Fighting Illegal Wildlife Trade Requires More Funding
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2010
According to this article, the current funds are not sufficient for the work involved. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking. Not surprising.
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Eating Cats and Dogs Could Become Illegal in China
Critter News
JANUARY 28, 2010
You can already read the excuses being cited in this article. Tags: meat cats dogs china. The legislation is only being drafted right now and there's a long way to go I suspect before such laws would pass.
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Europe's Pig Industry Mad about Undercover Investigation
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.) Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness.
Wildlife Crime Unit Established in UK
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Interesting article about the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) in the UK. Consequences of wildlife crime are far reaching, with the profits from the illegal trade of plants and animals used to fund other criminal activities such as drug smuggling and people trafficking. Tags: wildlife crime UK.
Are Thai Temple Tigers Drugged?
Critter News
DECEMBER 20, 2008
There's a big article at the ABC News site. accuses} the temple of illegally trafficking and mistreating the tigers, allegations that the temple emphatically denies. Tags: tigers thailand. Some conservationists worry that the tigers living at a Buddhist Temple in Thailand are drugged, but the monks deny it.
On Bob Herbert and Direct Action
Animal Person
AUGUST 1, 2009
Something interesting happened when I read New York Times columnist Bob Herbert's article about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., While whites use illegal drugs at substantially higher percentages than blacks, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men.
The Feather Thief: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Prized for their feathers, most of the birds that are recovered do not have their tags, the biodata, attached. His dream is to find them still intact, attached to their tags, their biodata. Rist has de-feathered them as part of a black market enterprise.
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