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Crime Doesn’t Pay: Wildlife Hotline Targets Bear Bile
A Wildlife Crime Hotline run by Vietnamese member society Education for Nature (ENV) is getting real results for bears. Tapping into public determination to stop the bear bile trade, tip offs have led to bears being removed from bear farms.
Radio, television and print advertising for the WSPA-funded hotline are clear: the bear bile trade is based on extreme cruelty and buying or selling products made from bears is illegal.
Pain experts say greater focus on high-tech non-animal research could help thousands of patients
Science’s understanding of human pain remains simplistic, with no safe and effective analgesia for chronic pain despite decades of animal experiments, according to an article published in international peer-reviewed journal Neuroimage, collaboratively authored by leading pain experts and the Dr Hadwen Trust.
Animal Hero of the Year
In 1989, Amanda Lollar found an injured bat and saved it from a painful death. Soon after she founded what is now the world’s largest bat rescue group, Bat World Sanctuary (BWS).
Bat World Sanctuary saves thousands of bats around the world each year and provides refuge for bats retired from zoos, permanently injured, used in [...]
Gray Wolves Back in Yellowstone
The reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone has become a rare success story in the battle to save endangered species in the United States.
In the early 20th century, the gray wolf was often hunted by settlers in the western United States who said the predators were killing off their livestock. By the 1970s there were [...]
Prince’s Rainforest Project
“Today I am launching the website for my Rainforests Project. On it are three films, together with the findings of some new research. The films, which The Daily Telegraph is hosting on its website today make use of compelling images from the world’s rainforests, as well as animation, to describe some of the stark facts [...]
For Patagonia
There’s only eight days left in May and we still need to raise $9,000 in order to reach our goal of raising $20K in May for Patagonia. We not only want to see Patagonia’s ecosystem survive encroachments from enterprises like bottom trawling and salmon farming but also thrive from the creation of Marine Protected Areas [...]
Rambutans for Orangutans Appeal
The rainforest is a place of indescribable beauty, an ever-changing topography of birth, death and regeneration. Such a place and the inhabitants who reside there, both animal and human, need our help and support to hold onto what forest remains and to pull back from the brink what forest has been lost….
Lone Droscher-Nielsen, founder and [...]