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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

Critter News

In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency charged Wildlife Services for its illegal placement of a sodium cyanide M-44 (a highly lethal booby trap) on public land, which harmed a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and killed his dog. Tags: fish and wildlife USDA.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ In Europe, the Catch of the Day Is Often Illegal ” (“Empty Seas” series, front page, Jan. Only a vigorous, internationally enforced, decades-long general moratorium on commercial fishing can bring us back from this brink. 15): The appalling commercial demand for seafood will soon exhaust the oceans.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here. An illegal hunter in Atewa Range Forest Reserve with his catch, a Tree Pangolin destined for the bushmeat market.

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