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Do not visit Spain and/or Botswana.
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05 May 12
CAPE TOWN. - An international association of hunters, who held a conference this weekin Cape Town (South Africa), defended its activity, which these days is the subject of several controversies, and defended King Juan Carlos of Spain, questioned in recent weeks to hunt elephants... more »
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New Book: Animals Erased
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Just released in the US (April 3 2012). Available in UK and elsewhere in June.
Animals Erased: discourse, ecology and reconnection with the natural world. Wesleyan University Press. by Arran Stibbe
More details: [link]
Description
Animals are disappearing, vanishing, and dying out--not just in the physical sense of becoming extinct, but in the sense of being erased from our consciousness. Increasingly, interactions with animals happen at a remove: mediated by nature programs, books, and cartoons; framed by the enclosures of zoos and aquariums; distanced by the museum cases that display lifeless bodies. In this thought-provoking book, Arran Stibbe takes us on a journey of discovery, revealing the many ways in which language affects our relationships with animals and the natural world. Animal-product industry manuals, school textbooks, ecological reports, media coverage of environmental issues, and animal-rights polemics all commonly portray animals as inanimate objects or passive victims. In his search for an alternative to these negative forms of discourse, Stibbe turns to the traditional culture of Japan. Within Zen philosophy, haiku poetry, and even contemporary children's animated films, animals appear as active agents, leading their own lives for their own purposes, and of value in themselves.... more »
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Poaching may wipe out rhinos.
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Poaching may wipe out rhinos.
AFP MARCH 19, 2012 COMMENTS
Corruption among officials is contributing to the ongoing slaughter of rhinos.
Rhinos will be wiped from South Africa's wildlife parks by 2015 if poaching continues at its current rate, a campaigner fighting to save the beasts has warned.... more »
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Sir Richard Branson on polar bear duty in Toronto
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Sir Richard Branson on polar bear duty in Toronto
BY CAITLIN ORR, MARCH 6, 2012
TORONTO — Sir Richard Branson visited Toronto Tuesday to announce that legislation protecting Canada's polar bears will soon be brought to Ontario's legislature.
The legislation, he said, will be introduced as a private member's bill... more »
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Buffalo kills poacher in South Africa's Kruger park.
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Buffalo kills poacher in South Africa's Kruger park
FEBRUARY 22, 2012 A male Cape buffalo pictured in the Kruger National Park on December 7, 2007 in Mpumalanga, South Africa. A buffalo has killed a man suspected of poaching fish in the park.
JOHANNESBURG - A buffalo has killed a man suspected of poaching fish in... more »
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Orphan rhino regains vision.
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Orphan rhino regains vision. FEBRUARY 21, 2012 Workers at the Wildcare Africa Trust wildlife rehabilitation centre outside Pretoria, South Africa, bottle-feed some of the baby rhinoceroses at the centre in 2003.
An orphaned South African rhinoceros blinded by poachers who hit it on... more »
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