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China Calls for Tiger Protection

Critter News

India’s newfound partnership with China on environment issues has yielded results in the area of tiger protection as well. What kind of protection do they really mean? You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." From the Economic Times (part of the India Times, I think).

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Shortage of Donkeys in Africa

Reddit Animals

Donkey skins have long been coveted in China for their use in traditional medicines and luxury beauty products, which became more mainstream as incomes rose in the country.

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Birding Shanghai in May

10,000 Birds

Little Ringed Plovers are fiercely protective of their cute chicks. Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. Black-crowned Night Heron. Little Egrets are busy bickering inside their nest. Meanwhile, Little Grebes are still in a slightly earlier phase.

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2010 Declared the Year of the Tiger.So What?

Critter News

When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point? China is the single biggest threat to the tiger and it won't participate seriously in its protection. I say so what? It's just lip service. It's just fuzzy wuzzies and PR.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

For the Chinese New Year 2022 holidays, my girlfriend and I decided to visit the remote areas of Guangxi in the South of China, at the border to Vietnam. At that time, China was strictly applying the zero COVID-19 policy. Most of them were living on non-mechanized farming, which is limited to the few flat areas between the mountains.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. Running time: 12 Minutes.