Update 24 September 2015 – Petition to Take PM Productions’ Animals into Care The so called show, “Amazing Rainforest Experience” is a Disgrace The ‘show’ is operated by PM Productions Why would anyone want to see a tortured ‘ambush’ of malnourished, skeletal tigers and a cougar with taut flesh on its …
Call to enhance protection of White and Black rhinoceros, African lions and African elephants IWB Petition to the UK Government Petition open to British Citizens and UK Residents only At 10,000 signatures we get a response from the government. At 100,000 signatures our petition will be considered for a debate in Parliament. ____________________________________________________ Current …
NSPCA Website September 2015 – Limpopo (Alldays) Driven Hunt back story Driven Hunting In September our Wildlife Protection Unit was alerted to a driven hunt taking place in Alldays, Limpopo. This was the first time that we had heard of driven hunts occurring in South Africa and we despatched …
On 7th October, MSNBC will present the American television premiere of “Blood Lions,” a compelling documentary which takes audiences inside the so called “canned lion hunting” industry in South Africa. Blood Lions will air at 22.00 on the East Coast and at 23.00 (West Coast). “Blood Lions” follows environmental journalist and …
“Japan and the Whale,” BBC News, 8 February 2016: “It may seem incredibly banal. But Japan’s determination to continue whaling may come down to a handful of MPs from whaling constituencies and a few hundred bureaucrats who don’t want to see their budgets cut.” “Japan won’t stop whaling, so Anonymous …
Saving the Northern White Rhino – International Rescue Meeting in Vienna, 3 – 6 December Save the Northern white rhino – Make a Rhino With World Rhino Day (22 September 2015, #WorldRhinoDay) approaching, I for one do not want to be ‘the generation’ that presided over the extinction of a …
Current Campaign to Stop the Slaughter _________________________________________________________________________ The Danish authorities have taken four of Sea Shepherd’s small fast boats during this year’s campaign to disrupt the ‘Driven Hunt’ of pilot whales and dolphins. Sea Shepherd urgently needs to replace their small boats in order to continue to disrupt this ‘Driven …
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES), will hold the seventeenth regular meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES (CoP17) in South Africa, September 24 to October 5, 2016. IWB is keen for the United Kingdom and United States to take a lead role in …
Meeting of World Leaders in Lion Conservation Convened by WildCRU and Panthera at the Recanati-Kaplan Centre in Oxford in 2016. The announcement in August 2015 by Wild CRU and Panthera is that they are “organizing and hosting a landmark summit for range wide lion conservation in 2016, in honour of Cecil the lion, whose death triggered …
World Rhino Day Website – To highlight the plight of the rhinoceros, Tuesday the 22 September 2015 has been designated as “World Rhino Day”- #WorldRhinoDay Rhino populations are under sever threat from poaching to satisfying demand across swathes of Asia, where rhino horn is considered to have medicinal properties and is …
