Last Week’s Leaked Video of NRA Leader Shooting Elephant Shows Peril for Wildlife in Southern Africa The video released last week by The New Yorker of a hunting gambit by National Rifle Association (NRA) chief Wayne LaPierre reminds us why Botswana and South Africa have a duty to close their doors to foreign trophy hunters who care … Read more
How did the crisis with the captive elephants in Thailand come to your attention? It was serendipity. I was discussing the needs of the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand with its CEO and she commented that there were also hundreds of starving elephants all over the country. After more questions and phone calls that day, … Read more
Unrelenting hunger for elephants in Thailand has been one little-known derivative of a pandemic whose reverberations know no bounds when it comes to species Unrelenting hunger for elephants in Thailand has been one little-known derivative of a pandemic whose reverberations know no bounds when it comes to species. When tourism tumbled in Thailand, the nation’s … Read more
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first claimed the gavel in January of 2007, she and her new Democratic majority made animal protection a priority concern. The House took up the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act — to make dogfighting and cockfighting and associated activities a federal felony — less than 60 days into the new Congress. … Read more