As of this post, our team is working around the world to stop poaching before it starts. And we’ve been quite successful in the last few months. Recent intrusion events include Hawaii, Indonesia, and South Africa, where we were able to detect and apprehend individuals seeking to poach either flora...
Did you know that poaching isn’t just an crisis among animals around the world? What first comes to mind is always elephants, rhinos, and now more commonly pangolins, tigers, and even turtles. These are some of the most poached and trafficked animals on Earth, but there is also a network...
For anyone, to plan a holiday (vacation) is one of the most exciting times. The urge to see the beauty of a new place makes it so much more adventurous. From the moment the idea arises to the moment a person boards the plane or boat, it feels like time...
Permission. “Permission” is not a word we often think about when it comes to the natural world. Our society tends to approach nature as something it is entitled to use, entitled to explore, entitled to exploit, even entitled to kill. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Humans, despite some...
There’s something about Hawaii that is mesmerizing. Different. Something in the air. I am sitting in my hotel room in Honolulu and listening to the dull moan of traffic. Lanai door open to the city. Open to the whispers of the island. It’s busy, yes. But not the same busy...
You’ll never forget the first time you watch a Kevin Richardson lion video. They’re—somehow—simultaneously heart-stopping and heart-warming. The lions are so excited to see him, they run directly toward him… and us in the camera! They throw their paws around his neck. They wrestle him to the ground. They nuzzle and...
A couple of sticks. A small pile of rocks. On first glance, you might not give either a second look in the African wilderness. A closer inspection, however, reveals those “couple of sticks” are actually laid out in a curious, unnatural, almost symbolic way. And that “small pile of rocks”?...
It’s the most trafficked animal in the entire would, and you probably have never heard of it. It has scales, yet is a mammal. It has a tongue that is twice as long as its body, and looks like a modern day artichoke dinosaur that lives in the trees and...
Some of our most dedicated supporters joined WPS on an adventure of a lifetime. In order to test for sterility to encourage rhino births, and to monitor for genetic diversity, our team recently darted all of the white rhinos we work with in South Africa. Southern white rhinos were nearly extinct...
At the beginning of the 20th century many people thought the white rhinoceros had gone completely extinct. Turns out there were just a few left . . . on the order of a few hundred . . . and throughout the last 120 years, there has been a concerted effort...
