Pictures of the Week - April 25 - May 1, 2008 - TIME
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Pictures of the Week - May 2 - May 8, 2008 - TIME
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A sand storm in Afghanistan.
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Wildlife Extra News - Elephants, rhinos and tigers...
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From the page: "Elephants, rhinos and tigers butchered - The end of the world is nigh?
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In the last few days, we have received reports that poachers have killed 17 elephants in the Virunga National Park in the Congo, at least 6 tigers in Nepal's Chitwan National Park and 6 rhinos in northern India and Nepal. Additionally a Greenpeace ship has confronted an Italian trawler illegally fishing with 10 kilometres of driftnets and an investigation in a market in Thailand discovered highly endangered species of tortoises and turtles openly being sold.
The psyche of treating wildlife as a commodity is by no means new, but as the world population grows by some 250,000 people PER DAY, and the general wealth of the world expands rapidly too, the pressure on land and the environment will become untenable. The poaching I mentioned above are just a few small, but iconic, incidents that have all happened recently, but they are a symptom of a greater malaise. We have now reached the point where we can no longer just treat wildlife as a commodity, or in fact, ignore it altogether.
How to stop the poachers.
If you are a poor villager in India with 10 children to feed, and someone offers you a year's wages to help kill a tiger or rhino, it is not a hard choice. There will always be an impoverished few locals who, understandably, are prepared to take the risk of being caught. The odd middle man gets caught too, but the big criminals, often international organised crime gangs, rarely get caught or punished. And to be realistic, if they do get caught, another will step into replace them. If there is demand, there will always be a crime gang happy to fulfil that demand, and a few impoverished villagers willing to take the risk.
Rhino poached in Assam. Copyright Wildlife Trust of IndiaIconic species poaching
The world's population continues to soar, each person's consumption increases and demand for raw materials, food, water, energy and land rises exponentially, and the rich get richer, the number of unscrupulous wealthy people is increasing too. While this is the case, demand for ivory, tiger bone and rhino horn will increase, at the same time that supply is shrinking. The first, and only, rule of economics is that increase demand and reduced supply has the effect of increasing the price. And as the price for these products soars driven by the twin devils of supply and demand, so will the incidents of poaching of "Iconic Species"."
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Wildlife Extra News - Six critically endangered blue...
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From the page: "Six critically endangered blue iguanas butchered in Cayman Islands breeding facility
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May 2008. Six critically endangered Grand Cayman Blue Iguanas were brutally killed in the Cayman Islands QE II Botanic Park. The crime was discovered by volunteers with the National Trust's Blue Iguana Recovery Programme, shortly after 9am on Sunday morning.
Stamped on
The iguanas appeared to have massive internal injuries, as if they had been stamped on violently and repeatedly. Some were also cut and partially dismembered. Three were found dead inside their breeding pens, two had been carried out of their pens and left in the tour area outside. The body of the sixth is still missing, but entrails on the trail outside his pen are a grim sign of his fate.
Royal Cayman Islands Police
Department of Environment enforcement officer Carl Edwards was on the scene almost immediately, fast followed by the Royal Cayman Islands Police who began forensic work and have commenced an investigation. Dr. Colin Wakelin from the Department of Agriculture closed a large gash in one of the surviving victims and began making arrangements for an autopsy to confirm the causes of death, which will probably take place later today.
The dead iguanas were the adult breeding males "Yellow", "Pedro", "Digger", and "Eldemire". The grand matriarch of the captive facility, "Sara", was also dead. "Jessica" had been thrown out of the neighbouring pen and was in shock, but still moving. Both females had been preparing to lay eggs.
The effort to save Jessica's life went on into the night, but despite specialist advice by telephone from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Dr. Wakelin's resourceful and determined attempts to stabilize her, she passed away during the night.
Unknown motive
The persons responsible may have broken into the Park after closing hours, and found a way into the fenced-in captive breeding facility. No motive is known for this act of extreme violence against these unique and much-loved symbols of Cayman's natural heritage. Anyone with relevant information is asked to contact the
Royal Cayman Islands Police."
