Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather. This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog.
Critter News
JULY 13, 2009
The trade in TCM {Traditional Chinese Medicine} products has also been growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, which has seriously impacted medicinal plant and animal populations, though more than half of plants and animals being used by TCM are from artificial propagation or captive breeding.
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Critter News
APRIL 30, 2010
(Sounds like these guys were orphaned as a result of bushmeat and illegal trafficking activities.) Frankly, with the rate these poor animals are being decimated, I wonder sometimes if they SHOULD be released back into the wild. Tags: wildlife trafficking united nations bush meat congo gorillas.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 14, 2009
I foresee a day, perhaps not far in the future, in which it is illegal to raise cows, pigs, and other animals for food. The ground for this will not be animal welfare, as you might expect, but environmentalism. The natural environment, unlike individual animals, is inanimate, unconscious, and insentient.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal. It is being hunted solely for food, and those who kill them certainly want their meat exported by any criminal channel available.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
In the Far East they keep birds of prey which they use to capture other animals such as foxes and rabbits. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. The introduction of exotic animals has extirpated and continues to threaten hundreds of species. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots.
Critter News
DECEMBER 20, 2008
The temple says the money goes toward caring for the tigers (each animal eats 13 pounds of meat a day) and construction of "Tiger Island," where it is hoped the tigers will soon move to live in larger enclosures.A accuses} the temple of illegally trafficking and mistreating the tigers, allegations that the temple emphatically denies.
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