Head of former WSPA out after six years LONDON, U.K.––The World Animal Protection board of trustees, on the eve of the two largest international animal protection conferences of 2015, abruptly removed six-year director general Mike Baker from office. What this might mean for the future direction of World Animal Protection, formerly […]
Elephant coffee: biggest rectums in the coffee business
by Merritt Clifton CHANG SAEN, Thailand; MADURAI, India––Only a colossal rectum could produce elephant dung coffee. Marketed as a lucrative rump enterprise in support of the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, elephant dung coffee might at first sniff suggest an easy free market approach to fundraising to rescue elephants, of particular appeal to status-seeking […]
Raju the Independence Day elephant
After fifty long years of being chained and leading a life of suffering, Raju the elephant was freed in the early hours of the morning on July 4, 2014 by Wildlife SOS. For the first time after five decades, he enjoyed freedom. It is an interesting coincidence that July 4 happened to be Independence Day in the […]
Bear rescue season follows tsunami
AGRA, CHENGDU––Wildlife SOS founder Kartick Satyanarayan spent most of the first two months of 2005 often literally up to his hips in post-tsunami swamp water and sometimes displaced salt water crocodiles, gorged on human remains. Still, Satyanarayan did not forget that his primary objective for the year was to rescue sloth bears and jail the […]