White Tiger Breeding is Not Conservation

The Tiger is under severe threat through loss of habitat and poaching to supply an illicit trade in animal parts. We are lucky in that there are six Tiger sub-species still surviving. These are the Bengal...

Mexico's Big Cats

Mexico’s Big Cats Mexico is number four in the whole world for the diversity of its wildlife. Luckily, Mexicans do not hunt or eat most of them, nor believe in fertility-aids made from their ground-down...

Save the Karner Blue Butterfly

The Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) is a beautiful little blue butterfly with a problem. The only host plant for Karner Blue caterpillars, the wild blue lupine (Lupinus perennis), is...

Know your animals while on safari

Did You Know?  Wild dogs ·        The markings on wild dogs aren’t exactly the same between individuals, making it easy to identify different individuals. Why such a pattern should develop,...

Turtle Conservation in Thailand

Turtle Conservation started in Thailand way back in 1947 when commercial fishing of turtles was banned. It was probably one of the first countries in the world to offer such protection. Sadly it was not as...

How To Help Wildlife

Many people want to help wildlife, but aren't quite sure how to go about it.The numbers are daunting. There are over 11,000 endangered animal species in the world today, and many others in decline due to...

American Black Bears

A Bear is not an animal that we often see, except perhaps in zoos and yet there are eight different species of bear roaming around our planet. The first bears appeared nearly 20 million years ago and many of...

The Last of the Pygmicans

This is a baby pygmy elephant at the San Francisco Zoo during the 30's, when the zoo attempted to breed Pygmy Elephants in captivity. Today, Borneo Pygmy Elephants are endangered and a tiny number of them (30...

Wild World

helping the animals

Right now, thousands of animals are dying. They're starving, being abused, and there homes are banishing... and MUCH, MUCH more!!! But don't get too sad, becasue you can help! There are SOO SOO SOO many ways...