Beyond Healing: Let’s Get Real About The Trade in Rhino Horn
A couple of weeks ago a report came out trumpeting that in 2014 the demand for rhino horn in Vietnam had dropped significantly when compared to 2013 – by 38% to be exact. The...
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Opinions, editorials and commentary on environmental concerns.
Are Rhinos Abandoned by All but South Africa
It looks like South Africa is going to break another record: 2014 is set to exceed 2013’s 1,004 rhino poached. But sadly, it’s not as though the nation is sitting back and doing nothing...
Ecce Animot (Behold the Animal)
Language is perhaps one of the most pragmatic of aspects about how we ought to treat (other) animals). It can go a long way in solving the entrenched separation between humans and (other) animals....
Banning the sale of ivory in the USA: A Moral Dilemma
A moral dilemma has emerged following an online debate to an article in Forbes Magazine discussing the US ban on all trade in ivory. The main article by Doug Bandow is palpably against the...
Why Little Belgium’s Ivory Crush Will help Save The Mighty Elephant
In the wake of France, the USA, China, Philippines, Chad and Ghana, Belgium became the latest country to destroy its stockpile of ivory. On Wednesday at the Palais des Colonies near Brussels the country...
The Many Shades of Oppression
I recently attended a speech about activism by Dr. Rev. Gwendolyn Boyd that was incredibly inspiring. Occurring just a few days before Martin Luther King Jr. day, Dr. Boyd made intriguing points about the...
Courageous Leaders at the White House Gate
While elected officials argue about how much money to take away from safety nets and infrastructure to redistribute to the wealthy and to those who are destroying our planet, 398 true leaders got arrested...
GLOBAL WARMING: A PHILOSPHER’S SOLUTION
As a student of philosophy the endless debate on global warming brings to mind the brilliance of an 18th Century mathematician who answered to the name of Blaise Pascal. This is the same Pascal...
THE NOTORIOUS GANG OF 8: THE COUNTRIES MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF ELEPHANTS
In March last year, the CITES Standing Committee singled out 8 countries most heavily implicated in the illegal trade of ivory. Vilified by the media as The Gang of Eight, three of the countries...
Trophy Hunting in the Spotlight (Again)
Nice, France – Trophy hunting came under the spotlight again when a father of three was killed on his property after being accidentally shot by a boar hunter. The local hunting society immediately closed...
