Critter News

JANUARY 14, 2010

Shea said by telephone from China today. That's what we're doing in China. Tags: canada. Of course, we're disappointed in their actions," Ms. That being said, there are many other markets out there. We're trying to expand on the market that's here." Maybe they can start trading them for bear gall bladders and tiger parts.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

The UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting in Geneva voted in favour of China becoming a licensed importer. It will allow China to bid for more than 100 tonnes of ivory stockpiled in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe through culling and natural deaths.

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JULY 13, 2009

From the China Daily. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China. Tags: wildlife smuggling Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers exotic meat china endangered species. The Chinese want them for exotic foods and for medicine. Up to 20 percent of these are now considered threatened.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Here is an interesting article about research out of Sweden that suggests that all domesticated dogs may have originated from China. Tags: china. That is the proposal of a team of geneticists led by Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Here is the letter: I’ve just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall. Make a donation to help IFAW end dog culls in China and to protect animals around the world from similar cruelty.

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Critter News

JANUARY 28, 2010

Tags: meat cats dogs china. The legislation is only being drafted right now and there's a long way to go I suspect before such laws would pass. You can already read the excuses being cited in this article.

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Critter News

AUGUST 22, 2008

Tags: Beijing Olympics china. This is why I want NOTHING to do with the Beijing Olympics.and, no, it's not just about the animals. I'll be glad when this marketing blitz is over. Then the American sponsors will be happy and we can get back to normal.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty china monkeys. If only they could have escaped to a better life.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats. He often has insight into why something might be different in action than what I think in theory when it comes to China. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink. What do you think?

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Tags: zoos taiwan tigers lion endangered species. We are urging the Council of Agriculture (COA) to seize the two cubs immediately and bring Huang to real justice. A fine of NT$50,000 is a mere slap on the wrist, " said Lin Tai-jing, an EAST researcher.

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2010

They recently moved into China two years ago where they established a toxicology and drug-testing facility in Shanghai. I'm not surprised Charles River wants to move into China. The USDA here may be sadly wanting in its animal welfare oversight, but it is heaven compared to the vaccuum in China.

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Critter News

MARCH 25, 2010

It's unfortunate, but true, thanks primarily to Japan and China. Tags: CITES marine animals Japan china endangered species. The opening line in this USA Today article says it all, "Every proposal to protect marine species at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species meeting in Doha, Qatar was voted down."

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MARCH 23, 2010

China, by far the world’s largest consumer of the cartilaginous fish, for sharkfin soup, and Japan, which has battled to keep the convention from being extended to any marine species, led the opposition. Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan china endangered species. This really sucks. According to the New York Times.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Of the 11, India, China and Nepal ranked highest in the number of tiger part seizures, the report states, with India by far the highest number of Tiger part seizures at 276, representing between 469 and 533 Tigers. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china endangered species.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

Some of the migratory shorebirds will make a stopover in the Mai Po Nature Reserve and the Deep Bay area of Hong Kong, China. Another useful website in China is here. Once again these tiny 5 gram satellite tags were deployed and since 2011 they have tracked the incredible journeys of several Cuckoos.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Again, the China connection. Tags: taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine bear bile china asia. Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue. They are an amazing organization that we support financially.).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

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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JUNE 13, 2009

The load included 173 bear paws, one python skin and the carcass of a pangolin — a type of sticky-tongued, toothless, nocturnal anteater that is a menu item in southern China. Bear paws are also considered a delicacy in southern China where exotic animals are favored by diners despite the impact on populations of endangered species.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Only from China could you get TWO atrocities in one. Tags: fur china food. Not only did tainted milk kill 1,500 raccoon dogs (they really look like raccoons), but these dogs were being raised for their FUR!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Bar-backed Partridge is a species of partridge found in southwestern China and Southeast Asia. The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. If I can give you some advice: Better not be a bird in China. Unsurprisingly, it is.

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Critter News

APRIL 11, 2010

The report follows the news in March that 11 rare Siberian tigers had starved to death within a few months at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in northeast China. The cases have shed light on the murky world of China's 12 tiger farms, which were initially set up by the state in the 1980s to preserve the numbers of animals in existence.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I received this from Chris in China, and it underscores the importance of posting videos beyond YouTube. Dear MFA, Youtube.com is blocked in China. For farm animals, China is America 2.0 Please consider posting your videos on a Vimeo channel as well, so we can embed them on sites in China. in the worst way.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2010

Tags: tigers china endangered species. It's the Year of the Tiger on the Chinese calendar and there's plenty of talk and meetings going around. But what does it really mean if you and I don't engage in saving this beautiful animal?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Officials say the sales have fuelled demand for ivory in Asian countries, especially China, contributing to a sharp increase in elephant poaching. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa Kenya china asia elephants traf. Elephants are being screwed by Asian demand for ivory. It's a mess. From the BBC.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis. Tags: china. The animals, at at Hangzhou Zoo near Shanghai, developed kidney stones after being fed milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine.

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MARCH 25, 2009

Tags: Gerbils china. Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to try to cut back the rodents' exploding numbers. The gerbils, officials say, are threatening the fragile desert ecosystem in the vast Xinjiang region.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2008

Tags: dog meat china. Looks like the ban on dog meat during the Olympics was a farce. Big surprise. I'm sure it will be more out in the open along with their choking pollution problem once the games end.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

The two-month operation involved national enforcement agencies in six tiger-range countries (China, India, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam) and was coordinated by INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Program at its headquarters in Lyon, France. Tags: wildlife smuggling tigers interpol asia endangered species.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And here I've been yelling at China all this time. (Be Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) From Alternet.org. The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products.

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Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2009

Tags: wildlife crime Traditional Chinese Medicine trafficking china malaysia. "We believe the animals were destined to be sold to Asian countries for their meat, as well as their scales to be used as traditional medicine," the department's enforcement chief Saharudin Anan told AFP.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Tags: cambodia bush meat china monkeys endangered species. Why am I not surprised that they were going to Chinese restaurants?

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2010

In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). Tags: news. A foul-smelling wound might spell an infection. Liver disease? Fishy-smelling breath. Kidney disease makes a mouth smell like urine. Rats help save humans.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. My bout of anguish began a few weeks back on a wintry night in central China, in the restless megalopolis of Chongqing. But I’m happy China eats dog." Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. Are they any more or less sentient?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

It's so easy to forget how BIG that was what with China and wolf-hatin' Palin. Tags: Michael Vick. I slapped my forehead, "Oh yeah!" As for Sick Vick himself, he filed for bankruptcy in July and the contents of a storage unit were sold to pay his bills.

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MAY 2, 2023

The chapter titled “Chasing Angels,” for example, starts with naval officer Irven Buss using his naval ship’s radar to track birds off the coast of China in 1946. Each chapter is written historically, illustrating the sometimes unexpected ways in which ideas percolate and information travels.

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Animal Person

JUNE 3, 2009

I did know that such companies steal water (and oil) from local people in other countries, promising them improved access or health or housing, and I did know of the very, very dark side of dams (particularly the Three Gorges Dam in China, with its environmental ravaging and displacing of over a million people). Drink Tap Water!

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Critter News

AUGUST 29, 2009

China of course! Tags: organized crime africa zim poaching rhino elephants. This is big, scary business out there, not some struggling poor people trying to survive. Like in arms dealing and drug smuggling, we are talking dangerous and powerful criminals. And where is the demand coming from? He's got a lot more guts than I have.

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