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Tiger Farms in China

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The BBC has an article about the spreading practice of "farming" tigers. Tags: tigers china.

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China Calls for Tiger Protection

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India’s newfound partnership with China on environment issues has yielded results in the area of tiger protection as well. You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue.

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Tiger Abuse at Chinese Zoos

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It is an irony not lost on the Chinese public that the Year of the Tiger has not been good for the big cats. On Tuesday, state media reported that dozens of tigers and other endangered animals had died of malnutrition over the past two years at the Northern Forest Zoo in the Chinese city of Harbin. Tags: zoos tigers china.

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Tigers in South Africa are being intensively farmed for commercial trade –

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India Reaches Out to Neighbors to Save Tigers

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They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits. Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.

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Birding Shanghai in May

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A Tiger Shrike – as always – looks very stylish. Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. At least one Boat-billed Heron awaited us in the thickets.