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DNA Bar Codes Could Help Identify Illegal Bush Meat

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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. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangered species.

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Demand for Wildlife Products on the Rise in China

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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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Young Lowland Gorillas Released into Nature Reserve

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(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.

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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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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.

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Are Thai Temple Tigers Drugged?

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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 recent report by wildlife organization, Care for the Wild (CWI).{accuses}

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

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In the case of the acuri, the birds usually eat those kernels that have already fallen to the ground or that have been ruminated by cattle or wild animals, but they eat bocaiuva nuts straight off the bunches hanging from the trees. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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They were still listed as Endangered, but wildlife management measures taken in this park were clearly working. Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. And they both graze grass and browse younger branches and saplings.

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