The pioneering White Lion Leadership Academy is a CALL TO ACTION - equipping each participant with the lion-hearted values and intuitive courage to take their enhanced and heightened awareness into hard, fast, realistic and practical application in our critical times. The objective of the Academy is to inspire and empower participants to embody White Lion leadership … [Read more...]
Change comes to the once-pristine roof of the world
Renowned biologist George Schaller (pictured in main photo) has been traveling to the Tibetan Plateau for nearly three decades, studying its unique wildlife. But with climate change and overgrazing taking a toll on the landscape, he reports, scientists and the Chinese government are working to preserve one of the planet’s wildest places. Once the pristine roof of the world, … [Read more...]
Stand with the Maasai
The Tanzanian government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of Maasai families off their lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards. The evictions are to begin immediately. Last time Avaaz raised the alarm, the President shelved the plan. Global pressure can stop him again. Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, … [Read more...]
Reversing the plight of the oribi
The Endangered Wildlife Trust’s (EWT) Threatened Grassland Species Programme (TGSP) has entered into an exciting partnership with the South Africa Community Action Network (SA CAN) that will assist the EWT in combating illegal hunting with dogs, especially when threatened species such as Oribi are targeted. The Oribi, a highly specialised antelope inhabiting Africa’s … [Read more...]
Lions hunted for sex potion
According to global civic organization Avaaz, Hundreds of South African lions are being slaughtered to make bogus sex potions for men in Asia. But a global public campaign can stop this cruel trade by hitting the government where it hurts - the tourism industry. only 20,000 wild lions left in Africa A ban on tiger bone sales has traders hunting a new prize - the majestic … [Read more...]
The world’s scientists’ climate change observations
As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change. From the Amazon to the Arctic, tribal peoples typically have the smallest ecological footprints, having practiced sustainable ways of life for thousands of years, but they are also more … [Read more...]
‘Eco-label’ Allows Killing of Wild Baboons
By not supporting a moratorium on the on-going trapping and shooting of baboons in FSC-certified timber plantations in South Africa, FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) International seems to place economic interests above ecological values. In response to a formal complaint lodged by GeaSphere, an environmental pressure group based in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa … [Read more...]
Gripping tale of chimpanzee Claude’s rescue
Chimpanzees, the animals most similar to humans are severely abused in some parts of Africa. In October 2010 the Central Africa Expeditionary Force (as they were known as) set out on a mission to Central African Republic (CAR) to relocate four chimpanzees to the Jane Goodall Institute SA Chimpanzee Eden Sanctuary in Nelspruit as part of the All Afrika Expedition. The Jane … [Read more...]
