There has recently been a sad report from the BBC about the amount of Band Aid money that was subverted to buy guns. Sir Bob Geldorf responded angrily that there was not a shred of proof that any was spent. I well remember at the time hearing through the expat grapevine of large amounts of [...]
It is very easy to think that captive breeding, whether by zoos or individuals, is a solution to saving a species. In practice, it rarely works. There is always a good reason that a species has become extinct in an area, and unless you can resolve that reason, the new animals introduced will die for [...]