An international animal welfare organisation has launched a campaign calling on travel website TripAdvisor to stop promoting and selling tickets to wildlife tourist attractions that it says are cruel to animals. Comments of Scorpion Foundation Senior Investigator, Marison Guciano is also included inside this report.
Posted on 16:37 April 26th, 2016 Read more...
The selfie culture has become a worldwide phenomenon over the last decade, fueled by a narcissistic need for people to share every second of their life on social media. Coupled with a sense of self-entitlement and a complete lack of awareness, this has led to increasingly irresponsible travel behavior in the form of animal selfies, which contribute to wildlife exploitation and animal abuse on a global scale.
Posted on 16:25 April 26th, 2016 Read more...
Scorpion Foundation today sends another report to the head of the Natural Resource Conservation Agency (BKSDA) Jakarta reporting illegal wildlife traffic in Pramuka wildlife market. The the wildlife entered Jakarta without transport permit from BKSDA office where the wildlife came from.
Posted on 14:48 April 26th, 2016 Read more...
Scorpion Foundation insists Director of Biodiversity Conservation at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) to rescue 4 orangutans from Kasang Kulim zoo near Pekanbaru, Riau Province in Sumatra.
Posted on 15:46 April 25th, 2016 Read more...
Scorpion Foundation insisted the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) Jakarta to enforce Forestry Minister decree Number 447/Kpts-II/2013 concerning the Administration Directive of Harvest and Capture and Distribution of the Specimens of Wild Plant and Animal Species. According this Ministerial decree, transportation of wildlife in Indonesia must be done with domestic transportation permit (SATS-DN). Without SATS-DN, transportation of wildlife is illegal.
Posted on 20:27 April 22nd, 2016 Read more...
The Non-Government Organisation, Scorpion Foundation congratulates the serious action of government law enforcement agencies from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the Indonesian Police Headquarters in busting trade of orangutan skulls in Singkawang, West Kalimantan province of Indonesia.
Posted on 17:04 April 22nd, 2016 Read more...