WWF Join Forces With Coca Cola to Save Polar Bears
An amazing alliance between the WWF wildlife charity and Coca Cola looks set to start a three year global mission to save the polar bears in the Arctic.
An amazing alliance between the WWF wildlife charity and Coca Cola looks set to start a three year global mission to save the polar bears in the Arctic.
You can now download an amazing free iPad app from the WWF, called ‘Together’. This interactive iPad app is a great way to learn more about some of the world’s most beautiful, yet endangered, animals.
Well, it’s that time of the year again at the Aspinall Foundation parks. After enjoying plenty of festive cheer over Christmas and New Year, it’s back to work for the keepers at the Port Lympne Wild Animal Park as they have the unenviable tasks of counting up all the animals across the park.
Sad news coming through from the British conservation group LionAid, who have reported that the West African lion is now on the brink of extinction. These beautiful animals are now estimated to be numbered at less than 700 in the wild, with the number dropping rapidly across the continent at a worrying pace.
A debate between conservation groups about a ban on polar bear products has sparked major interest across the globe ahead of the UN wildlife meeting in March this year.
A farmer who cares for rhinos in South Africa has come up with an innovative new method to stop poachers from attacking the beautiful creatures for their horns.
WWF charity officials are becoming increasingly concerned that international organised crime syndicates will start to look at the illegal trade in wildlife as an ‘easy buck’.
WWF charity officials have recently seen the transportation of 13 endangered black rhinos to new areas of South Africa to encourage rapid breeding.
Did you know that dolphins can stay awake for up to 15 days on the trot, they’re the Keith Richards of the sea! They manage this amazing feat by putting half of their brain to sleep whilst the other stays awake. This puts a completely different spin of the phrase ‘being half asleep’!
Amazing news coming though from Uganda, where Mountain Gorilla numbers have risen by 10% in the last two years alone. The Mountain Gorilla, which has been on the critically endangered list for many years, are a subspecies of the Eastern Lowland Gorilla. They live in mountain forests in only two areas of the world, South West Uganda and a range of extinct volcanoes on the border of Congo, Uganda and Rwanda.
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