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Lord God Bird Redux: Is the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Really Back?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Alps, avian, Banggai Crow, Bavarian, Bermuda, bill, bird, birds, Black, Columbia, Elvis in Feathers, endangered, Europe, extinct, fish, forest, Frog, Giant Lizard, hardwood, Indonesia, ivory, Ivory-Bill, Ivory-Billed, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Japan, Kokonee, La Palma, Laos, Lazarus, Lazarus taxa, Lord God Bird, Painted, Petrel, Pine Vole, Rock Rat, South, Southeast, sub-tropical, swamp, swampy, taxa, the Canary Islands, wildlife, wood pecker, Woodpecker

Birders are keeping hope alive that the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker will re-appear “on the wing” somewhere in the swamps of the Southeastern U.S…

Air Shepherd is using drones to monitor poachers in Africa.

Wild & Wooly

Air Shepherd Uses Drones To Battle African Poachers

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The Lindbergh Foundation’s Air Shepherd program, developed to protect elephants & rhinos from poaching by using drones, is increasing patrols to look for poachers poisoning watering holes in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park.

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How Can We Save Elephants Around the World?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Africa, African, China, Chinese, CITES, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, elephants, IFAW, International Fund for Animal Welfare, ivory, pachyderm, poachers, poaching, tusk, tusks, wildlife

Environmentalists are scurrying to save elephants and other iconic African wildlife from extinction in the face of increasing poaching across Africa.

Wild & Wooly

Elephant Tusks Do Not Just Drop Out

Lauren Kearney Africa, Born Free Foundation, elephants, ivory, Virginia McKenna

An elephant is killed every 15 minutes, statistics say. For a little bit of ivory that sits on the mantelpiece, an innocent life is stolen. When the poachers dash in, with their AK47s, all they leave behind are blood stained grey bodies and bereft calves. I spoke to Virginia McKenna, actress and founder of the Born Free Foundation about the current global […]