For one hour on Saturday, famous landmarks around the world went dark. The outages weren’t the results of unplanned Eskom load shedding, but for Earth Hour. More than 7,000 cities in 150 countries got in the act of switching off lights for one hour.
Over the past four decades, wildlife populations on Earth have declined by more than 30%, and some species by as much as 70%. The revealing data has prompted conservationists to label Earth as a “planet in crisis”.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos finally issued an apology this morning for the hunting trip he took to Africa recently where he shot live game on a private reserve in Botswana, including elephants. The scandal might never have come to light if he hadn’t had an accident during the trip and had to be taken back to Spain for emergency hip surgery.