By Oiwan Lam More than a dozen Finless Porpoise corpses have been found in Dongting Lake [1] in Hubei and Hunan provinces since March 2012. Chinese micro-bloggers are keeping each other updated on the situation while trying to determine the reasons for the deaths of this endangered species, as the government is yet to confirm the death toll […]
Brazil: President Rousseff’s Endangered Democracy
It has been one year since Dilma Rousseff was elected the first woman President of Brazil. During that period, her choices regarding the appointment of her government ministers have been the subject of mockeries. Why? Not less than 8 senior ministers have had to resign after allegations of involvement in corruption cases – for most cases. […]
Brutal attack on endangered tribe
A man from one of the world’s most endangered tribes has been attacked and seriously wounded trying to stop intruders hunting his tribe’s game. The police are treating the attack as attempted murder. Three men have been arrested over the incident. The man, named Alomole and from the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands, suffered […]
Endangered uncontacted tribe to feature on Discovery Channel
The Discovery Channel will show unique footage of an uncontacted tribe on Sunday, April 17 (9pm, ET and PT) in the Grasslands and Jungles episode of the new, groundbreaking show Human Planet. The film shows an uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, in never before seen detail. The BBC film crew used HD cameras and […]
Endangered and extinct species
We are living in an era where an unprecedented number of species have become extinct, also known as the Holocene extinction event. The IUCN (international Union for Conservation of Nature Natural Resources) has calculated the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms. The number of these organisms had drastically gone down and […]
Amazon mega-dams endanger uncontacted Indians
Two mega-dams being constructed in the Brazilian Amazon threaten to devastate several groups of uncontacted Indians. The Santo Antônio and Jirau damsare being built on the Madeira River, next to the territory of isolated Indians who are unaware that much of their land is likely to be destroyed. A recent expedition carried out by FUNAI, the Brazilian […]
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