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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. Indeed, the proposal to up-list four southern African populations to Appendix I could well have opened a back door to illegal international trade.”.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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India, February 2013. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low.

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