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Elephantastic News - Kenya Announces Death Penalty for Poachers! #repost from @wildaware ・・・ ► Elephants and rhinoceros are among the most threatened species in Kenya, as their tusks and horns make them prime targets to poachers. ► It’s illegal to kill the endangered animals in Kenya, and the Wildlife Conservation Act, put in place in 2013, carries a life sentence or fine of $200,000 for offenders; however, the sentences weren’t acting as a strong enough deterrence. ► A much harsher sentence has now been announced: poachers in Kenya will face the death penalty; the measure has brought about both praise from those hopeful that the stiffer sentence will save the species at risk and backlash, from those opposed to capital punishment. . . #Wildography #WildographyandSafaris #AfricanSafaris #travel4conservation #elephants #WorthMoreAlive #wildliferescue #animals #animalrights #activist #racingextinction #wildlife #wildaware #rhinos #kenya #poaching #endangered #extinction

#Repost @wildaware —— Ants are ridiculously strong. They have the ability to carry between 10 and 50 times their own body weight! The amount an ant can carry depends on the species. The Asian weaver ant, for example, can lift 100 times its own mass. #wildaware #ants #strong #animals #insects #wildlife https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccu3PpNOfSR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Repost from our conservation friends at... @wildaware @download.ins --- It’s videos like this that remind us how deeply humans’ are impacting our natural world… Aluminium drink cans contain toxic inks and are also lined with a very thin plastic exterior. Plastic contaminates our air, land, sea and can enter the human body through the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. “I’ve been around the block a few times and like to think I've seen it all, but this was a first for me and probably the most disturbing thing I've found in a fishes gut.” - @keefish84 We humans are both the cause of these problems, but also hold the key to the solutions. Video was taken in Western Australia. #wildaware #beachcleanup #plastic #fish #plasticfree #litter #rubbish #trash #savethisplanet #saveouroceans (at Mother Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT8hKltAKYI/?utm_medium=tumblr

This year's Olympic Medals are made from e-waste that the Japanese residents were encouraged to donate. *Daily Dose of Mind Boggling Facts* #wildaware #recycle #recycling #Olympics #olympics2021 (at Myrtle ave. Brooklyn, Ny) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSAM8k4LKOffV-FOOkq8GxSTiNOWrb9iXN_tJI0/?utm_medium=tumblr

A female European Honey Buzzard Bird was fitted with a satellite tracking system in Finland recently and was of particular interest to locals because it spent the most recent austral summer around the town of Reitz in the Free State in South Africa. She left Reitz to start heading north on 20 April and on the 2nd of June, she finally reached Finland where she will probably spend the boreal summer before probably returning again next season for a visit in South Africa. Here is an image showing the data received from the tracker which plots out the route that she took to head north... so, in just 42 days, she covered over 10 000 km at an average of more than 230 km every single day! Isn’t that just amazing...?!" What I find amazing is how she took a straight line north except for when she had to fly over water. (or Sudan) Edit: Apparently she turned right at the source of the Nile and followed it. I'm still fascinated by the fact that after that deviation she returned to the same longitudinal line she started on and continued until she reached her destination. #wildaware #animals #birds #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CGwZ91Ds644LuexlQZOwRdkOG_tStIIY20uWXk0/?igshid=1692m2z8wqbhg

#Repost @wildaware @download.ins --- A new report published by the Changing Markets Foundation has shed light on the world's worst companies for plastic pollution. So who are the world's worst offenders for plastic packaging production and pollution? The report names Coca-Cola KO as the company with the biggest plastic footprint on the planet with 2.9 million metric tonnes of plastic packaging produced per year. Its biggest competitor, Pepsico PEP , comes second with 2.3 million metric tonnes while Nestlé is the third-worst offender with 1.7 million metric tonnes of plastic packaging produced. Five of the eight companies with the biggest plastic footprint are American with Nestlé (Switzerland), Danone (France) and Unilever (United Kingdom/Netherlands) the exceptions. The report only focused on companies that actually report levels of plastic packaging produced with Mondelēz and Perfetti Van Melle notably absent from that list. . . #wildaware #trash #litter #savethisplanet #plastic #trashplanet #trashtag #plasticocean #beachcleanup https://www.instagram.com/p/CFbDTXGBnOT/?igshid=1auuvo128xxia

#Repost from the incredible conservationist @sharkguardian_mel @download.ins --- Reposted from @wildaware Fishing line takes 600 years to decompose. How many animals can one disregarded line kill during this time? . . #wildaware #fishingsucks #saveouroceans #animalrights #activist #earthlings #plantbased #loveanimals #vegan #conservation #savethisplanet #animals - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/CERXdaqhIjY/?igshid=yfah4y54n5pf

"Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand and then sold in the United States." We believe that the geographical map is very explanatory of how much this system that we have created is definitely impacting the planet.Transporting a product for tens of thousands of kilometers means enormously increasing its impact on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions, then doing it to pack it in plastic is even more absurd. The best choice is always to buy local fruit and vegetables, in season and obviously loose. Do you agree? #wildaware #climatechange #savethisplanet https://www.instagram.com/p/CEDcLojl3g8/?igshid=13qx14v3iu866