THE DISPROPORTIONATE RATE OF BLACK ON WHITE MURDER IN AMERICA - THE "BLACK LIVES MATTER" MOVEMENT IS BASED ON A FALSE NARRATIVE discredited by statistics - And if whites are to blame for everything, how come African countries have so much racism, inequality, poverty, tribal violence, genocide and corruption?

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New Black Panther Party USA
They demand a separate territory in the South
Two states for two peoples?

The article below by the Wall Street Journal focuses only on blacks living in the United States.   But there is a wider picture - an inconvenient truth.

 

Afro-Americans' claims that white people are to blame for black poverty, high crime, low education, family breakdown, and much more, do not stand to scrutiny. 

The government, major institutions, business, and individual Americans have made extraordinary efforts to give blacks extra opportunities, going as far as discriminating against whites in order to impose affirmative action benefiting Afro-Americans at all levels of society.

 

But there is a wider picture.  And since blacks are racially focused, it is only fair to take a look at how the black race is doing in Africa, where blacks are a majority governed by people of their own color.

 

That reality shows how since independence several decades ago - and in spite of generous and constant financial and technical assistance by the West and the United Nations - African countries continue to sink into a shocking state of corruption, racism, religious intolerance, and both tribal and religious genocidal violence. 

 

Some of the greatest genocides since the end of World War II have occurred in Africa.   Millions of black lives have been destroyed in gruesome and sadistic violence by fellow black Africans.

Two examples:  (1)  In 1966 between 30,000 and 50,000 Igbos were massacred by Hausa-Fulanis in Nigeria. (2)  In 1994 Hutus massacred at least ONE MILLION Tutsis. 

1994 - Rwanda - 1,000,000 murdered
Blacks killing other blacks

Victims of violence in Africa don't usually die from bullet shots.  The weapons are machetes, fire, boiling water. 

Victims are slashed, dismembered, burned alive, and suffer the most unimaginable kind of torture possible. 

Extremely brutal violence goes on to this day in several African countries.  Sudan, Nigeria ...  so many of these nations are permanently in the news due to unresolved tribal or religious conflict and bloodshed.     

The white man rule is long gone from Africa.  But black Africans, as they have done for thousands of years, continue to massacre each other.

 

South Africa is the rape capital of the world.  South Africans persecute and murder migrant workers from other African countries. 

 

Blacks in Zimbabwe and South Africa have been engaged in the torture and murder of thousands of white farmers. 

 

Since 2007, the South African government has denied and covered up the white genocide by not releasing murder statistics according to ethnic groups.  Western governments have remained silent about the problem, reinforcing the campaign of denial.

 

Genocide Watch:  On average at least 50 people are killed daily in South Africa.  20 of them are white.   Since 1994 more than 70,000 white South Africans have been murdered, of which more than 4,000 were commercial farmers. 

http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/White_Genocide_TVA.pdf  (Document contains gruesome images.)

 

Daily Mail 2012:  The murders were so brutal they shocked even South Africa:
-  White couple shot dead, then son aged 12 is drowned in scalding bath.
-  Sobbing child was tied up and gagged before being murdered in bath 'because he could identify them'
-  The three men assaulted the father with a golf club and blade before shooting both adults
-  Family dog had stomach cut open http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179171/Walkerville-family-murders-Horrific-death-boy-12-drowned-boiling-water-robbers-raped-mother.html

 

Recently the New Black Panther Party has declared that they want a separate country in the south of the United States.  Will anyone dare to ask them which black-ruled country do they consider as their model?

 

The Myths of Black Lives Matter

The movement has won over Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. But what if its claims are fiction? 

By Heather Mac Donald
 

Editor’s Note: Originally published Feb. 11, 2016  

KEY POINTS:

• For starters, fatal police shootings make up a much larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths than black homicide deaths. According to the Post database, in 2015 officers killed 662 whites and Hispanics, and 258 blacks.
• Using the 2014 homicide numbers as an approximation of 2015’s, those 662 white and Hispanic victims of police shootings would make up 12% of all white and Hispanic homicide deaths. That is three times the proportion of black deaths that result from police shootings.
• The lower proportion of black deaths due to police shootings can be attributed to the lamentable black-on-black homicide rate.
• There were 6,095 black homicide deaths in 2014—the most recent year for which such data are available—compared with 5,397 homicide deaths for whites and Hispanics combined. Almost all of those black homicide victims had black killers.
• Police officers—of all races—are also disproportionately endangered by black assailants. Over the past decade, according to FBI data, 40% of cop killers have been black. Officers are killed by blacks at a rate 2.5 times higher than the rate at which blacks are killed by police.
• Some may find evidence of police bias in the fact that blacks make up 26% of the police-shooting victims, compared with their 13% representation in the national population. But as residents of poor black neighborhoods know too well, violent crimes are disproportionately committed by blacks.
• According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks were charged with 62% of all robberies, 57% of murders and 45% of assaults in the 75 largest U.S. counties in 2009, though they made up roughly 15% of the population there.
• The Black Lives Matter movement claims that white officers are especially prone to shooting innocent blacks due to racial bias, but this too is a myth.
• A March 2015 Justice Department report on the Philadelphia Police Department found that black and Hispanic officers were much more likely than white officers to shoot blacks based on “threat misperception”—that is, the mistaken belief that a civilian is armed.
• A 2015 study by University of Pennsylvania criminologist Greg Ridgeway, formerly acting director of the National Institute of Justice, found that, at a crime scene where gunfire is involved, black officers in the New York City Police Department were 3.3 times more likely to discharge their weapons than other officers at the scene. 

Continue reading the Wall Street Journal column and related articles

GORILLAS FALLING VICTIM TO EBOLA OUTBREAK TOO - It has had a devastating effect on their populations

August 2014 – AFRICA – One day in 1996, boys from a village in northern Gabon brought home a chimpanzee they found dead in the forest. The villagers butchered it for food. That act set off an Ebola outbreak that killed 21 people, according to the World Health Organization.

 

Years later, on a reporting trip in Gabon, author David Quammen met two men from the village who were there during the outbreak. At the time Ebola was ravaging their village and their families, they noticed something strange. In the forest nearby, 13 gorillas lay dead. Thirteen dead gorillas, 21 dead humans. Plus the chimpanzee the boys found in the forest. All victims of Ebola.

 

For the western lowland gorilla, the toll of Ebola has been devastating.

BRITAIN COVERED IN LAYER OF SAND FROM 2000 MILES AWAY SAHARAN SAND STORMS

Unusual atmospheric conditions have blown up sandstorm from Africa.  Thin layer of dust seen today in areas including Cornwall and London.

Britons woke up this morning to find their homes and cars covered in dust from the Sahara Desert.  Unusual atmospheric conditions have blown up a sandstorm from Africa - and a thin layer of dust was seen today in areas of southern England including Cornwall and Greater London.  The Met Office has forecast a ten out of ten level of air pollution for London for tomorrow and Wednesday, with warnings that the dust will this week cause one of the worst smogs of the year.

 

Read more and see pictures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593311/Britain-covered-layer-dust-storms-carry-sand-Sahara-desert.html

 

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EXTENT OF EBOLA OUTBREAK IN AFRICA "UNPRECENDENTED"

CONAKRY, Guinea -- Health authorities in Guinea are facing an "unprecedented epidemic" of Ebola, an international aid group warned Monday as the death toll from the disease that causes severe bleeding reached 78.

ISRAEL AID TO AFRICAN COUNTRIES - NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED

African countries routinely bash Israel and vote against it at the United Nations.  And yet, Israel has been helping African countries for decades sharing its technology, medicine and other types of aid with an area of the world rampant with disease, poverty, illiteracy and violence.

 

Israel: A light unto (African) nations

By Elder of Ziyon Website
 

If you read the literature from anti-Israel Christians, one of their themes is that Israel is illegitimate because it is acting more like a tyrannical Pharaoh than like a "light unto nations." They are saying that Israel's actions make it illegitimate as a nation since it is not fulfilling its Biblical mandate. (See the essay here by Stephen France, for example.)

This is of course wrong for many reasons. One is that they are saying that Israel falls short of standards that no nation has ever lived up to, but Jews must act to a standard that anti-Israel Christians define and therefore will inevitably fall short.

However, I would submit that Israel is a light unto nations, just people who hate Israel don't want to be bothered with the facts.

The list:

1. Malaria, the most devastating disease in sub-Saharan Africa, claims the life of a child every 30 seconds. Researchers at the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are dedicated to helping Africa wipe out this disease just as Israel did in the 1940s.

In December 2013, the university’s Hadassah Braun School of Public Health hosted an international conference of malaria experts to formulate a new strategy for African nations. Representatives from Gabon and Zanzibar were there to see what conclusions they could bring back home, where anti-malaria efforts have been only partially successful.

2. In 2011, a team of Israeli neonatologists went to Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city, to train local doctors and nurses in advanced, low-cost methods to address the city’s high infant mortality rate. The doctors, sent by the Alliance for Global Good in cooperation with MASHAV, also established two new neonatal units in Kumasi’s sole hospital.

 3. An Israeli-built emergency room at Kisumu East District Hospital in Kenya was put together in less than a month by Israeli engineers and medical specialists in 2011. It is the hospital’s first fully-equipped ER and serves a region of six million people.

 4. Israel has been instrumental in the drive to provide voluntary circumcision to African men as a proven method to reduce the risk of contracting HIV infection.

A circumcision clinic for Zulu men set up in 2011 by Israeli doctors in the AIDS-stricken province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has treated thousands of men. PrePex, a non-surgical circumcision device from Israel’s Circ MedTech, was prequalified last summer by the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in 14 African nations with high rates of new HIV infections.

 5. Nurse-educators at Jerusalem’s Herzog Hospital lead videoconference classes for healthcare personnel at a Christian hospital in rural Ghana in topics such as diabetes prevention and treatment. The live-streaming video setup was donated by Rotary International’s Jerusalem chapter and a partner chapter in Windsor, Ontario (Canada). Diabetes has been dramatically increasing in Africa, with four million cases in Ghana and rising.

6. The Israeli nonprofit Eye from Zion brings Israeli ophthalmologists to volunteer their expertise in developing countries including Ethiopia. In 2012, they performed 160 free cataract surgeries in a portable operation room donated by Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. One patient, a 10-year-old Ethiopian girl, was later brought to Israel for lifesaving eye surgery.
 
7. For the past six years, Prof. Zvi Bentwich of the Center for Emerging Tropical Diseases and AIDS at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has been working toward ridding Ethiopia of common parasitic infestations that contribute to AIDS, tuberculosis epidemics and other serious health problems particularly in children. Israelis in his NALA Foundation distribute anti-worm tablets and educate hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians on prevention.
 
8. Israel is planning to build a model agricultural village in South Sudan to teach local farmers how Israel’s breakthrough agricultural methods and technologies can help the fledgling African nation boost its vegetable output. The idea took shape when former Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon met South Sudan Minister of Agriculture Betty Ogwaro at the Agritech 2012 expo in Tel Aviv.
 
9. GrainPro markets a simple, inexpensive product developed by Prof. Shlomo Navarro in Israel, intended to help farmers keep their grain market-fresh by sealing out water and air. About 50 percent of every grain and pulse harvest in the developing world is lost to pests and mold, but the GrainPro bags are bringing that number down in Africa and Asia.
 
10.In 2012, the Foreign Ministry signed a cooperation agreement with Kenya and Germany to bring advanced Israeli fish-farming technologies and training to aid the millions of Ugandans, Kenyans and Tanzanians whose livelihoods depend on the catch from Lake Victoria. Back in 2009, Hebrew University Prof. Berta Sivan spearheaded a multiyear project to reintroduce nutritious carp to Ugandan fish farms on the lake.  

11. After fighting the oil industry, 20,000 Nigerian “rebels” received free land for developing farms. But where could they learn agricultural and farm management skills? At the Galilee International Management Institute in northern Israel, a nonprofit institution that has trained cohorts of Nigerians in many different skills over the past 20 years. In 2011, one-month agricultural training courses were devised for several groups of former rebels.
 
12. When the Central Bank of Kenya sought a partner to do an eight-month training program for students in the Kenya School of Monetary Studies, they turned to Israel’s Galilee International Management Institute. That’s because many Kenyan bank managers were already graduates of its twice-yearly program in international banking management. The 2012 program also provided in-depth analysis services that helped the bank formulate better policies on pensions, training and human resources management.

13. The Israeli company Nova Lumos devised small mobile solar systems for Africans to charge phones, lights or small appliances – paid for in affordable increments. This solution eliminates so-called “power pimps” who charge fellow rural Africans exorbitant prices for the privilege of charging their phones. The system provides access to green energy, a practical off-grid solution and a good business opportunity for African mobile providers.

 14. A similar model for small business has been introduced to residents of rural villages in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda and South Africa by Innovation: Africa , an award-winning non-profit project founded by Sivan Ya’ari to use sustainable Israeli technologies to improve lives in developing African nations.
 
15. Following a gas-line explosion in September 2011 that sent more than 100 Kenyans to Kenyatta National Hospital with burns, Israel sent 360 kilograms of supplies including bandaging equipment, infusion sets, ointments and painkillers. The aid package was coordinated through the Israeli ambassador to Kenya and MASHAV.
 
16. An advanced mobile app for emergency responders developed by Israel’s NowForce was adopted last year by Nigeria to dispatch and coordinate police, firefighters and other public-safety agencies. It locates and alerts individual team members wherever they are. Like many African nations, Nigeria has more mobile than land lines.
 
17. An IsraAID team went to South Sudan in 2012 to inaugurate a social-worker training program on sexual violence in cooperation with the Israeli NGOs FIRST and Operation Blessing-Israel. Counselors from Confident Children out of Conflict, an organization that provides a safe house for more than 400 abused, abandoned or at-risk girls from the South Sudan slums of Juba, learned to identify and address gender-based violence such as rape and forced marriage.
 
18. The Kenya Ministry of Education sought MASHAV’s help in promoting and implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) in Kenya. The Institute for Education for Sustainable Development at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem developed the curriculum, and teacher training sessions were held in Kenya and in Israel.

The first ESD project launched in August 2013 at the Joel Omino Mixed Secondary School, where children are learning technology and physics through water purification; science through organic agriculture; economics and entrepreneurship through establishing an organic bakery; history and traditional society by building traditional Luo-tribe houses; and conservation by utilizing recycled materials for art work. Demonstration centers will be set up to serve as training sites for other schools throughout Kenya.
 
19. Jerusalem science teacher Amir Yechieli began a small company, Yuval Mayim, to build rainwater catchment systems on school rooftops to conserve and reuse the water. Last year, he flew to Kenya to help build a similar system for some 600 villagers without running water. The Jewish National Fund gave him money to develop a rainwater catchment system at Kampala University in Uganda, where he expects to halve the monthly $15,000 water bills.
 
20. Energiya Global, the Israeli affiliate of Gigawatt Global Coöperatief, recently secured $23 million in financing and about $710,000 in grants for an 8.5-megawatt solar energy plant in Rwanda. This will be East Africa’s first utility-scale solar field, and is expected to supply eight percent of the country’s energy needs.
 
21. Israel’s Paulee CleanTec was hailed at the World Toilet Summit in South Africa in 2012 for its revolutionary toilet that needs no water and leaves no waste. The World Toilet Organization reports that one in three South African households lacks access to proper sanitation and 40 percent of households globally face the same problem.

22. Former Israeli diplomat Ornit Avidar is taking Israel’s “soft” water solutions — decentralized, simple to use and maintain, consuming little energy — and applying them all around Africa through her company Waterways, a channel for Africans to access Israeli technology.

Among the Israeli partner companies she is introducing to various African countries are SunDWater, which cleans water in off-grid locations using condensation made from solar rays; water resources management company Tahal and Anyway Solutions, a global leader in providing soil stabilization products to the infrastructure and development sectors.

 

To the haters, this is not merely irrelevant - it is vital that such news be minimized or ignored. The haters invariably pretend that hundreds of projects like these do not reflect well on Israel but in fact are evil themselves, as they are meant to whitewash Israel's supposed crimes, which is its main reason for existence.

In reality, the true evil lies in the hearts of the haters. Even Christians who pretend that they are demonizing Israel out of their abundant love.
 Source - http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/03/israel-light-unto-african-nations.html#.UxUBssqPKM8

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TWO DOGS BEFRIEND BABY HIPPO

Two dogs and their one big pal, Douglas the little hippo: Trio form unlikely friendship at wildlife rescue park after baby was abandoned at just two weeks

• The baby hippo was abandoned by his mother at just two-weeks-old by the Conservation Lower Zambezi in Zambia.
• Perfectly happy for terriers Molly and Coco to give him a friendly sniff
• He will stay at wildlife park until big enough to be released into the wild
• Although just weeks old, it took six men to carry Douglas out of the plane 

Douglas, the hippo, appears perfectly content with his friends terriers Molly and Coco.

 

 

To adopt Douglas the hippo and to help fund his care, visit www.bornfree.org.uk or phone www.bornfree.org.uk
 

Read more about Douglas, Molly and Coco and see their pictures
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551855/Two-dogs-one-big-pal-Douglas-little-hippo-Trio-form-unlikely-friendship-wildlife-rescue-park-baby-abandoned-just-two-weeks.html

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OCCUPATION IS THE BEST SOLUTION, AGREE WHITE HOUSE AND CONGRESS - IF THE OCCUPIER IS AN ARAB COUNTRY

FROM ELDER OF ZIYON WEBSITE:

 

Congress and White House agree: occupation is the best solution

Did you know that the US wholeheartedly supports the occupation?

 

Often forgotten among the current crises in the Middle East and North Africa, the unresolved territorial dispute over the Western Sahara has continued to impede closer cooperation among the countries of North Africa for more than 35 years. Approximately the size of Colorado, the territory is administered by the Government of Morocco and contested by a group known as the Polisario Front that operates refugee camps of between 35,000 and 90,000 people near Tindouf, Algeria. 

US TO TRAIN LIBYA'S ARMY - RISKING INCLUDING ISLAMISTS AMONG THEM

The US government's aim is to help stabilize Libya, an oil-rich country. 

 

Since the ouster of Muammar Gadhafi in 2011, Libya has had a weak government in a region dominated by Islamist militias ranging from al Qaeda affiliates to Islamists that do not support al Qaeda.

The U.S. military is preparing to conduct military and special operations training for Libya’s military and the training will risk including Islamist terrorists among the trainees, according to the commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command.

 

Adm. William McRaven, the commander who helped lead the covert raid to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, said in a brief interview Saturday that the counterterrorism training operation has not begun. “We’re in the early stages,” he told the Free Beacon.

 

“We are going to have to assume some risks,” McRaven said. “Right now we have the authorities to do that training, and I think as a country we have to say there is probably some risk that some of the people we will be training with do not have the most clean records, but at the end of the day it is the best solution we can find to train them to deal with their own problems.”

 

McRaven said the training would include a “very, very thorough review” of the Libyans who will take part.

Read more - http://freebeacon.com/u-s-to-train-libyan-military-including-islamists/


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TRUST NO ONE - TEACHERS, CLERGYMEN, DOCTORS, POLICE OFFICERS AMONG HUNDREDS CAUGHT IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY RING

 

76 Americans busted in massive global child porn ring including police officers, teachers and doctors as nearly 400 children are rescued.

 

Police said 108 people were arrested in Canada, 76 in the U.S and 164 in countries from Spain to South Africa and Australia. 

 

Forty school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, and more than 30 people who volunteered with kids were among those taken into custody.
 

Three-year Project Spade operation spearheaded by Canadian authorities netted 348 suspects around the world

Police arrested 108 Canadians, 76 Americans and 164 residents of other countries in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia, 

Youth baseball coach in Washington state allegedly made more than 500 films

Brian Way, 42, owner of Azov Films, accused of distributing videos of naked boys from 5 to 12 years of age

More than 350,000 images and over 9,000 videos of graphic child sexual abuse were seized

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507459/Global-child-porn-ring-busted-leading-rescue-nearly-400-children.html


RELATED

Pedophiles want to get their deviance legalized to avoid criminal charges

http://mobile.wnd.com/2013/10/lefts-new-crusade-adult-kid-sex/
http://intellihub.com/2013/11/16/parents-beware-pedophiles-avoiding-criminal-charges-with-legal-loophole/

Deviants and sociopaths teaching our children -
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/teacher-sentenced-for-spoon-feeding-his-semen-to-blindfolded-elementary-school-children_112013

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While children who defy authority - even in an act of self-protection - are classified as mentally ill,  It's called Oppositional Defiant Disorder:  refusal to comply with adult requests, always questioning rules, refusing to follow rules.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/mental_health_disorders/oppositional_defiant_disorder_90,P02573/
 
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GENITAL MUTILATION OF 5 WEEK OLD GIRL IN BRITAIN - CASES ARE NEVER PROSECUTED

Police officers in London have arrested two people over the genital mutilation of a baby girl, it has been reported.

 

The alleged criminals live in Britain and the baby is believed to have been mutilated at five to six weeks old - believed to be the youngest case reported.

 

Female genital mutilation involves the cutting or removal of female sexual tissue and has been illegal in the UK since 1985.

 

However, because a culture of secrecy surrounds the procedure, no one in the UK has ever been prosecuted for the crime, but officers hope this case could lead to the first.

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507216/Two-people-arrested-Met-detectives-genital-mutilation-baby-girl-months-old.html


RELATED

More than 1,500 women victims of genital mutilation in shock statistics compiled by ONE hospital in Britain.  Karen Lewis, a midwife at St George's Hospital in Tooting, South London, warned that some staff  were fearful of getting involved because they saw the backstreet operations as a cultural issue, rather than abuse.

 

She said: 'The women we see have often faced years of pain and suffer flashbacks and other psychological problems.  Some of them are also terrified of childbirth because of what's happened to them in the past.''   Some of them also don't realise that FGM is wrong and are quite horrified when we tell them.

 

About genital mutilation

 

Female genital mutilation, or FGM, is a common practice among some Muslim communities across the middle of Africa, including Somalia, Eritrea, North Sudan and central Mali.

 

It is also present in Muslim communities in Indonesia, Oman, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates, among others.

 

The operation involves cutting or removing female sexual tissue. It can also involve stitching using silk thread or catgut.

 

The process is supposed to cleanse the woman of sexual impurity and victims can spend up to 40 days bound from the waist down while healing.

 

The operation is usually performed on children or young girls before entering adolescence, though ages vary from community to community.

 

Given that most surgeries are performed by untrained women, commonly Aunts of the girls or village matrons, risks include infection, pain, sterility, and death due to blood loss.  Due to the nature of the wounds, problems can occur later during childbirth.

 

While the practice has been illegal in the UK since 1985, there have so far been no prosecutions due in part to victim's reluctance to come forward, and also because some women do not recognise it as a crime.

 

The practice is also specifically outlawed in Belgium, Sweden and some US states.  In Africa several nations, including Somalia, have made declarations against the practice though across the continent legislation is patchy and difficult to enforce.

 

Read more - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424556/More-1-500-women-victims-genital-mutiliation-shock-statistics-compiled-ONE-hospital--Somalia.html

 

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AFRICA'S WESTERN BLACK RHINO OFFICIALLY DECLARED EXTINCT

Poaching of rhinos is fueled by Asian market demand.  Asians use rhino parts for traditional medicine.  The actual poaching is done by highly organized gangs.  

The same Asian belief in animal medicinal attributes is also driving tiger populations to extinction. 

And the Asian ivory market is behind the frequent massacres of elephants who are killed only for their tusks.

 

Africa’s western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world’s largest conservation network.

 

The subspecies of the black rhino — which is classified as “critically endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species — was last seen in western Africa in 2006.

 

The IUCN warns that other rhinos could follow saying Africa’s northern white rhino is “teetering on the brink of extinction” while Asia’s Javan rhino is “making its last stand” due to continued poaching and lack of conservation.

 

“In the case of the western black rhino and the northern white rhino the situation could have had very different results if the suggested conservation measures had been implemented,” Simon Stuart, chair of the IUCN species survival commission said in a statement.

Read more - http://science.time.com/2013/11/06/western-black-rhino-declared-extinct/

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November 2013:  British Paratroopers in Kenya to train local rangers who are battling against increasingly militarised poachers. 
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/01/british-army-elephant-rhino-poaching-kenya


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LIONESS HUGS MAN WHO SAVED HER

 

The extraordinary bond between conservationist Mikkel Legarth and the lioness he once saved from almost certain death can be summed up in one picture that has gone viral. 

 

In the image, Legarth, who founded the Modisa Wildlife Project in Botswana with fellow animal lover Valentin Gruener, is seen hugging Sirga, a 110-pound lioness who had been abandoned as a cub.

 

"A pride had three cubs and two were killed before Sirga was abandoned without food," Legarth told Caters News Agency. "It happened on our land and we could not stand by and watch her die."

 

It was in February of last year that Legarth and Gruener took Sirga in. The animal had been severely dehydrated at the time, according to a 2012 post on the Modisa Wildlife Project's blog, but the duo nursed her back to health.

 

"We believe that she is probably the most spoiled and well-fed lion you can find in Botswana," Legarth wrote in the post. "We made her milk from scratch -- fresh eggs, cream, milk, vitamins, sunflower oil and calcium -- [a] luxurious meal for a little lion. Now she is too old for milk, but we are still making sure to cut the best pieces of meat for her."

 

Sirga's surrogate parents say that the lioness -- who interacts only with Legarth and Gruener to prevent excessive human contact -- is given plenty of space to roam and hunt in her natural habitat.

 

Legarth and Gruener, who are from Denmark and Germany, respectively, founded the Modisa Wildlife Project in 2012. Meaning "guardian" in Seswana, a local language in central Botswana, Modisa is dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the Kalahari ecosystem, according to the group's website.

 

See picture and video  - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/05/lioness-hug-mikkel-legarth-sirga_n_4214959.html

More pictures here - http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/lioness-love-an-extraordinary-bond-/15790/


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