Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

To me, eating apes of any kind is akin to human cannibalism. Tags: africa bush meat congo gorillas endangered species cameroon. At least there are activists in African countries themselves that are working to stop this practice.

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Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2009

The national lion population has been falling by an average of 100 per year for the last seven years due to a combination of factors, particularly human-wildlife conflict, destruction of habitats, climate change, disease and increase in human population. Tags: africa Kenya lion endangered species.

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

Sometimes I'm just embarrassed to be human. Tags: wildlife crime vietnam wildlife trafficking Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers endangered species. From EcoWorldly.the frozen carcass of a baby tiger was found in the trunk of a taxi cab on its way to a buyer in Hanoi. The baby tiger was between four and five months old.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Any animal threatened with a gun or arrow is endangered. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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Critter News

AUGUST 21, 2008

Since 1976, Michigan's endangered and threatened species listing has been modified only six times--a fact [DNR's former endangered species coordinator, Todd} Hogrefe attributed to the tremendous amount of time and effort it takes DNR staff to decide which animals to include and which to leave out.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

All the inhabited continents except Africa have experienced bird extinctions; however the 2012 update of the IUCN Red List shows a startling, but not altogether unexpected, trend in that more and more of our bird species are facing extinction. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Critter News

JUNE 21, 2009

Tags: malawi africa animal rescue elephants endangered species. To bring this desperate situation into sharp focus, our team on the ground reports that one of the elephants darted this morning is missing the bottom portion of her trunk - probably as a result of a snare.".

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. There are hundreds of videos on the Internet of proud parents enjoying their monkeys, and an estimated 15,000 monkeys live with humans as pets or surrogate children in the United States. Thanks to Chimpanzee Information for pointing this travesty out.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

TRAVERSE CITY - State officials say they're not pleased with a federal court's ruling overturning the government's decision to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list for the Great Lakes region. It's in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, including The Humane Society of the United States.

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Critter News

AUGUST 22, 2010

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. Tags: birds hunting endangered species. Really sad. Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia.

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Critter News

MAY 29, 2009

The tourism revenue creates an incentive for Uganda to protect the endangered species at the same time that it contributes to human welfare. Tags: developing countries africa economic development ecotourism uganda gorillas. This is a kind of symbiotic relationship that only benefits both members of the relationship.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

However, persecution by humans and loss of prey virtually eliminated the wolf from its natural habitat. Thanks to the Endangered Species Act and a successful reintroduction program in which NWF played a major role, the wolf is thriving again in the Yellowstone and Great Lakes areas. Tags: random stuff.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

As a result of the funding mechanisms whereby state agencies rely on hunter purchase of hunting tags to maintain operations, these bureaucracies are not going to promote predators in the face of opposition from hunters.”. Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It There is a survival lesson here to, for both owls and humans, and I’ll leave that vague, so you won’t be ‘spoiled.’ So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was. 01, 2021.

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MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. It may be as simple as trying to hit the big white one.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

would you see keeping these fish confined in an aquarium as a rescue effort or as a selfish act by humans that interferes with Nature? I think my feeling on it is that it's more of a rescue effort; that we humans made the mess that endangered the species in the first place, so we should do our best to fix it.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

About Animal Defenders International (ADI): With offices in Los Angeles, London and Bogota, Animal Defenders International (ADI) campaigns to protect animals in entertainment; replacement of animals in experiments; worldwide traffic in endangered species; vegetarianism; factory farming; pollution and conservation.

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