Good news and Happy New Year!
Two joyful major events simultaneously occurred and must be celebrated.
1 – For the first time in 27 years, Japan has been banned from harpoon fishing whales in Antarctica. Hundreds of sea mammals thus avoid suffering from pain and death, thanks to a brittle but tangible truce allowing southern hemisphere whales to finally be given a blow-er.
2 –Tamil Nadu’s (India) 98 domestic elephants are on vacation from December 11, 2014, to January 27, 2015. They’ve all been trucked and gathered into two camps – one for religious-use elephants, one for forest landscaping-use elephants – to undergo rejuvenation and physical and mental health monitoring. Meanwhile, mahouts are taught how to better take care of their pachyderms.
Good news and Happy New Year!
Two joyful major events simultaneously occurred and must be celebrated.
1 – For the first time in 27 years, Japan has been banned from harpoon fishing whales in Antarctica. Hundreds of sea mammals thus avoid suffering from pain and death, thanks to a brittle but tangible truce allowing southern hemisphere whales to finally be given a blow-er.
2 –Tamil Nadu’s (India) 98 domestic elephants are on vacation from December 11, 2014, to January 27, 2015. They’ve all been trucked and gathered into two camps – one for religious-use elephants, one for forest landscaping-use elephants – to undergo rejuvenation and physical and mental health monitoring. Meanwhile, mahouts are taught how to better take care of their pachyderms.
Ebola over There
Between 2009 and 2013, US customs officials seized 69,000 pieces of African bushmeat.
Born Free, the English NGO, estimates that close to 8,000 tons of bushmeat are imported into the United Kingdom each year.
At the Roissy-en-France airport, results of a surveillance program of morning flights from western Africa lasting three weeks in June 2008 suggest that at least 3,287 tons of meat, of which 273 tonnes were bushmeat, were imported each year through terminal 2E of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle.
Fish meat, mutton and lamb, goat, cow beef and bushmeat made up the majority of the tonnage.
Ebola over There
Between 2009 and 2013, US customs officials seized 69,000 pieces of African bushmeat.
Born Free, the English NGO, estimates that close to 8,000 tons of bushmeat are imported into the United Kingdom each year.
At the Roissy-en-France airport, results of a surveillance program of morning flights from western Africa lasting three weeks in June 2008 suggest that at least 3,287 tons of meat, of which 273 tonnes were bushmeat, were imported each year through terminal 2E of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle.
Fish meat, mutton and lamb, goat, cow beef and bushmeat made up the majority of the tonnage.
