Tamir Sapir, NY Billionaire, pleads guilty to animal trafficking

Tamir Sapir, the New York billlionaire, who owns Ruzial Ltd, a company based in the Cayman Islands, has pleaded guilty to animal trafficking of animal wildlife parts, when his yatch was found at the Port Everglades...

Zoo Kill Boars Amid 'Swine Flu' Fear

I'm starting to get immune to all the news on the H1N1 virus.  It's here, right in my city, and I just have to deal with it, without allowing other people's panic take control of my life. This story caught me...

President: "Earth has ‘right to life’"

Bolivian President promotes Earth’s ‘right to life’.  Mr. Evo Morales, the first indigenous president in Bolivia's history, spoke whole-heartedly to the UN General Assembly to encourage people to put the...

Hell on Earth one day - Christmas the next. Is the Planet done?

Melbourne, Australia - The country experienced its worst natural disaster ever at the begging of this year. With fires ravaging regions of Victoria for days; many people lost their homes and lands. The devestation...

Doomsday is knocking. What are you doing?

Reporting at their 31st annual end-of-winter survey, US-based organizations National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), stated that over 90 percent of...

Desperate Farmers of a dying environment.

By, Uwe Paschen. Desperate Farmers.   For decades now Farm communities around the globe have been bleeding by several factors. Politics comes to mind as well as Industry and mismanagement by the WTO, the...

Australian Castaway Dog Survives on Desert Island

An Australian cattle dog, washed overboard while on a boat trip with her owners, washed up on St. Bees island off the coast of Queensland. There she went feral and lived off the land for four months until park...

Fish farmers 'carry out secret seal slaughters'

Found this alarming story about the 'secret' slaughter of seal pups in Scotland. It follows a story published by myself last month where a man was jailed for killing seal pups. Scottish man who clubbed 21 seal pups...

PETA protests seal slaughter at Vancouver Olympic clock today

PETA protested at the Vancouver Olympic Clock in downtown Vancouver today, dressing up like 'bloody baby seals' in front of the art gallery at 1pm. The protest was a quiet but effective one, with four people dressed...

Two Rare elephants shot dead in Indonesia

Two rare Sumatran elephants were killed by single shots to the head and discovered near their rangers' camp near Kerinci National Park in Indonesia. They were used to patrol protected forests but it is thought...

Scottish man who clubbed 21 seal pups to death is jailed

The fisherman who beat and crushed the skulls of 21 seal pups to death on a beach on the island of East Linga, near the Shetland Islands has been jailed for 80 days. First ofender Jimmy Stewart, 47 admitted...

Sheep Farmers do it better! :)

By, Uwe Paschen.   Sheep Farmers do it better! Or in this case Shepherding broth to the extreme. My Son send me a video attached to his e-mail. The question asked was, “can we do it better?” Well, after...

Exotic Diseases in the U.S. May Rise

We know about Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease - but have you heard of Leishmaniasis Disease, Chagas Disease and/or Chikungunya Virus? Probably not, unless you've been to places outside of the U.S....

Zoo Chimp Planned Stone Attacks

Next time a chimpanzee throws a rock at you, it may not be just a random act, but part of a cunning plan.  Researchers at a Swedish zoo found that their chimp, Santino, was like a hairier Michael Schofield,...

North Sydney Shark Attack

This story could have ended very badly, but it didn't: Andrew Lindop and his father were surfing in North Sydney, Australia, when a shark bit Andrew's leg. His dad helped get him to shore, where two other surfers...

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