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• The poisoning of Kenya’s lions

  
  Baraza — Authority: 505
  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. ...
  2 days ago

• Carbofuran ban is good for everyone - in USA only

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  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, ...
  3 days ago

• 3 year old Child dies after eating Furadan in Kenya

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• FMC respond to report on lion killing with carbofuran

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Carbofuran ban in USA will affect imports

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Carbofuran also misused in USA

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Lion vs warthog mashup

  
  Baraza — Authority: 505
  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!
  1 week ago

• 10 more lions poisoned in Masai Mara

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• PopTech ! Using technology to get the community involved in saving lions in Kenya

  
  Network Solutions - Small business conversations and working together for small business success — Authority: 494
  Wildlifedirect.org uses social platforms like blogs and websites to spread awareness of wildlife conservation. The website  of wildlifedirect.org puts their goals as “raising funds for conservation. Using the internet, we bring supporters and conservationists together through online diaries or blogs to enable ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saving lions at PopTech

  
  Baraza — Authority: 505
  Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking in a panel at PopTech about Conservation 2.o - the New edge of Conservation. I spoke about WildlifeDirect and I showed our video on Youtube which we produced in partnership with National Geographic and told Antony Kasanga’s story about the Lion Guardians. Antony’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paula at Poptech Fellows program

  
  Baraza — Authority: 505
  Dear Friends I just wanted to let you know that I am at PopTech   and it is amazing. I wish my entire team from Nairobi and all our WildlifeDirect bloggers could be here with me! In the PopTech Fellows program I will be talking about WildlifeDirect and working with a team of professional marketers, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Outrage Over Uganda’s Re-introduction of Sport Hunting

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Conservationists are taken aback over Uganda’s re-introduction of sport hunting in selected areas outside of designated protected areas. Conservationists from Nature Uganda and WildlifeDirect voiced their concerns over Uganda’s claim that they have enough wildlife to sustainably practice this consumptive use of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sheryls thoughts on climate change

  
  Baraza — Authority: 505
  Dear all, I invited readers and friends to contribute their thoughts on Climate change in the run up to Copenhagen from 6th - 8th December - only 52 days away . It may not surprise many of you that our first guest blogger is Sheryl who writes  her own fantastic blog Not Honey: Please don’t tap on the glass. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Outrage Over Uganda’s Re-introduction of Sport Hunting

  
  Baraza — Authority: 505
  Conservationists are taken aback over Uganda’s re-introduction of sport hunting in selected areas outside of designated protected areas. Conservationists from Nature Uganda and WildlifeDirect voiced their concerns over Uganda’s claim that they have enough wildlife to sustainably practice this consumptive use of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Purple killer - the slide show

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  By rob Music provided by Kevin McLeod incompetech.com - to all you out there who have stood by us we  Thank you! Your support gives us strength.
  4 weeks ago

• 55 days left to save our planet

  
  Baraza — Authority: 505
   It’s hard to ignore the tension as the world hold it’s collective breath for the outcome of a meeting in Copenhagen on December 9-12 when the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meet for the last time on government level before the Kyoto climate agreement must be ...
  4 weeks ago

• Furadan is in stock

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  This report just came in from Tanzania “Most of the agro shops have Furadan in Kampala. It is in KISORO as well right next to the Gorillas. I have samples of a blue powder from the Game Dept in Uganda taken at the site of poisonings . There have been bad kill off of hyena and vultures. The game Dept in Uganda ...
  8 weeks ago

• Silverback Titus has died in Rwanda

  
  Gorilla Protection — Authority: 400
  Dear Friends We are so sorry to be the bearers of bad and sad news- Titus, the star from Gorilla in the Mist has died.   KIGALI: The world’s most famous mountain gorilla Titus, aka the Gorilla King, has died at the age of 35, the Rwandan national parks office said Tuesday. ‘He was born on August 24, 1974 ...
  8 weeks ago

• Lion poisoning in Tanzania

  
  Stop Wildlife Poisoning — Authority: 484
  We just received this from someone who wants to remain anonymous I checked out Furadan sales in the town of Arusha. We found it in the first store we went to. And, lots of it, available in 200 gm, 500 gm and 1 kilo amounts. We asked what it was used for and the first response was for crops. Probing a little, we ...
  8 weeks ago

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