Survived more than 30 years of work in some of the world’s most dangerous places, only to be stabbed in his bed NAIROBI, Kenya––Nairobi police homicide detectives appear to believe that renowned elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking investigator Esmond Bradley Martin Jr., 75, was murdered on February 5, 2018 in connection with a […]
And the lesson from Harambe’s death is? Well, it’s not to blame mom.
by Barry Kent Mackay Senior Program Associate, Born Free U.S.A. There has been so much written about the shooting of a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla named Harambe at Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, 2016 that it might seem that all views and issues have been amply explored, although too often not necessarily by people who […]
Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors
Pigs can get Ebola, but do they spread it? KAMPALA, Uganda; NAIROBI, Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans, though no one knows for sure yet, warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]