Critter News
JULY 13, 2009
The trade in TCM {Traditional Chinese Medicine} products has also been growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, which has seriously impacted medicinal plant and animal populations, though more than half of plants and animals being used by TCM are from artificial propagation or captive breeding.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 26, 2014
The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered. Efforts to protect some of the most vulnerable species would be redirected to better protecting the larger swathe of species held in important habitat.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future.
Animal Person
AUGUST 25, 2010
An Animal Person reader wrote me with the following question: There are many species of cichlids in Lake Victoria that are on the verge of extinction, and most are hardy and small enough to be kept in an aquarium. The answer to that question could, for some, be dependent upon whether the endangering is our doing.
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