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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. Indeed, the proposal to up-list four southern African populations to Appendix I could well have opened a back door to illegal international trade.”. One may say so.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The Sacramento River NWR was established 1989 by the authority provided under the Endangered Species Act, Emergency Wetlands Resources Act, and the Fish and Wildlife Act. Units are located along both sides of the river and serve to protect and provide a wide variety of riparian habitats for birds, fish, and other wildlife.”

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. If they can survive next to such neigbours, how come they are endangered? According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural.

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