Red Alert: Art Exhibition
Title: RED ALERT ART EXHIBITION Location: ILLALA WEAVERS, HLUHLUWE, KZN Description: RED ALERT ART EXHIBITION FEATURING ENDANGERED SOUTH AFRICAN FAUNA AND FLORA OPENING: 15 July 2011 PLACE: ILLALA WEAVERS, HLUHLUWE, KZN TIME; 6.30 pm Tickets: R75 per person- available from Fig tree Restaurant, Hluhluwe Pharmacy, Build-it, Hluhluwe Tourism office (alongside the Engen Garage). Finger supper, [...]
Increased protection urgently needed for tunas
| International news release For the first time, all species of scombrids (tunas, bonitos, mackerels and Spanish mackerels) and billfishes (swordfish and marlins) have been assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Of the 61 known species, seven are classified in a threatened category, being at serious risk of extinction. Four species are [...]
Frack off Shell!
This has been in the news quite a bit lately, and until recently I thought fracking was a slang word for, well….you can use your imagination there. In this poster from Treasure the Karoo Action Group we can get a quick overview: w w w . t r e a s u r e t [...]
International Crime Top 7
Crime these days is big money, and when it comes to conserving our natural heritage globally, we are up against some big players. According to Global Financial Integrity, the Top 7 Rankings for international crime are as follows: 1. Drugs US$ 320 billion 2. Counterfeiting US$ 250 billion 3. Human trafficking US$ 31.6 billion 4. [...]
The 25 most endangered turtles and tortoises
They have thrived for 220 million years, and have survived countless predators, but sadly they are no match to their worst enemy yet: Mankind. Annually millions of turtles are imported into China alone from all over Asia, North America and Africa. Most of China’s indigenous turtles are already extinct in the wild. While large scale [...]
Sexy Forests
As 2011 is the International Year of Forests, organisations such as the IUCN have decided to sex up their campaign to gain awareness. While competing with seemingly daily calamities such as public uprisings, regime change, and the latest disasters to hit Japan, it is undeniable that bad news sells. Trying to promote success stories are [...]
Endangered Mammals of Africa
Endangered species: African Dictators. Is this the time for democracy to finally reach all the way into Africa, spreading from the northern African lands of Arab regimes and dictators? Isnt Might Is Right the only way to keep stability for cultures still clinging to primitive tribal systems and customs so at odds with the 21st [...]
The Year of the Forest
Forests 2011 will see an international effort to emphasize the importance of our forests, and their life giving qualities. Essential to attaining far reaching goals such as reducing poverty, aiding in curbing climate change, and finding the balance to sustainable development. “The air we breathe, the food, water and medicines we need to survive, the [...]
Conservation: The Big Plan
Entering a new decade, we leave behind the failed targets for reducing the loss of biodiversity by 2010. A new plan, adopted in Nagoya by governments meeting at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in October 2010, consists of 20 targets to tackle the extinction crises by 2020. Speaking [...]
Our Fragile Planet
Here is an article that appeared in the latest KZN Wildlife Rhino Club Newsletter that is worth reading, it certainly is thought provoking and should be foremost in our minds. Not all is doom and gloom though, and their newsletters are action packed with positive impacts along with the negative, so why not apply for [...]
