10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

When I last visited the town almost 10 years ago, it had a Wild West feel, and Wikipedia claims that it is “an important location for trade with Myanmar, in both legal and illegal goods and services” but it seemed pretty tame to me this time.

Myanmar 169

Myanmar Sri Lanka Nepal Birds 169

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

Elephants 180

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

No matter how much we do to protect the breeding grounds of Neotropical migrants, we can’t assure the safety of those species that lose essential wintering habitat. Protecting even the most range-limited species sometimes requires that we look well beyond our respective borders.

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Dominican Republic Haiti Pythons illegal 170

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law? Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangered species. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather.

Meat 100

Meat illegal Trafficking Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

Number 33, Parabolic reflector, 1888, for example, starts with the invention of the reflector by a German physicist and broadens into the early history of wildlife sound recording technology. Bird blogging owes its existence to an MIT Media lab page called Open Diary (no. Number 57, Great Northern? 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no.

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Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 172