Critter News

JULY 20, 2009

Organized crime is also heavily involved in trafficking of rhino products and other endangered species'. This statement in the USA Today article says it all. It's the highest rate in 15 years, with an increasing market in Asian traditional medicines.

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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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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.

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Tigers Illegal Trafficking Thailand Trafficking 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

I would also love to have more documentation of the many books, articles, research points, and stories that Dunn relates, at the very least a list of sources. The latter is a feature that probably only a birder would love, and Jon Dunn tells us from the beginning that he is not a lister (the exception being his home in the Shetland Islands).

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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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

She says in her Introduction that she was inspired to compile this collection by a much earlier essay, an article by E.B. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American. Press, 2011). White about Edward Howe Forbush entitled “ Mr. Forbush’s Friends, ” published in The New Yorker in 1966.

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