Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. But the seal industry doesn't care. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Shark fins are also dried and used in alternative medicine and ancient medical practices. Fin hunters also rarely care what type of shark they remove the fin from, threatening both endangered and at risk species with extinction. The fins are then utilized in a wide variety of ways, especially in areas of Asia.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). Image by Adam Riley The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama was the first Westerner to make landfall in the province.

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