World's oldest male white rhino who calls Jacksonville Zoo home will undergo tooth surgery You may not see Archie in his exhibit, as animal specialists say he is expected to undergo the life-saving surgery this week. 05/22/2024 - 12:21 am | View Link
The First of 2,000 Privately Owned White Rhinos Get New Home – Rewilded by South African Conservancy The Munywana Conservancy, now a 79,000-acre (29,866-hectare) reserve, is upheld through a collaboration of community and private landowners. 05/21/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
EarthTalk How are the world’s rhino populations faring these days? A.K., Montreal, Quebec. The rhinoceros, famous for its impressive size and striking horns, is one of the ... 05/21/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
‘Find my Friends for rhinos’: How high-tech tracking is keeping tabs on wildlife Once common in the area, by the early 1990s Northern Kenya’s rhino population was decimated by poaching. But the country’s black rhino population has more than doubled since 1989, and by December 2022 ... 05/20/2024 - 9:16 pm | View Link
Truckloads of hope arrive in KZN as 40 rhinos are dropped off at Munywana conservancy A convoy of trucks carrying 40 ‘semi-wild’ rhinos has rolled into KwaZulu-Natal, delivering a welcome ray of hope to a province under brutal siege by horn poachers. 05/19/2024 - 10:52 am | View Link
The trial of fugitive Chinese mogul Guo Wengui kicks off in New York Wednesday, as federal prosecutors prepare to lay out what they have called a “complex” conspiracy involving elaborate financial schemes, dozens of offshore accounts, and evidence translated from Mandarin. But the heart of the case is a simple and familiar American phenomenon: political grift—a confidence job in which a demagogic leader allegedly translated partisan passion into personal gain.
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US gas utilities are partnering with one of the nation’s most trusted nonprofits as part of a “cynical PR stunt” to combat efforts to curb fossil fuel usage, a Guardian investigation has found.
Local Habitat for Humanity affiliates have teamed up with at least four utilities across 10 states to build “zero-net energy homes,” which are meant to produce more energy than they use.
The houses, which are sold at affordable rates to low-income families, are weatherized and meticulously insulated to boost efficiency and equipped with rooftop solar panels.
American taxpayers have spent considerable treasure to ensure that Yemenis didn’t starve and then had to spend another fortune providing protection against them.