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captivity
harambe
On Saturday a rare and beautiful creature was shot dead after an a four-year-old boy ‘slipped’ into the gorilla’s caged enclosure during a visit to Cincinnati Zoo with his family. The incident, which has triggered outcry the world over, has left us all with one harrowing and regretful question: did Harambe, the 17-year-old 450 pound...
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My very first solo holiday adventure was a month long stay at an elephant refuge centre in Thailand. Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand saves all types of animals, from gibbons to bears, but I only worked with the resident elephants. They were a bunch of lovely, retired old ladies and one young male who’d been rescued...
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Cecil – the name that seems to be on everyone’s lips these past couple of days, from work colleagues to Jimmy Fallon everyone is talking about it. The mass media coverage of one man’s mission to find and kill a wild animal, in an attempt to make his life more ‘exciting’, has received so much attention...
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pandas
Zoos aren’t usually my thing, but the allure of the new Giant Panda Conservation Centre that is housed at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Negara Zoo, meant I just couldn’t leave the city without seeing the pandas for myself. Launched in 2014 the state of the art conservation centre which is now home to two giant pandas,...
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As a follow up from last week’s blog about Sir David Attenborough, I will be putting the festive themes on hold for the week to talk about something which is unfortunately much more serious, because I strongly feel it is a topic that is not brought to our attention enough. I am unsure if this...
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