littlemiss: shootingstaaarr: Rhino poaching has increased 2000% in 3 years. Africa’s rhinos face their worst poaching crisis in decades with sophisticated organized crime syndicates killing more than 800 animals in the past three years, conservationists said yesterday. The two horns on each rhinoceros sell for high prices on the black market in South-east Asia, where they are believed to have medicinal properties. Vietnam, where the horn is ground down for medicines, is repeatedly implicated in the South African poaching trade. The Swiss-based International Union for Conservation of Nature said poaching of the two different species of African rhinos is on the rise in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. South Africa alone lost 333 rhinos last year and has lost more than 70 this year so far, according to IUCN. (Source) This is so horrible and disgusting! :( This must stop NOW.

As we think of Egypt and their stand for freedom, Wolfgang Gartner’s new video gives a quick history lesson into the injustice, oppression and corruption here in America. 

Wolfgang Gartner - Illmerica (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from house selections on Vimeo.

Not a ploy to push a certain “Agenda”. Just an in your face approach to say stop being hypocritical, stop showing prejudice, stop being biased, stop pointing fingers in an attempt to blame issues on a certain group of people, when you may damn well be the cause of it. Stop Hate. FckH8.

FCKH8.com Straight Talk About Gay Marriage from FCKH8.com on Vimeo.

Related: Kenna Climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro

Kenna along with a group of global influencers are planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa to raise awareness of the clean water crisis. Reported participants include Justin Timberlake and Lupe Fiasco. Check out www.summitonthesummit.com for more info.

The Dirt Po(or)ster Piece

Pretty interesting method the artist took to design this. Check it out here:

http://www.rolandtiangco.com/index.php?/project/drt-poster/

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Part of the fauxreel Unaddressed Project.

Funny but alarming video on America’s fixation with America. Maybe entertainment’s and the media’s placement of the word ‘America’ has something to do with our lack of interest in other countries needs.

Here are pictures of the first and only skate park in Kitintale, a working class suburb of Kampala in East Africa. The kids of Kitintale were influenced by a game they saw on TV and decided to build a skatepark themselves. With no assistance from government or large NGO’s, kids from Uganda took significant steps to overcome boredom and poverty through skateboarding. By learning how to skate, the kids developped a sense of belonging to a community and realized a dream.

Click here to see all the pics: Yann Gross

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Here’s images from some of the devastating living conditions that are present around the world. Click here to see all the pictures: India, Greece, China, Australia, Phillipines, Kosovo, Bangladesh

Volunteers try to clear a dam which is filled with discarded plastic bottles and other garbage, blocking Vacha Dam, near the town of Krichim on April 25, 2009.

A man collecting dead fish in Guanqiao Lake in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province, which died due to the polluted lake water and the sizzling weather in the city.

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