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Man Convicted of Illegally Trafficking Live Deer

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He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. The deer still got screwed because they ended up at the hunting preserve, but any kind of sentence for wildlife trafficking must be enforced. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking ohio south carolina Lacey Act deer.

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Virginia Fox Smuggler Gets Six Months

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Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. The animals were transported in the closed bed of a pickup truck, sometimes with two dozen or more animals crowded together. Tags: wildlife trafficking blood sport fox hunting us. Often they were injured.

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"The Cove" Continues to Disturb

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The affecting cloak-and-dagger documentary “The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive. Tags: captivity dolphin animal cruelty marine life Japan. From MSNBC. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic.

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