Today we heard about the death of the last male Northern White Rhino in “captivity”. Sudan reached the age of 45, but lived in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya conservancy where he was being treated for age-related complications and guarded against horn poachers by caretakers. It is unkn...
The elephants are all rescues, found after their mothers had died, sometimes of natural causes but mostly at the hands of poachers who sell tusks for ivory to wealthy Asian buyers. The orphaned calves are captured and transported to the Trust, where they are watched around the clock. It may...
Firstly, it seems unlikely that poachers are to blame, since the tusks of the dead elephants have not been removed. It’s estimated that illegal black-market ivory trade is responsible for the deaths of 20,000 elephants annually. The elephants could have been...
Because of this, elephants go into villages and eat the crops. Poor farmers kill them to protect their land. As a result, the Cambodian elephant population has fallen from 2,000 in 1995 to fewer than 500 today. Tuy Sereivathana (known as Vathana), from Cambodia, is working to save As...
but they also find some bizarre ways to crash when they finally get around to taking a nap. Walruses can sleep at the bottom of an ocean floor or while bobbing on top of the water's surface. These animals have even been observed sleeping while using their tusks to hang from a block ...
The poaching of animals for their horns, tusks, bones (as is the case with lions) or hides poses one of the most significant threats to the survival of many species in Africa including rhino, elephant, lion, leopard and cheetah and anti-poaching initiatives are the focus of many conservation...
@Mor - For one thing, it is difficult to breed large animals like this in captivity. Difficult and expensive. For another, there is no simple solution like this for most of them. You can't take the tusks from an elephant without maiming the elephant. You obviously can't take the hands...