Critter News

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

(Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products. Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. From Alternet.org. Since the demand continues, so does the trafficking.".

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Endangered Species Trafficking Species United States 100

Critter News

JULY 22, 2010

Caught at the airport in Mexico City, he had 18 of these monkeys and two of them were dead. Tags: wildlife smuggling mexico primates endangered species.

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Monkeys Endangered Species Primates Mexico 100

Critter News

MARCH 22, 2010

From Vietnam News. Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. Tags: vietnam exotic meats wildlife trafficking bush meat endangered species. Sounds just awful.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. One may say so.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

We soon were close to the Mokohinau Islands , one of the many islands in the area that serve as wildlife refuges. The islands had a number of birds themselves, not as many as the larger or closer islands like Little Barrier Island, but we were able to see Kereru/New Zealand Pigeon , Tui , and New Zealand Fantails.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana. Despite birding in shattered forests with the constant background whine of chainsaws, the birding is phenomenal, with an incredible diversity and volume of rare and endangered species.

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