Critter News

MARCH 13, 2010

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or Cites that opened in the Qatari capital on Saturday will be discussing 42 proposals during the next two weeks. Australia and Japan are among the countries refusing to back a total ban. Tags: australia CITES marine life marine animals Japan. From Al Jazeera.

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Marine Life Agenda Polar Bears Monaco 100

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. The way I see it, it is a cruel joke leading towards the extinction of a threatened species. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind. One may say so.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 199

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FEBRUARY 12, 2012

However my ‘twitch’ pales in comparison with the big twitch undergone by a couple of Brit birders in recent days who headed out to Japan on a 5814 mile twitch (and that was just to get there!) for a drake Baer’s Pochard.

Ireland 156

Ireland Iceland Japan Endangered Species 156

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). I just need to get me to Japan. by Jonathan C.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 146