“On the Trail” n°49, the defaunation bulletin
Issue 49 of “On the Trail”, 3 hours’ reading
Poaching and smuggling worldwide of animal species that are threatened with
extinction or are likely to become so.
1,690 events between November 1, 2025 and January 31, 2026
371 photos and 6 maps
1,192 sources, 256 pages, 8.6 Mo
Cracking the Moon
The upper stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, launched by SpaceX in collaboration with NASA on 15 January 2025 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, crashed at 8,690 km/h in the northern hemisphere of the Moon Wednesday 5 August 2026 in the morning. This assault on the celestial body, caused by an error or negligence in the command of the Blue Ghost 1 commercial mission, carved out a crater and sent up a huge clood of lunar geological dust and toxic dust from the splitting of the rocket’s upper stage (15 to 20 metres long, 3.9 tonnes) and the harmful substances and materials on board.
