anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Jun 30, 2025

Starting 1st July 2025! 🙌 #Switzerland is implementing mandatory labelling on animal-based food products, including #meat, #milk, and #eggs, to disclose if animals experienced painful procedures without anaesthesia.

This includes practices like #castration #dehorning, #TailDocking, and #TeethClipping.

We applaud this introduction, as #consumers have a right to more transparency about the cruel processes to make more informed and #ethical choices.

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💧🌏 Greg CocksJun 19, 2025
Colluding Rhino Poachers Exploit Space–Time Variation In Opportunity And Risk
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https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13106 <-- shared paper
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“[R]esearch analysing over 500 rhino poaching incidents and exploring what these patterns reveal about the behaviours of poachers, rangers, and rhinos. [Their] study highlights concerning evidence of criminal syndicate infiltration, space–time targeting by poachers, and how behavioural insights can inform effective responses—from targeted dehorning to bolstering ranger resilience…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #wildlifeconservation #wildlife #conservation #statistics #geostatistics #rhino #rhinohorn #rhinoceros #poaching #rangers #criminal #syndicate #mafia #criminalsyndicate #activity #crime #illegal #behaviour #dehorning #rangerstation #protection #humanimpacts #ecosystem #habitat #deterrencetheory #deterrence #methodology #tourist #tourism #reserve #spatiotemporal #opportunity #risk #hazard #riskassessment #Africa #SouthAfrica #alldataisspatial
@Sabi Sand Nature Reserve
PNASAug 9, 2023

Vanessa Duthé from the Université de Neuchâtel explains how #dehorning affects the behavior of #blackrhinos in the latest Science Sessions episode. #AnimalBehavior #EndangeredSpecies #Poaching

🎧 Listen now: https://www.pnas.org/post/podcast/dehorning-affects-rhino-behavior