Episode 30 - The Weekly News 03-24-2021

According to Peter’s editorial this week in RhinoReview.org, animals are provably worth more alive than dead - throwing a spanner in the works of consumptive use economic arguments. World Bank sees the potential of a conservation economy as it launches its first wildlife bond designed to protect the endangered black rhino in South Africa.Great news in Kenya as Ol Pejeta announces birth of white rhino calf.Nepal begins first census since 2015 of their one-horned rhino population.China opens first polar bear hotel. Sign the petition to bring this obscene animal cruelty to an end.International concern is mounting as Recon Africa, the morally bankrupt Canadian oil company, advances its drilling in Namibia and Botswana and silences indigenous communities in their path.Poaching on the rise in Africa and India with more tigers poached for the illegal wildlife trade.