Archive for May, 2009
KWS beats WWF!
Posted by jimheck in Wildlife Management on May 29, 2009
Once again, the Kenyan Wildlife Service has demonstrated field science capabilities that far exceed its size, putting to shame better known wildlife NGOs like the WWF. You would think, wouldn’t you, that a foundation of almost all field science is a census of the things you’re studying? Yet except for recent work by the KWS [...]
U.S. WARNS KENYA
Our president meets Tanzania’s president, and nobody cares. Not even the Kenyans over which it was all about. You probably didn’t know that a week ago President Obama met with Tanzanian President Kikwete, the first African head-of-state to meet with our new president. In fact, the only mention of the meeting in the U.S. came [...]
POACHING WAR?
Posted by jimheck in Poaching, Politics, Wildlife Management on May 21, 2009
The Tanzanian military is poised to enter game parks in anti-poaching capacities. Poaching is probably on the rise in this economic downturn, but this just doesn’t bode well. Two weeks go, Tanzania’s Tourism Minister, Shamsa Mwangunga, announced that Tanzania’s military is being trained to enter the national park to deal with “sophisticated poaching syndicates and [...]
CRY LION!
Posted by jimheck in Politics, Wildlife Management on May 12, 2009
Cry Lion! Blame Maasai!Blog 12.5.9.1 Lions are in rapid decline. But celebrity scientists and popular media like National Geographic are sensationalizing the problem with a racist swipe at the Maasai. There has been a barrage of appeals from wildlife organizations and celebrity scientists recently for funds to “save lions.” Three months ago, National Geographic sent [...]
Hominid Uno?
New research nails man’s birthplace near the Kalahari Desert. Science continues to trump the dwindling support for creationism or anything anti-evolutionist. Today’s announcement by Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania that continuing analysis of worldwide human DNA nails the birthplace of modern man near the Kalahari is a much sexier story in the U.S. [...]