Orca Expert Asked to Leave SeaWorld (Video)
Written by PETA
Based on SeaWorld’s plummeting stock value and decreased attendance ( fox5sandiego.com/2015/08/06/se… ) and the blow that it was dealt recently when the California Coastal Commission banned ( www.peta.org/blog/no-breeding-… ) its captive-breeding program in that state, one would think that the parks would take any guest they could get. But that wasn’t the case when it came to marine biologist and orca expert Ingrid Visser ( www.peta.org/blog/orca-badly-h… ), Ph.D., and former SeaWorld orca trainer John Hargrove ( www.thedodo.com/john-hargrove-… ), who recently visited SeaWorld San Diego. The pair was asked leave—but not before collecting some troubling footage: …
PETA (press release) (blog) – October 22, 2015
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China’s Panda Reserves Under Threat From Illegal Logging: Greenpeace
Reported by Lin Ping for RFA’s Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
Illegal logging in panda sanctuaries in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan is destroying the world’s largest habitat for the iconic creatures, an environmental group said in a report published this week.
The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is becoming fragmented by the loss of forest, putting pandas and other wildlife in danger, Greenpeace said in a report released online.
The reserve is home to around one-third of the existing world population of giant pandas, a creature that has come to symbolize China’s wildlife and its soft power around the world …
Radio Free Asia – October 22, 2015
www.rfa.org/english/news/china…
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