develop space ‘code of conduct’
- Oslo worried about shrinking whaler numbers
- Shangri-La hotels take shark fin soup off the menu
- David Attenborough urges business to protect nature from population boom
- Zim Conservation Taskforce newsletter
- Rhino bull killed near Mossel Bay
- River is winner in satellite image contest
- Kruger Park enlists 150 new rangers to protect rhinos
- SA to deliberate Moz fence re-erection to stop poaching
- Antarctic lake drilling mission edges closer
- Thousands of horses abandoned by UK owners last year
- Rhino lovers issue ultimatum ahead of poaching hearings
- Bubble-blowing stars seen in the thousands
- Bird flu empties South Africa’s ostrich farms
- Illegal South African rhino killings hit record high
- The Beyonce fly: Researchers name insect with golden behind after singer
- World’s smallest frog
- Rangers shoot poachers in Kruger Park
- Billions of habitable planets in Milky Way
- Call for ban on ivory trade after Cape Town shipment seized
- Do the right thing for the rhino
- Anthrax outbreak claims the lives of wild animals in Zim
- Brown Revolution Brings New Hope to Vic Falls
- Eight dehorned rhinos found dead in Kruger Park
- Wind and sunlight make Kenyan profits
- Can Hollywood’s top dogs really act
- The waste mountain engulfing Mexico City
- Obama holds strong to protect Grand Canyon from uranium mining
- Human carbon emissions ‘will put off’ a lethal Ice Age, say scientists
- Sea Shepherd supporters held on Japanese whaling vessel
- Nigeria’s oil disasters are met by silence
- Snowless winter a worry for US farmers
- Singapore supermarket taking shark fins off shelves
- Unique ‘moon mineral’ brought back by Apollo astronauts found in Australian rocks
- Bluefin tuna fetches record $736 000 in Japan
- Big bucks for SA game ranchers
- Ousted Spanish government plotted to derail EU fishing reforms
- Chinese airlines refuse to pay EU carbon tax
- World’s largest solar plant powers up
- China’s city dwellers to breathe unhealthy air ‘for another 20-30 years’
- Pale octopus, hairy-chested yeti crab and other new species found
- Nature’s weirdest events in numbers
- Elephant poaching: ‘Record year’ for ivory seizures
- Bleak future for Tripoli zoo animals?
- Success for Nasa’s twin moon satellites
- Campaigners use drones in the fight against Japanese whalers
- SA businessman pays R960 000 to hunt rhino
- Shell oil spill off Nigeria likely worst in a decade
- The great milk robbery: Food and Land
- Looking back on a major victory for whales
- Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong
- Shell shuts Nigerian oil platform after leak
- Japan uses tsunami victims’ cash to shield whalers from activists
- SA businessman helps crack rhino horn ring
- Animals Asia rescues 14 more bears
- Frankincense trees under threat
- Can we afford eco-cities?
- The impact of ecological limits on population growth
- Extreme weather baffles British butterflies
- Stray showers of mercury getting into food chain
- Nigeria’s cassava conundrum
- Imire Game Farm Xmas Message
- Japan PM declares ‘cold shutdown’ at Fukushima
- Facebook ‘unfriends’ coal and ‘likes’ clean power
- Dozens of beluga whales trapped among Bering Sea ice floes
- U.S. pushes for African solutions to climate change
- Eroding taboos see lemurs end up on dinner tables
- The whalers have won absolutely everything
- A dummy’s guide: Making sense of COP17
- Retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas
- How pedal power is helping Uganda’s mountain gorillas
- Sierra Leone eyes bird-watching money
- Durban: Winners and losers of climate change talks
- Canada pulls out of climate change protocol
- Higgs boson ‘may have been glimpsed’
- Defacing the world’s rarest tortoises, to save them
- UN climate talks end with late deal
- Durban deal on climate change isn’t enough, lament scientists
- Explorers daughter reaches south pole
- UN climate talks ‘approaching decision time’
- Living with China’s ‘crazy bad’ smog
- Masters of disguise: Camouflage experts
- Capturing the Wilkins ice shelf in full collapse
- Obama urges nations to follow lead of Wangari Maathai
- UN climate talks ‘lacking urgency’
- Maldives ‘Rubbish Island’ is ‘overwhelmed’ by garbage
- RIP – The Josiah Tongogara Msasa – c1885
- French Alpine glaciers in retreat
- Oceans’ deepest depth re-measured
- India dampens Europe’s hopes of a new climate change agreement
- future of the planet is at stake, warns UN chief
- New black holes ‘so big nobody believed them for 20 years’
One-year-old cubs at Xiongsen. The tigers are bred to produce tiger bone wine.
- Undercover at a Chinese tiger bone wine auction
- Is South Africa addicted to coal?
- NSPCA disappointed that state won’t prosecute hen torturers
- Japan whalers head for Antarctica
- Rhino poaching on the rise in SA
- Crunch time at COP17 as high-level negotiations begin
- Nasa’s Kepler space telescope finds ‘new Earth’
- Carbon dioxide emissions show record jump
- Climate research bolsters ‘action’ call to UN talks
- Harnessing desert sun to power Europe
- It’s the environment, stupid
- 23 rhinos killed in Zim this year
- At climate talks, an African approach to tackling deadlock
- Greenpeace activists arrested at COP17
- Climate change begins to take hold of Africa
- Climate talks proceeding well: Zuma
- Sasol puts Karoo shale gas plans on hold
- Grandparents ‘give humans evolutionary edge’
- Toads ‘could be used to predict earthquakes’
- Search for God Particle is nearly over
- On patrol with Zimbabwe’s wildlife defenders
- People out of touch with nature, warns Sir David Attenborough
- Wild birds in steep decline in Britain
- Should animals be stunned before slaughter?
- George Osborne slams ‘costly’ green policies
- Congo’s forests depend on Durban
- Climate summit sees warm words and warming world
- Horse riding through wildlife at Imire
Zapiro's take on The 17th Conference of the Parties
- White House is ‘one-stop wrecking machine’ for environmental protections
- SA stars fight for the rhino
- Greenpeace claims Zuma poorly represented Africa
- 2011 ‘caps decade tying record for heat’
- Kyoto protocol will ‘die on African soil’
- Shell signs £11bn deal to fuel Iraq’s power stations with gas
- Zuma opens Durban climate negotiations with plea to delegates
- Stop the wanton destruction of trees in Zim
- ‘Last-ditch’ UN climate talks kick off in Durban
- Climate change hits Africa’s poorest farmers
- Revolution needed to save our planet
- ‘Cure for cancer’ rumour killed off Vietnam’s rhinos
- Deferred deal may save COP17
- Wangari Maathai’s legacy branches out in Kenya
- Most liveable alien worlds ranked
- Under siege: Climate scientists defend work ahead of COP17
- Polar bear web broadcasts from the Canadian wilderness
- Elephant and bee researcher nets green
- Rescued killer whale bound for amusement park following legal tussle
- Fresh round of hacked climate science emails leaked online
- New coal mines pose threat to India’s 1,400 remaining tigers
- Rise in autism ‘may be linked to clever parents’
- Seals use incredible navigation skills
- Rich nations ‘give up’ on new climate treaty until 2020
- Fukushima rice banned by Japan
- Stop animal cruelty: support a fur-free South Africa
- Satellites show future of eco-endeavors
- China air pollution: ‘Slightly polluted’ or ‘hazardous’?
- UN warns of cassava crop virus ‘epidemic’
Rwanda to import lions, rhinos from South Africa
- Rwanda to import lions, rhinos from South Africa
- Solar heater companies in W.Cape are closing
- Azerbaijan fights to protect national horse from extinction
- Hong Kong customs nab R18m in rhino horn, ivory
- Apple opens China environment talks
- Mongolia bids to keep city cool with ‘ice shield’ experiment
- Turning Rwanda’s rivers into renewable energy
- DR Congo’s Nyamulagira volcano’s spectacular eruption
- Crane lift for eel as ‘love congers all’
- Eskom signs R1.9-billion green energy loan
- World headed for irreversible climate change
- World tries to save bluefin tuna
- SA wetlands threatened
- Where do you fit into the 7 Billion in the world?
- Shell must pay US$1 billion in first step to clean up Niger Delta
- Zulus urged to change spots to save leopards
- On patrol with Bangkok’s pet rescuers
- Western black rhino declared extinct
- SA farmer in dock with Thai rhino poaching suspects
- Arctic sea ice ‘to melt by 2015′ –
- Two rhinos shot dead near Hectorspruit
- SA rhino poaching rouses fury –
- Fast-growing populations leading Africa to disaster
- Tuna fished ‘illegally’ during Libya conflict
- Greenhouse gases rise by record amount FOR
- Greenpeace stages protest at SA coal power station
- SA arrests Greenpeace activists
- Suspected poaching syndicate leader detained in Joburg
- Giant crack found in Antarctic ice sheet
- Dramatic Luangwa elephant rescue
- Signs of ageing halted in the lab
- SA rhino poaching at record high
- Lack of water threatens poor
- DNA gene find ‘transforms’ theories on how brain works
- Lesotho: China funds $15 billion green energy project
- Kenya: The Commodification of the Environment
- Six natural resources most drained by our 7 billion people
- Chiredzi River Conservancy Facebook page
- Faster-than-light neutrino experiment to be run again
- Facebook builds ‘green’ datacentre in Sweden
- Eskom gets World Bank loan for wind, solar power
- October newsletter: Zim vets for animal welfare
- Which rhinos do we have left, and how many?
- Joburg: Thai rhino horn suspect seeks bail -
- Artificial blood could be used within next decade
- White rhinos poached in the Free State
A herd of 70 elephants is under threat in Zimbabwe’s Chiredzi River Conservancy (CRC) which is located in the south eastern lowveld close to Gona re Zhou National Park. See 'Save Zimbabwe's endangered elephant herd' and sign petition (click on the image above).
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- ZANU PF’s poaching syndicates -
- Burkino Faso: “The man who stopped the desert”
- Global warming ‘confirmed’ by independent study
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- East Africa drought ‘remains huge crisis’
- Acid threat will leave Gauteng a wasteland
- ‘Whale war’ kicks off as Japan sends fleet to Antarctica
- Taiwan shark slaughter exposed
- Russians consider moon bases
- Zim: Healing hooves help African soil
- Richard Branson christens Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space
- Trafficking of baby gorillas poses new threat
- Please help Chiredzi elephants – just vote
- Wildlife: A Zim national asset under threat
- A Disappearing Underwater World -
- What should be the top environmental priority
- Rhino survives after being shot 11 times
- SA: Conservation funding gap revealed
- Are Gibson guitars killing the rainforest?
- Japanese scientist unveils ‘thinking’ robot brain -
- End of the Line fishing film nets documentary prize
- BP to risk worst ever oil spill in Shetlands drilling
- Billions of euros subsidise overfishing
- Virgin Atlantic unveils plan to use ‘green’ fuel
- Mana Pools – what’s going on?
- Mana Pools faces threat
- Elephant-poo power electrifies zoo
- Conservationists warn of wildlife ‘tragedy’ New Zealand
- Air pollution from traffic impairs brain –
China population to become world's biggest polluters
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- Outrage as Japan raises whale hunt budget 54%
- Kruger’s oldest elephant dies
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- ‘Cloning’ used to create embryonic stem cells in humans
- Zim Game Conservation Woes
- Elephant crisis situation in Zimbabwe escalates
- Trial tests whether ‘ecocide’ could join genocide as global crime
- Endangered dolphins near extinction
- Vietnam: Rhino info sharing vital
- China population to become world’s biggest polluters
- SA’s new plane to combat poaching
- Bolivian president suspends Amazon road project
- ‘Invaders must leave Chiredzi conservancy’
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