Unfortunately the bad news continues: due to the determined attack on indigenous reserves within the Brazilian Rainforest, and the continual push by Poachers and others into these reserves, now condoned by Bolsonaro the Brazilian president, the fires are burning and doing particularly significant damage within in indigenous reserves.
Continue reading “More bad news from the fires in Brazil”USA has given a hunter permission to bring back body parts of a lion from Tanzania
Up until 2010, hunters in the USA could bring back parts of the lions that they hunted to the USA. Under Obama the import of body parts from African hunts was banned because of their inability to get control of the poaching was going on.
However from the second that Trump came to power, despite giving a message on most things, he has been careful to promote hunting. If you wish to import body parts at the moment, you have to apply for a licence on each occasion.
Continue reading “USA has given a hunter permission to bring back body parts of a lion from Tanzania”An official in Brazil is shot for trying to protect indigenous people
As well as fires, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro approach’s to protecting the Amazon has been shown to lead to problems. His stance of supporting farmers and loggers in their theft of land, both from national parks or indigenous tribal land has reached its ultimate and some would say obvious conclusion.
Continue reading “An official in Brazil is shot for trying to protect indigenous people”
