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British gorilla specialist killed in Cameroon
photo by Arenddehaas (source: Wikimedia Commons) Primatologist Ymke Warren has been murdered in her home in the upscale neighborhood of Limbe, Cameroon. The murder took place on Tuesday morning when an...
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Creature Feature: The Round Island Boa
Image Source: Creepers.com. This week’s Creature Feature takes us to Round Island: an uninhabited nature reserve off the coast of Mauritius—which is also an island and approximately 560 miles east of...
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Illegal Chinese medicine trade fuels brutal rhino poaching
photo by Mark Turner (Flickr Creative Commons) Africa’s rhinos are facing a constant threat due to poachers and trophy hunting. The increasing demand for rhino horn used in traditional Chinese medicine...
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Rhino poaching in South Africa set to double this year
photo by Ian Turk (Turkinator on Flickr Creative Commons) The last female rhino at Krugersdorp Nature Reserve in South Africa was killed by poachers on Wednesday. The poachers are suspected to have...
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Creature Feature: The Northern Bald Ibis
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons. By: Richard Bartz.This week’s Creature Feature takes us to Africa and the Middle East, where you’ll find a rather odd member of the Ibis family. The Northern Bald Ibis...
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Western diet woes: Food high in fat, meat and sugar fosters bad bacteria in...
photo by Bernard Polet (much ado about nothing on Flickr CC) The diet of the West, high in animal products, fat, salt and sugar, is increasingly associated with wealth and development. The growing...
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Prince Charles launches project to protect African rainforest
image credit: United Nations Photo (Flickr CC) The Prince of Wales’ has launched the Size of Wales initiative, with the aim of protecting or reforesting an area in Africa the size of the country of...
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UK govt and European e-waste illegally dumped in Africa
Old computers and other e-waste from British government departments have been discovered at dumpsites in African countries and in containers headed for the continent, according to the UK’s environment...
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Cocoa genetic code cracked – Bittersweet?
photo by Guy Mullins (dotguy_az on Flickr CC) Multinational chocolate giant Mars, working with the US Department of Agriculture and IBM, have sequenced the genome of the cocoa tree. Rather than...
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Creature Feature: The Angel Shark
Image Source: Flickr. By: Philippe Guillaume.This week’s Creature Feature takes us along the coasts of Africa and Europe, particularly from the Mediterranean Sea area all the way up to Scandinavia....
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Clean burning stoves in poor nations should save lives
image credit: United Nations Photo (Flickr CC) Indoor air pollution from cooking stoves is the a serious health risk in developing countries. According to UN figures, it causes cardio-pulmonary...
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Creature Feature: The Zanzibar Red Colobus
Image Source: Flickr. By: Kibuyu. This week’s Creature Feature takes us to Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar archipelago (which is off the coast of Tanzania, Africa). Unfortunately, this primate...
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A “watered-down” revolution?
photo by glory lily (Flickr CC) After reading a National Geographic article about the modern challenges of agricultural, I wanted to post something related to the global water crisis and water in...
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Farewell Wangari Maathai – Nobel winner dies in Nairobi
photo by e pants (Flickr CC) Throat cancer has claimed the life of one of Africa’s and indeed the world’s luminaries of environmental and human rights activism. Wangari Maathai, Kenya’s founder of the...
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F-Word: Celebrities curse famine
image credit: Internews Network (Flickr CC) I love watching celebrities curse. It’s such a guilty pleasure. Having grown up in the 80s in the USA – without HBO or Showtime – upon moving to the UK I...
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Climate change news – worse than you thought
photo by kinderpate (Flickr CC) The ‘doomsayers’ brayed about climate change. They said ignore it at your peril. And despite some token political efforts and changes in public consciousness concerning...
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Gold and mercury poisoning
The use of mercury in gold mining and gilding (covering something in a thin layer of gold) has a long history of poisoning in the Western world and a continuing legacy of death and disease in...
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Sustainable energy: Goodbye Canada, hello Africa?
photo by Green Prophet1 (Flickr CC) According to Yale University’s 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) Canada ranked as the 46th greenest country in the world, a shameful and sudden drop from...
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UNICEF: One million children in Sahel countries threatened by famine in 2012
Source: stock.xchng A million children living in the Sahel countries are at risk of famine or dramatic malnutrition in 2012. This is two times more than today, warned the United Nations Fund for...
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Climate change affecting Rwanda’s gorillas
photo by weesam2010 (Flickr CC) According to a UN report an increase in global temperatures puts up to 1/3 of all Earth’s animals at risk of extinction. The gorillas of Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains in...
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