Chinese drug firms backed by global banks found using leopard and pangolin parts, group says
Article written by Michelle Toh Originally published by CNN Business (Sun, 21 Oct, 2023) Three top Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which are backed by top global banks, are using endangered animal parts in their medicines, according to an investigation by an environmental protection group. In a Monday report, the Environmental Investigation Agency UK (EIA) said it had found […]
Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows
Article written by Damian Carrington Originally published by The Guardian (Sun, 21 Oct, 2023) Sea level will be driven up no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, putting coastal cities in danger Accelerated ice melt in west Antarctica is inevitable for the rest of the century no matter how much carbon emissions are cut, research indicates. […]
World Lemur Day highlights the plight of Madagascar’s critically endangered primates
Today is World Lemur Day but tragically, there is little to celebrate. Lemurs – endemic to Madagascar and some of the world’s oldest living primates – are under terrible and constant threat. Climate change, habitat destruction and the illegal trade in bushmeat and exotic pets is rapidly driving their populations to extinction. Madagascar is home […]
Flame retardant pollution threatens wildlife on all continents, research finds
Article written by Tom Perkins Originally published by The Guardian (Wed, 18 Oct, 2023) More than 100 species, from frogs to killer whales, contaminated with long-lasting chemicals with serious health effects More than a hundred species of wildlife found across every continent are contaminated with highly toxic flame retardants, and the pollution is probably responsible […]
How a ‘mosaic forest’ is helping France adapt to rapid climate change
Originally published and written by Euronews Green (Wed, 18 Oct, 2023) A patchwork of 4,200 hectares of forest is being adapted for rising temperatures. In the Moulière massif in the Vienne département, France’s strategy for tackling climate change is called the “mosaic forest”. Here, a conquering birch grows among the oaks, and a young pine […]
South American monsoon heading towards ‘tipping point’ likely to cause Amazon dieback
Article written by Jonathan Watts Originally published by The Guardian (Wed, 4 Oct, 2023) ‘Shocking’ study finds Amazon rainforest will be unable to sustain itself and transport moisture once ‘regime shift’ occurs. The South American monsoon, which determines the climate of much of the continent, is being pushed towards a “critical destabilisation point”, according to […]
Antarctic sea-ice at ‘mind-blowing’ low alarms experts
Article written by Georgina Rannard, Becky Dale and Erwan Rivault Originally published by BBC News (Sun, 17 Sep, 2023) The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows, a worrying new benchmark for a region that once seemed resistant to global warming. “It’s so far outside anything we’ve seen, […]
Elephants on the march across African borders as heat stress leads to fatalities
Article written by Nyasha Chingono Originally published by The Guardian (Wed, 20 Sep, 2023) Mortality rate grows as animals roam long distances and clash with local people in desperate search for water The climate crisis is pushing elephants on a forced migration across borders in southern Africa in search of water, creating problems for national parks and […]
Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air
Article written by Matthew Taylor and Pamela Duncan Originally published by The Guardian (Wed, 20 Sep, 2023) Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year Europe is facing a “severe public health crisis”, with almost everyone across the continent living in areas with dangerous levels of […]
American Airlines demonstrated what could be the world’s cheapest way to fight global warming
Article written by Tim Fernholz Originally published by Quartz (Mon, 6 Sep, 2023) The airline is trialing technology developed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and Google. Aviation is a significant contributor to climate change, with emissions from airplanes responsible for about 3.5% of human-caused global warming. It’s not simply the byproducts of burning jet fuel, however. Just […]
‘Alarming’ scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platform
Article written by Karen McVeigh Originally published by The Guardian (Tue, 5 Sep, 2023) UN-developed Marine Sand Watch estimates 6bn tonnes dug up a year, well beyond rate at which it is replenished One million lorries of sand a day are being extracted from the world’s oceans, posing a “significant” threat to marine life and […]
‘Catastrophic’ loss: Huge colonies of emperor penguins saw no chicks survive last year as sea ice disappears
Article written by Rachel Ramirez Originally published by CNN World (Thu, 24 Aug, 2023) (CNN) — As rapidly warming global temperatures help push Antarctica’s sea ice to unprecedented lows, it’s threatening the very existence of one of the continent’s most iconic species: emperor penguins. Four out of five emperor penguin colonies analyzed in the Bellingshausen […]
World’s oldest moss could go extinct as a result of climate crisis
Article written by Rume Otuguor Originally published by The Guardian (Wed, 9 Aug, 2023) Scientists say Takakia, a 390m-year-old moss found in Himalayas, is at risk despite its ability to adapt to extreme weather The world’s oldest moss, found in the Himalayas, may not be able to survive climate breakdown, scientists have said. Takakia, which […]
Ocean temperatures hit 90 degrees, fueling weather disasters
Article written by Brian K Sullivan Originally published by Bloomberg (Tue, Jul 25, 2023) Soaring water temperatures are triggering extreme heat, storms and drought. Heat searing enough to knock out mobile phones. Wildfire smoke that turns the skies an apocalyptic orange. Flash floods submerging towns in upstate New York and Vermont. This grim procession of recent disasters is being driven […]
Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show
Article written by Damian Carrington Originally published by The Guardian (Tue, Jul 25, 2023) Analysis makes it clear human-caused global heating is destroying lives with worse to come without sharp emissions cuts The human-caused climate crisis is undeniably to blame for the deadly heatwaves that have struck Europe and the US in recent weeks, scientists […]
EU passes nature restoration law in knife-edge vote
Written by Ajit Niranjan Originally published by The Guardian (Wed, Jul 12, 2023) MEPs back law to place recovery measures on 20% of EU’s land and sea by 2030 by dozen votes The EU has narrowly passed a key law to protect nature – a core pillar of the Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s […]
World’s oceans changing colour due to climate breakdown, study suggests
Written by Sofia Quaglia Originally published by The Guardian (Wed, Jul 12, 2023) The sea is becoming greener due to changes in plankton populations, analysis of Nasa images finds Earth’s oceans are changing colour and climate breakdown is probably to blame, according to research. The deep blue sea is actually becoming steadily greener over time, […]
Climate change is driving earlier springtimes. For some birds, that could equal extinction: Study
Written by Nicole Karlis Originally published by Salon.com (Thu, Jul 6, 2023) Birds are trying to adapt, but can’t quite keep up with the earlier arrival of spring By now, it’s well understood that a warming planet is slowly advancing the arrival of spring. Flowers, like the famous cherry blossoms, are experiencing record-early blooms. Bees […]
Three in every five wildlife crimes in Europe go unpunished: Report
Written by Himanshu Nitnaware Originally published by Down To Earth (Thu, Jul 6, 2023) Birds were the species most targeted in wildlife crimes Most wildlife crimes remain invisible or go unpunished in Europe, flagged a new report. On an average, about 60 per cent of complaints of wildlife crimes reported to the prosecution did not […]
Climate change spells ‘terrifying’ future: UN rights chief
Originally published by France 24 (Mon, Jul 3, 2023) Climate change threatens to deliver a “truly terrifying” dystopian future of hunger and suffering, the United Nations’ human rights chief warned Monday. Volker Turk slammed world leaders for only thinking of the short term while dealing with the climate crisis. Turk told a UN Human Rights […]
Current heatwave across US south made five times more likely by climate crisis
Article written by Oliver Milman Originally published by The Guardian (Tue, Jun 27, 2023) Latest ‘heat dome’ event over Texas and Louisiana, plus much of Mexico, driven by human-cause climate change, scientists find The record heatwave roiling parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mexico was made at least five times more likely due to human-caused climate change, scientists […]
Thousands of dead fish have washed up on a Thai beach. Experts say climate change may be to blame
Article written by Reuters and Laura Paddison, CNN Originally published by CNN (Fri, Jun 23, 2023) Climate change may have stimulated a plankton bloom that caused thousands of dead fish to wash up along a roughly 4 kilometer (2.5 mile) stretch of beach in Thailand’s southern Chumphon province on Thursday, an expert said. Thon Thamrongnawasawat, […]
Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds
Article written by Johnathan Watts Originally published by The Guardian (Thu, Jun 22, 2023) Amazon rainforest and other ecosystems could collapse ‘very soon’, researchers warn Ecological collapse is likely to start sooner than previously believed, according to a new study that models how tipping points can amplify and accelerate one another. Based on these findings, […]
First cheetah cubs born in India in more than seven decades die in heatwave
Article written by Associated Press in Delhi Originally published by The Guardian (Fri, May 26, 2023) Mother among 20 of the big cats flown in from Africa as part of plan to reintroduce animal to country Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat that was brought to India from Africa last year have died […]
‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed
Article written by Damian Carrington Originally published by The Guardian (Tue, May 9, 2023) Leaks of potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, say experts, and would rapidly reduce global heating Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, […]
Formerly stable Greenland glacier shows signs of rapid retreat
The Steenstrup Glacier in northwestern Greenland used to be one of the country’s most stable glaciers. But a new study published in Nature Communications revealed that the ice formation now ranks in the top 10% of glaciers contributing to all ice melt in the region. From 2018 to 2021, the glacier retreated a staggering 8 […]
Air pollution ‘speeds up osteoporosis’ in postmenopausal women
Article written by Gary Fuller Originally published by The Guardian (Friday, March 10, 2023) US study finds bone loss occurs twice as fast among women living in areas with higher air pollution A study has concluded that air pollution is accelerating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. Researchers scanned the bones of more than 9,000 women living […]
Texas youth organizers take aim at the biggest oil field in the US
Article written by Aliya Uteuova Originally published by The Guardian (Friday, March 10, 2023) Proposed El Paso climate charter seeks to prohibit use of city water for extraction projects including those in Permian Basin A first-of-its-kind municipal climate charter in Texas could throw a wrench in US fossil fuel extraction. Residents of a major Texas […]
Like QUICKSAND, the muck of the near dried-up waterhole just SUCKED THE YOUNG ELEPHANT IN DEEPER as he struggled to get free…
Nothing better illustrates why we are so urgently seeking help to get water back into dried-up African waterholes than the… … recent near-death experience of a juvenile elephant who lives at the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa. Credit: Philip Keevy We have told you before about the devastating drought that has put hundreds […]
Toxic “forever chemicals” in Norwegian Arctic ice pose new risk to wildlife
The Norwegian Arctic is contaminated with disturbing levels of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and the chemicals may put major environmental pressure on the region’s wildlife, according to an Oxford University-led study. Researchers recently identified 26 types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, Norway. When the region’s ice melts, chemicals can move from […]
KILLER DROUGHT! 200 elephants and thousands more animals (giraffes, wildebeest, zebras) have perished from thirst!
Last week, we appealed to you for help in creating life-saving waterholes for the dehydrated animals of Kenya – you can read all about the devastating drought below. We have made progress but still have not reached our goal of $50,000 (£41,500). The longer it takes to raise the funds, the more animals will die […]
Unique Madagascan Mammals on Fast Track to Extinction
Over 20 million years of evolutionary history could be wiped from the face of the earth if action is not taken now to stop Madagascar’s unique mammals going extinct, according to a new study published in Nature Communications journal. Species at risk include the threatened ring-tailed lemur and the aye-aye, a nocturnal primate native to […]
A tribute to Animal Champion, Brian Davies: 1935 – 2022
I wish I were coming to you today with better news. But as a treasured and vital part of our Animal Survival International family, I must tell you… Brian Davies – our founder and fearless defender of the animals and their precious habitats – has passed away. Brian died peacefully in his sleep. His beloved […]
Brian Davies obituary (1935 – 2022)
Brian Davies – 4 February 1935 – 27 December 2022 Brian Davies, world-renowned animal welfare activist, has died. He was 87. To the general public, Davies will be most remembered for his success in ending the baby whitecoat seal slaughter in Canada in the 1960s, and for donating £1-million to the British Labour Party election […]
Pangolins! Elephants! SO MANY rare and endangered animals could be EXTINCT IN OUR LIFETIMES!
Our planet is in crisis and our irreplaceable wildlife is in terrible danger all over the world. ASI provides direct action to help animals in the most immediate peril – animals who would die without our help. At ASI, we see firsthand the devastating consequences of climate change, habitat destruction and the merciless illegal wildlife […]
Climate Crisis To Wipe Out Puffin Nesting Sites in Western Europe by the End of This Century
Most of Western Europe’s nesting sites for puffins are likely to be lost by the end of this century as a result of climate breakdown, warned a report this week. According to The Guardian, the report said that other seabirds would also be affected, including razorbills and arctic terns, unless immediate and urgent action was […]
How the African Rainforest Is Helping Fight Climate Change
Article written by Isabelle Gerretsen Originally published by BBC (Tuesday, April 19, 2022) In the midst of the African rainforest, one elusive animal wreaks havoc on vegetation – and in doing so, offers a big favour for the climate. As it trudges through the dense rainforests of West and Central Africa, the forest elephant creates […]
Elephant Death Toll Rises to 250 As Kenyan Drought Wears On
Kenya’s worst drought in 40 years killed 250 elephants and hundreds of other wild animals between February and October this year, according to Kenyan tourism minister Peninah Malonza. Reuters reports that while sporadic rainfall has finally begun in the region, Kenya’s Meteorological Department is predicting below-average rainfall for much of the country over the coming […]
“Rapid Transformation of Societies” Is the Only Way To Limit the Worsening Climate Crisis
The United Nation’s environmental agency this week said there is “no credible pathway to 34.7°F (1.5°C) in place”, according to The Guardian. It added that due to countries’ failure to adequately reduce carbon emissions, the only way to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis would be through a “rapid transformation of societies”. The […]
Australia Targets Zero Extinction to Protect Threatened Species
Australia has announced a zero-extinction target for its unique plants and animals in the wake of the country’s rapidly deteriorating environment. The goal forms part of a 10-year plan that prioritizes the conservation of 110 threatened species and commits to ensuring that 30% of both land and sea areas are in protected reserves by 2030. […]
URGENT! DROUGHT IMPACTS INTENSIFYING! ELEPHANTS and other wildlife dropping DEAD! Landscape strewn with carcasses.
One of the worst droughts to ever hit East Africa is wiping out Kenya’s elephants at a staggering rate. The cracked and parched landscape is barren, but for the decomposing carcasses of these once-magnificent animals. They dropped dead after searching in vain for water sources that no longer exist. Dehydrated and depleted, elephants die, utterly […]
UNBELIEVABLE, BUT TRUE – the process of obtaining charcoal for your barbeque grill is KILLING ANIMALS!
In Kenya, a tragedy is unfolding that is both sad and frightening as charcoal burners destroy forests to make charcoal for barbecue cookouts around the world. It is hard to believe, but the glowing coals that fuel barbecues have TERRIBLE IMPLICATIONS for ANIMALS. Kenya’s forests provide food and habitats for countless animals, and they are […]
Melting “Doomsday” Glacier in Antarctica – “holding on by fingernails” – Could Raise Sea Levels By Up to 10 Feet
A study published this week has revealed that the so-called ‘Doomsday’ glacier – an Antarctic glacier that buffers warming seas from the large Antarctic ice sheet – could melt much faster than predicted, Business Insider reports. Officially called the Thwaites Glacier, it is monitored closely by researchers. But a new undersea survey has shown that […]
IMAGINE being a tortoise (or a badger or hedgehog) and trying to outrun a wildfire!
Every year, thousands of wild animals are found hurt and in need of urgent help in the bustling city of Athens in Greece. Tortoises, foxes, bats, vultures, badgers and hedgehogs all find themselves injured or displaced because of animal trafficking, natural disasters, and encroachment on their habitats. Last year, Greece experienced the country’s worst heatwave […]
Scientists say all rainwater globally now unsafe to drink
New research has revealed that atmospheric levels of ‘forever chemicals’ – toxic pollutants that break down very slowly over time – are now so high that rainwater everywhere is considered unsafe for long-term human consumption. These pollutants, known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), have even been found in remote areas of Tibet and Antarctica. […]
Starving Polar Bears Resort to Feeding on Garbage as Their Habitats Erode
As climate change causes temperatures to rise, icy habitats rapidly melt away and refreeze more slowly, leaving polar bears helplessly stranded ashore for extended periods. With little to no ice available for the animals to hunt in deep water and feed on their usual, nutrient-rich food sources, hungry polar bears are now feasting on humans’ […]
Addo Elephant National Park Update: You Helped Us Bring Critical Water Supplies to Elephants and Other Wildlife in South Africa
Through your support, Animal Survival International (ASI) has managed to provide elephants and other wildlife roaming the Addo Elephant National Park with their most urgent need: water. Addo is situated in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, which is battling its worst drought in 100 years. Facing a particularly severe lack of water in Darlington, the […]
Animals are suffering in one of the WORST HEAT WAVES ever recorded – burning alive in forest fires, starving to death from lack of food and losing their homes to fire.
Right now, the northern hemisphere is scorching as fires rage through Europe while temperatures in the United States and China soar. Animals are suffering – burning alive in forest fires, starving to death from lack of food, and losing their homes to fire. For decades, governments ignored the scientific evidence that climate change was real […]
RECORD-BREAKING DROUGHT (worst in 100 years!). ELEPHANTS and other wildlife in dire peril in South Africa. We’re on the ground providing LIFE-SAVING WATER!
Recently, we told you about a deadly drought which is devastating the wildlife of the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa. To help the animals survive, we have been installing waterhole pumps across Addo’s vast terrain (633 square miles or 1,640 square kilometers) to provide water, helping to ensure the survival of many species. […]
No end in sight to WORST DROUGHT IN A CENTURY in South Africa – majestic elephants and their babies, and countless other animals, are DYING!
A crippling drought is devastating the wildlife of the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa. To help the animals survive, we have been installing waterhole pumps across Addo’s vast terrain (633 square miles or 1,640 square kilometers) to provide water, helping to ensure the survival of many species. In 2021, your donations helped us […]