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Tiger Farms in China

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The BBC has an article about the spreading practice of "farming" tigers. Tags: tigers china.

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China Calls for Tiger Protection

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India’s newfound partnership with China on environment issues has yielded results in the area of tiger protection as well. You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I'm too, too cynical.

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Tiger Abuse at Chinese Zoos

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It is an irony not lost on the Chinese public that the Year of the Tiger has not been good for the big cats. On Tuesday, state media reported that dozens of tigers and other endangered animals had died of malnutrition over the past two years at the Northern Forest Zoo in the Chinese city of Harbin.

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Food

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That makes me a bit of an oddity here in China, where people share photos of their meals online and spend (by my rough estimate) about half of their lifetime talking and thinking about what to eat next. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside. Tiger Shrike. Black-capped Kingfisher. Very easy work. Cattle Egret.

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India Reaches Out to Neighbors to Save Tigers

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They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits. Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.

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Birding Shanghai in May

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A Tiger Shrike – as always – looks very stylish. Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible.

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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The year has started well with 10 new birds from India, China, Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica. 12 beats birded 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, Brazil, China, India, Serbia, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico), submitting 187 lists and spotting 902 birds. Pench Tiger Reserve–Turia Zone. The life lists stands at 3964.

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