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10/24/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

TNT-sniffing elephants could soon be assisting landmine-location efforts in Angola

The 27-year Angolan Civil War has left indelible marks on the former Portuguese colony. The most enduring of these are, undoubtedly, the millions of undetonated landmines underneath the Angolan countryside. Tens of thousands of people have been seriously wounded or killed by landmines. In a bid to solve this crisis, people have turned to the […]

09/19/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Highly intelligent Elephants adopt stealth guerilla warfare tactics to stay alive by avoiding hunters

A 10-year study found that the rise of illegal hunting in Kenya have forced elephants to become nocturnal, according to a Daily Mail report. “The escalation of poaching has become the greatest immediate threat to the survival of elephants,” Festus Ihwagi, study co-author and a researcher at the University of Twente in The Netherlands expressed. […]

08/25/2017 / By Russel Davis

Nature fights back: Elephant tramples big game hunter to death

An Argentinian hunter has recently been attacked and killed by an elephant at a private game farm in Namibia, PJ Media reported online. According to the report, Jose Monzalvez and four other trophy hunters traveled to the private game farm in pursuit of elephants. The report noted that the hunting party was tracking an elephant herd and […]

04/27/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Mass die-offs accelerate across the planet, by 2020 two-thirds of wild animals will be wiped out

The planet’s animal population is rapidly dwindling, with about two-thirds expected to be wiped out by 2020, a recent analysis revealed. To carry out the study, researchers from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) compiled data on animal population and found that it declined by 57 percent between 1970 and 2012. The research […]

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