If you aren’t following @LivitLuvit, then now would be a good time to start. This chick is doing some awesome things in her mission to become a MTV Twitter Jockey, not least her #savethefurbabies campaign – which aims to raise funds and awareness for shelters in the US to get people to adopt, donate or help in any other way they can. It’s no secret that I love my own FurBabies (pains in the butt they may be!), and while … Read More »

Charming As requested by Partner in Crime, here are a few truths about shark chumming and how these practices really affect attacks and such. * Shark chumming does not have huge impact It does however, need to be done responsibly of course. But by all accounts, even from a conservation point of view, chumming does not really have much effect on shark attacks. The main reason for this is that sharks do not eat humans, their main diet is fish … Read More »

“Fish are friends, not food!” After the tragic news about the recent shark attack on a tourist in Fish Hoek, a lot of friends have been sending me news snippets, especially knowing how much sharks fascinate and interest me (and knowing my activist leanings). It’s all over the bloggisphere too, with varying views on whether sharks are the man-eating monsters they’re made out to be or not. I do of course have quite a lot of thoughts on this issue, … Read More »

If… Money weren’t an object, would there still be such a need to plunder this planet of its resources? We named each animal in the world, would it be as easy to kill them? All the people in the world cared enough, would anything really change? I did my bit to save the planet, would it make much difference? Canada and China didn’t exist, would animals have a better chance? We lived in a perfect world, would we really be … Read More »

Day After Tomorrow wolves: so faux, so cheesy I was kinda half watching the bore fest that is The Day After Tomorrow, which was on etv last night. I’ve seen it before, and it didn’t really rank up there as movies I enjoy – disaster movies are second only to period war dramas or epic biopics in terms of boreville to me. Still, there wasn’t much else on and I was tired enough to sit through most of it anyway. … Read More »

Laetizia VIA AAF I came across this bit of writing on the Animals Asia blog tonight that brought such a lump to my throat – it says everything that needs to be said about animals in need… whether they are moon bears, sharks, insects or tigers, each animal that comes closer to extinction is that much closer to being just another reference in a book or website, never to be seen in the wild again. It is not only our … Read More »