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.
100 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. Its eight officers cover the whole of the UK.
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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. Some conservationists worry that the tigers living at a Buddhist Temple in Thailand are drugged, but the monks deny it. Read it and tell us what you think.
The Falcon Thief: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. The progression could be said to echo that of an earlier book about an obsessive nature criminal, The Orchard Thief by Susan Orlean, which started out as an article in The New Yorker.). 2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer. photo credit: Cordula Krämer).
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