Nowhere in Africa are elephants safe…Poverty and Greed are killing the last Africa’s elephants…

Article by Jeffrey Gettleman. Published in the NY Times In the past several years, 10,000 elephants in Gabon have been wiped out, some picked off by impoverished hunters creeping around the jungle with rusty shotguns and willing to be paid Continue Reading

IUCN Species of the Day: Denison’s Barb

  Photo credit: Gerry Verrier   Denison’s Barb, Puntius denisonii, is listed as ‘VULNERABLE’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM.

IUCN Species of the Day: Forest Coconut

Photo credit: John Dransfield/RBG Kew   The Forest Coconut, Voanioala gerardii, is listed as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

IUCN Species of the Day: Hawksbill Turtle

    Photo credit: The Ocean Conservancy   The Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, is classified as ‘CRITICALLY ENDANGERED’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. It is a migratory marine reptile, found in tropical and, to a lesser extent, Continue Reading