Tag: South Africa
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Watch these baboons ransack a home in South Africa (Video)
They arrive to places unannounced, bring a bunch of their friends and start making a mess of things, almost as if they own the place. But enough about humans; baboons do it too.
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Thai Rhino Horn Trader Jailed for 40 Years in South Africa
Under the cover of then-legal rhino trophy hunts on game farms, Chumlong Lemtongthai exported rhino horn to the Asian black market.
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Samsung Supplies Solar Powered Internet Schools For South Africa
A "exclusively solar-powered, mobile and completely independent classroom "
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Poachers Make Off With the Horn of a Fiberglass Rhino
A thief has stolen the horn from a rhino model at the Lombardini Game Farm in South Africa.
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Can Social Media Save Two Rhinos Left For Dead by Poachers?
2012 is on track to seeing a record number of rhino deaths from poaching -- but conservationists have turned to the internet in hopes of reducing that grim figure by two.
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Rhinos May be Extinct in South Africa by 2015
According to a recent estimate, rhinos will vanish from South African parks by 2015 if current poaching rates continue.
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Primary School Classroom Built Out Of Single Shipping Container
Tsai Design Studio puts 25 kids into a 40 foot steel container. Is this a good thing?
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The Week in Pictures: Sexy Sustainable Lingerie, Valentine's Day Gifts, and More
Sexy eco-friendly lingerie heats things up. We also have our Valentine's Day Gift Guide, extreme yarn bombing, New York Fashion Week, and more.
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Pro Surfer Kyle Thiermann Talks Nuclear Power in South Africa with Kelly Slater, Van Jones, and Foster Gamble
Kyle Thiermann and Surfing for Change discuss nuclear power in South Africa with Kelly Slater, Van Jones and Foster Gamble
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Poachers Have Already Killed Eleven African Rhinos in 2012
It's been just a little over two weeks since the new year began, but it's already shaping up to be another deadly year for South Africa's imperiled rhinos.
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Neat Recycled Paper and Cardboard Interior at South African Design Shop in Buenos Aires
This hip gallery features magazines, gifts, and clothes from South Africa.
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77,000 Year Old Bedding Discovered Within Threatened South African Excavation Site
77,000 year old bedding discovered complete with medicinal herbs discovered in South Africa.
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Solving Climate Change With Agriculture: Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa Launches at COP17
Agro-ecology can provide a solution for global hunger and poverty, climate change, threats to biodiversity, and soil health.
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Improved Cooking Technique Slashes Coal Use. Is Funded Through Carbon Offsets (Video)
Carbon offsets have traditionally gone to technological improvements or reforestation. One group is teaching a different way of cooking. And it's using offset funds for the training.
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Troubling Health Trends Hold Back Progress on Life Expectancy
Although average life expectancy worldwide continues to increase, gains have come more slowly in the last few decades.
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Why "Conflict-Free" Diamonds Are Unreliable: Kimberley Process is "Pandora's Box" of Ethical Issues
It's not exactly breaking news, but this topic is worth a recap. The Kimberley Process was established to prevent diamond sales from funding conflict—"blood diamonds"—but in reality, not a whole lot has changed.
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Thai Sex Workers Enlisted For Rhino-Hunting Scam
Threats against African rhinos have nearly always been despicable, but as authorities crack down on illegal exportation of the animals' horns, the latest methods to usurp the law are downright abhorrent. A former rhino horn dealer
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193 Rhinos Killed in South Africa So Far This Year
2011 is shaping up to be one of the worst years on record for rhinos. Poachers in South Africa have already killed 193 of the animals in the first six months of this year alone -- that's according to conservation group WWF. This
