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Artist Sentenced for Wildlife Trafficking

10,000 Birds

Artist Enrique Gomez De Molina was sentenced to 20 months in prison and a $6,000 fine in Miami on Friday for trafficking in illegal and threatened wildlife. “In promoting that message, he fell grievously from doing things the right way and became one of the very people he tried to educate,” Kuehne said.

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Organizations Putting Animals First

4 The Love Of Animals

Thankfully, there are some organizations out there that make it their business to look after and care for our animal counterparts. Proving that society’s conscience hasn’t been completely compromised, these companies and their employees make it a point to put animals first. Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

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China Calls for Tiger Protection

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whether it be animal rights or human rights. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue. What kind of protection do they really mean? You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." I'm too, too cynical.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

Elizabeth Bradfield’s “Buried Birds” muses on seabirds as a way of understanding feelings of difference, giving one of the book’s finest quotes: “We resonate with certain animals, I believe, because they are physical embodiment of an answer we are seeking. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ. Press, 2020, 304p.

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The Irony of The Girl Effect

Animal Person

Human slavery, of course. The central message of the program was not about enslaving animals, of course. But each time Oprah or a guest mentioned a statistic, and the audience was appropriately surprised and disgusted by that statistic, a statistic about animals quickly popped into my mind. But the cow part? Sex slavery.

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