Critter News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Badgers are being caught for dog-baiting. A bird species is near extinction. Tags: wildlife crime UK animal cruelty. The Brits are known for their animal rights activism, but there's been a rise in wildlife crime against all animals. Apparently they are seen as nuisances. Bats are being targeted.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Animals killed also include threatened and endangered species, a number which has steadily increased since 2005. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and killed his dog. Lethal control efforts of WS professionals typically remove less than 5 percent of a species' overall population.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2008

I did have issues with the host country in this case because of the horrible way they treat animals, and their lack of any animal cruelty laws. They will continue to keep dogs and cats in cages too small to even stand up. Continue to abuse many other species with the full backing of the state. I don't have issues with them.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. With the exception of species that number in the hundreds, conservation biologists are not as concerned with the fates of individual animals, it is only when such fates of many individuals are added up do they begin to worry.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." They belong to the canine species Nyctereutes procyonoides. Just how do Chinese workers kill raccoon dogs?"

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