Page views: 110 The last paradise on earth The Leuser ecosystem on Sumatra - a name that makes nature conservation enthusiasts' hearts beat faster and at the same time should give them a twinge. Because here, on 2.6 million hectares of Indonesian rainforest, is the last place on our planet where tigers, elephants, orangutans and rhinos live together in the wild. Three times larger than...
Page views: 86 Something big is coming. So big, in fact, that it's not quite finished yet. Which is a shame, because tomorrow morning at 11am Robert is going to drop a bombshell that might prove everything my radio play claims. And because that's the case, I've decided to give you a little taster today. If we get the kind...
Page views: 155 Born to bring in visitors - died because nobody wants to see you anymore A drama is currently unfolding at Nuremberg Zoo that shows with scandalous clarity what ails modern zoos. 20 Guinea baboons, intelligent, social, sentient, suffering - born in captivity, reared under artificial conditions - are to die. Why? Because they are „too many“. Because they are no longer „useful“....
There is hardly a colour in which there is not a species of them, there are even some in pink. And yet they are predators that slay their prey with the force of a pistol bullet or impale it with deadly sharp claws.
