Happy #WorldElephantDay 🤓🐘🎉 Join with me to honour the gentle and nurturing giants of #Africa and #Asia. Elephants are endangered by #palmoil 🌴⛔️and #meat #deforestation and #poaching.Help them when you #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect

http://palmoildetectives.com/2024/08/12/echoes-of-the-ancients-the-wisdom-and-power-of-elephants/

Echoes of the Ancients: The Wisdom and Power of Elephants

World Elephant Day, celebrated on August 12th, honours the gentle and nurturing giants of Asia and Africa, who are revered for their deep spiritual wisdom, gentle strength, and nurturing natures. O…

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Off Ecuador's Galapagos, a former #shark-#poaching ship's new mission https://phys.org/news/2024-07-ecuador-galapagos-shark-poaching-ship.html

When #Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the #Galapagos in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached #fish including hammerhead and thresher #sharks. Today, the vessel has been repurposed for environmental patrols of those same waters, helping to hunt down predatory vessels of the kind it once was. It has also been renamed #Hualcopo for an Indigenous leader of centuries ago.

#Genomic analyses reveal #poaching hotspots, trade routes of most trafficked endangered mammal.

#conservation

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-genomic-analyses-reveal-poaching-hotspots.html

Genomic analyses reveal poaching hotspots, trade routes of most trafficked endangered mammal

UCLA scientists and colleagues have created a genetic source-to-destination map of the most trafficked mammal in the world—the pangolin—using samples from living white-bellied pangolins and scales from the animals confiscated at illicit markets.

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predicting that up to one million #animal and #plant species could soon be extinct.

Some #forests are already deemed “empty” in the wake of rampant #hunting and #poaching.

This problem goes beyond China and the current coronavirus pandemic and is driving the extinction of species in many countries, so we are calling for the worldwide closure of wildlife markets.

Please sign and share our petition and speak out against these barbaric markets.

- Rainforest Rescue

https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1211/shut-down-wildlife-markets-now

Shut down wildlife markets NOW!

With their brisk trade in endangered and poached animals, wildlife markets in many countries are driving the extinction of species. The markets are also breeding grounds for diseases that can also be deadly to humans.

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