Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Moon bears are rare, which makes this all the sadder. Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. Tags: taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine bear bile china asia. Again, the China connection. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue.

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Bears Rescue Farming Vietnam 100

10,000 Birds

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. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 180

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Sloth Bear in tall, dry grass, barely 50 metres from us, but all we can see is a dark, shape-shifting shadow that eventually becomes all but invisible. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months.

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