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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. Over the last two years, authorities have discovered 57 cases of trafficking in wild animals involving more than 7,612 individuals including monkeys and Tibetan bears and elephant tusks.

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Birding Pulau Ubin-Singapore

10,000 Birds

There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. There are plenty of lookouts and shelters, but there is no drinking water available at the toilet facilities, so you need to carry plenty of water.

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Finding an Asian Openbill in Singapore-second ever record!

10,000 Birds

Squirrels, water monitors, lizards, wild boar, macaque monkeys and more had too often stopped us in our tracks when we heard leaves rustling or odd sounds initially! We listened and looked and after almost three weeks in Singapore we were less likely to be tricked into sounds that were not birds!

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