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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

Critter News

Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. A WCS study conducted at 200 restaurants in the central region found they consumed nearly 2 million wild animals per year.

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

10,000 Birds

Back on dirt tracks by a Desert Wheatear decorated bush (bellow), to spot five or six Wild boars disappearing among the bushes. Next comes the White-footed desert fox, Vulpes v. pusilla , limping into cover with an injured leg, to be replaced by one handsome Hoopoe of the subcontinent race U. ceylonensis.

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