A picture was posted today on the page "Podgoricki vremeplov" on Facebook of a dog that was tied with a rope around his neck, a stone on the other end and thrown in the sea. The Government of Tivat has yet to react on this matter and the person that did it is still unknown. Please urge the Municipality of Tivat to find...
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, also known as Myanmar or Burma is a sovereign state in the region of Southeast Asia. It was considered a pariah state, while it was under the rule of a military junta from 1962 to 2011. The generals who ran the country suppressed almost all dissent. They had the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under...
The home of the Hooded Grebes, the remote lakes of the Patagonian wilderness, adjacent to the Santa Cruz River in Argentina, is now in danger because the government wants to build dams, a deal that was made between China and Argentina. The Nestor Kirchner-Jorge Cepernic dams represent 1,310 megawatts of hydroelectric capacity and produce an average of 5,171 gigawatt hours of energy, around...
The Mexican Gray Wolf (Also called Lobo) is one of the most endangered mammals in North America. But, there is still a chance to help these animals and save them from extinction. All of the living Mexican gray wolves are descendants of the last breeding survivors of the government’s lethal program, just seven wolves. On the last count, there were 113 wolves in...
"Wolves are a critical keystone species in a healthy ecosystem. A keystone species is often, but not always, a predator - like the wolf. Outnumbered greatly by their prey, predators can control the distribution, population, and behavior of large numbers of prey species. By altering prey movements, browsing patterns, and foraging behavior (predation risk effects), wolves have an indirect effect on plant and...
In the last few years the demand for donkey skin has increased exponentially. China is the biggest importer and now Australia is in the talks to make a deal with China to put donkeys on the live export list and ship them for slaughter. Donkey skin is dried and ground up to make a gelatine-based substance called ‘ejiao’. Ejiaoa is a traditional Chinese...
West Papua is a province of Indonesia. It was once a Dutch colony, but it was invaded in 1963 by Indonesia. Indonesia craved access to West Papua’s vast natural resources including Grasberg, a mountain which has since become the world’s largest goldmine. For over 50 years the people of West Papua have been suffering under the occupation of the Indonesian government. It is...