Wildlifedirect

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• Video on climate change and poverty alleviation in Africa

  
  Baraza — Authority: 411
  We’ve been thinking about the implications of decisions (or not) at Copenhagen at the Global Climate Change Conference which starts on Monday. To find out what  the average Kenyan thinks, I spoke to Rhoda, a domestic worker in Nairobi. You can also download and listen to this as a podcast on the Public Radio ...
  3 days ago

• WildlifeDirect wins Mongabay award

  
  Baraza — Authority: 411
  We at WildilfeDirect are hugely honored to have won mongabays “Innovation in Conservation Award” for 2009. The prize is granted by Mongabay each year to an organization using an unconventional and highly effective approach to conservation. “WildlifeDirect , a group that promotes conservation through ...
  6 days ago

• Carbofuran is a threat in Thailand

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 107
  Its not just in Kenya, activivists in Thiland have just reported that Carbofuran in Thailand is a major Public Health Risk In Research on 22/11/2009 at 1:33 pm To be translated and distributed at the upcoming  ...
  1 week ago

• TEDx Nairobi: Engaging Conversation on Conservation in Africa

  
  Baraza — Authority: 411
  Paula was one of the speakers in a recently held Technology conference in Nairobi. Mark Kaigwa (aka mkaigwa), one of the friends of WildlifeDirect, who was attending the conference on 8 August 2009, wrote the great entry about Paula’s presentation reproduced below. Thank you Bwana Kaigwa. Engaging Conversation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Childs death to Furadan not an isolated case

  
  Baraza — Authority: 411
  After WildlifeDirect spoke to the father of 3 year old Kimutai last week there has been a flurry of media regarding this case. National Geographic also interviewed the childs father and the manufacturers of Furadan, FMC claim to be conducting their own investigations . This is not the first time that a human being ...
  3 weeks ago

• The poisoning of Kenya’s lions

  
  Baraza — Authority: 411
  Dear all, After the death of a child in Kenya from ingesting Furadan, and with the US Environmental Protection Agency banning carbofuran in America, we feel that there is no justification for delaying banning it in Kenya. Watch this video and share with your friends. Please support our campaign to save lions. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Carbofuran ban is good for everyone - in USA only

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 107
  This really good article from Tree hugger explains the benefits of the carbofuran ban in USA As of the end of the year, one more pesticide will be absent from food crops grown in the United States. In May the EPA ruled that the current residue limits of the insecticide carbofuran on food crops was too high, ...
  4 weeks ago

• 3 year old Child dies after eating Furadan in Kenya

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 107
  Dear friends, We can confirm the tragic reports of a human death due to carbofuran poisoning. Just today we spoke on phone with the heartbroken father of a child who died of Furadan poisoning. The report of this death first appeared on Kenya’s The Standard newspaper on Friday, 30 October 2009 saying that on ...
  4 weeks ago

• FMC respond to report on lion killing with carbofuran

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 107
  In a recent statement the FMC responded to the rebroadcasting of the CBS 60 Minutes show on the poisoning of lions. Note my comments in bold italics against their claims reproduced here In The News · We expanded our contact with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa to improve reporting ...
  4 weeks ago

• Carbofuran ban in USA will affect imports

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 107
  The implications of the revocation of carbofuran tolerances which we reported previously will spread well beyond USA as it will affect all food imports. This note is from an article in WildifeExtra The Worldwide implications of carbofuran ban in USA “The revocation of all food tolerances has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Carbofuran also misused in USA

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 107
  We have been talking mostly about the misuse of  carbofuran in Africa and we sometimes feel despondent at the hopelessness of the situation facing lions, hyenas, vultures and other animals not to mention African farmers and consumers. In Africa carbofuran is easily available over the counter,  it is very cheap and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lion vs warthog mashup

  
  Baraza — Authority: 411
  I am amazed! Someone took our blog post and podcast about lion vs warthog in the Masai Mara and mashed it up to produce this great Youtube video! Thank you Tigersandme! And all of you out there please feel free to do the same - send us links to your mashups!
  4 weeks ago

• 10 more lions poisoned in Masai Mara

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 107
  WildlifeDirect has been raising the alarm about cattle in Kenya’s parks for some time know - cattle grazing in the park will lead to conflict with lions and this has an inevitable outcome. CAttle will die and then lions will be killed  in retaliation.  We warned of diseases when cattle started dying in the ...
  5 weeks ago

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