Urban solar farms are now being explored in South Africa under a grant awarded by the US Trade and Development Agency. The grant has been has awarded to SolarReserve South Africa … [Read full article]
Category: Animal Cruelty
Tiger Farms Should Be Closed
The International Day of the Tiger is July 29, but there are still thousands of tigers living in captivity. The World Wildlife Fund has estimated there are about 8,000 living … [Read full article]
3D Rhino Horns – Conservation or Exploitation?
If waves of cheap rhino horns 3D-printed with real rhino DNA are flooded onto the Asian markets, is this a form of rhino conservation or capitalistic exploitation? This critical question … [Read full article]
Experimental Animal Research Has Surged In The US Over Recent Years, Research Finds
The use of animals in experimental research in the US has surged over recent years, according to a new analysis based on previously unpublished data collected by the US National … [Read full article]
Shark Poaching Boat Sunk By Indonesian Government
A large Vietnamese ship containing two tons of drying shark fins or more was sunk by the Indonesian government. The ship had been illegally collecting a tremendous number of sharks … [Read full article]
Super-Rare Half-Female, Half-Male Butterly Found By Scientists… Subsequently Killed, Preserved, & Put On Display
If you were to find an incredibly rare and quite striking looking butterfly, what would be your first reaction? What would you do? Appreciate the experience perhaps? Wonder about the … [Read full article]
28,000+ Endangered Lemurs Illegally Trafficked As Pets In Madagascar — Survival Of Multiple Species Threatened
More than 28,000 endangered lemurs (across a variety of different species) are currently illegally kept as pets in the only country that they exist in, Madagascar, according to a recent … [Read full article]
Legal Challenge to Idaho’s Wildlife Killing Contest
Originally Published on the ECOreport Legal Challenge to Idaho’s Wildlife-killing Contest is a podcast with Amy Atwood, Endangered Species Legal Director, Senior Attorney, The Center of Biological Diversity. The Bureau of … [Read full article]
Happy World Animal Day? WWF Extinction Report
Today’s World Animal Day, celebrated across the globe since a 1931 convention of ecologists in Florence, Italy, conceived of it as a way to highlight the plight of endangered species. They … [Read full article]
New Lawsuits Seek to Grant Chimps And Highly Self-Aware Animals ‘Legal Persons’ Status
[UPDATED: Jan. 14, 2015; see UPDATE NOTE below] On Monday morning, December 2, an animal rights group called the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a lawsuit in the Supreme court … [Read full article]
Al Gore Goes Vegan (Enjoying A Cruelty-Free Thanksgiving Right Now)
Al Gore has finally put his money where his mouth is… or put his mouth where his money is. He has apparently gone vegan. He has done so rather discreetly, … [Read full article]
100,000 Bears Killed In Eastern US States
The following analysis breaks down multiple bear death totals. Over 100,000 bears, – 100,103 to be exact – have been killed in annual hunts in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, … [Read full article]
Eggless Mayonnaise Tastes Better than Hellmann’s
Do you like mayonnaise? Hellmann’s and Best Foods have been making it for decades and also dominating the mayo market. The original Hellmann’s came from Richard Hellmann’s wife’s recipe in … [Read full article]