For the first of The PBD’s “Conservation Success Stories”, we head 12,000 miles from the UK, to New Zealand. The country is home to some of the world’s most remarkable birds – the kakapo, the kiwi, the takahē, the now-extinct moa. But this piece concerns one of New Zealand’s much smaller but no less endearing species…
How Can You Mitigate Palm Oil’s Environmental Impact?
Explosive growth in palm oil plantations in tropical regions is a real problem. It’s not particularly new. Short-term economic policies pursued by Southeast Asian governments in the 1970s began the trend, and massive demand increases since then have reaped an environmental whirlwind. Palm oil plantations now cover over 27 million hectares of the Earth’s surface….
On the Front Line of Rhino Conservation
The threats facing the world’s remaining rhinos are as real as ever. For the people working to protect them, that means danger is never too far away. Last week (20 February ’17), a group of armed men breached security at the Fundimvelo Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province. They proceeded to violently…
A Heavy Issue: Threats to Africa’s Elephants & How You Can Help
The largest living land animal: the African elephant, Loxodonta Africana; now listed as “vulnerable” by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). This mother and calf were part of a 20-strong herd that I filmed and photographed in September 2016 in the Madikwe Reserve, on the South Africa-Botswana border. The Problem That should probably…
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