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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan (again)

10,000 Birds

A 2004 paper looking at the conflict between this owl and cold-water fish farmers in Taiwan found that owls were an issue at a quarter of the farms observed. Sadly, at the majority of these farms, owls were trapped with steel leg-hold traps or mist nets, resulting in 10 owls being found drowned in the fish ponds.

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Moon Bears Rescued from Bile Farm in Vietnam

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Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. Tags: taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine bear bile china asia. Moon bears are rare, which makes this all the sadder. Again, the China connection. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue.

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