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Baghdad Zoo Wants Animals

Critter News

It makes me sick thinking about the animals already there (numbering 1,500 including lions and tigers.). Tags: zoos iraq. It's bad enough to send animals to zoos, but to a zoo in Baghdad??

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

Consider this: Every month, it takes $12 billion to fund America's involvement in the Iraq War. It's important to note that Corwin doesn't think he has all of the answers. He does believe we have an obligation to intervene because we are responsible for the current plight of the rest of "the natural world," which we evidently don't belong to.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

It’s all very well to advocate the should that tigers should not be poached from a reserve in India. The tigers keep wandering out of their reserve and taking cattle from nearby villages, taking what little these already poor people have. Perhaps it would be better to move the tigers to that bigger reserve, or maybe a zoo.

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