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Sobering Tiger Statistics

Critter News

Reduced to Skin and Bones (PDF, 4 MB) shows that from January 2000 to April 2010, parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 Tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range countries—or an average of 104 to 119 animals per year. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china endangered species.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

” This lengthy essay was originally published in The New Yorker (“in somewhat different form,” as the “Credits” section says) in 2005 and can also be found in Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (FSG, 2010).

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We start with Lendrum being arrested in 2010 at the Birmingham (U.K.) He interviews breeders about rumors of raptor trafficking and egg smuggling, activities that have supposedly been stopped. Author Joshua Hammer. photo credit: Cordula Krämer). The book is structured cinematically. And, it’s here where that story ends.

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