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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. It was a humiliation for scientific know-how and the technocratic fix in the face of environmental catastrophe, a disaster that would inform the controversy over later captive breeding efforts for other endangered species.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

The Amur Leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis – above) is just one majestic animal on the Critically Endangered (CR) list with less than 100 individuals in the wild due to hunting for its fur. Asian Elephants and Indian Elephants ( Elephas maximus indicus ) are both listed as Endangered (EN) on the ICUN red list.

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