Huge Numbers of Shark Fins Harvested in Taiwan
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JUNE 20, 2011
A local group claims Taiwan kills up to 3.86 million sharks each year for their fins.
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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan (again)
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He should not be confused with Stewart Traill (1936–2018), the founder of a cult-like group of evangelical Christians, the Church of Bible Understanding. 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.
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