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Almost One-Third of Japanese Whale Kill Was Pregnant

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From Wildlife Extra. Tags: whales Japan hunting whaling. Leave it to the Japanese. Always classy. Of 679 whales reported to have been killed during the 2008-2009 whale hunt in Antarctica, 304 were female. Four of the female whales were lactating, and 192 were pregnant at the time of death.

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Psychiatrist Arrested for Trafficking in Gall Bladders

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From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears.

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An End to Japanese Whaling?

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I seriously doubt it, despite the Greenpeace report in Wildlife Extra News. Tags: Japan hunting greenpeace whaling. It's too much a matter of international pride. (I I know, I know, I'm always a pessimist.but I'm so good at it!)

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Whales in danger.

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IFAW advocates for the protection of wildlife in their habitats, works to prevent cruelty to animals, and rescues individual animals. Tags: rescues. The International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW ), is a non-profit organization working to save animals in crisis worldwide, to help protect our oceans’ whale population.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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I wonder if we’ll live to see the day when Collared Doves finish their world encirclement by expanding though Alaska into NE Asia and then linking up with the populations there (they have reached Japan and Korea). Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Get yours today!

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). And the research also had implications for fish owl research in general, which has been applied to research projects in Japan. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was.

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Tsunami Pics from Midway Atoll

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link] Duncan Mar 14th, 2011 at 11:20 pm My boss from Tern has let me know that Laysan apparently suffered “significant loss of wildlife and some damage and loss of infrastructure and equipment.&# That said, given the history of the islands I imagine the wildlife will recover with time. The proposal from U.S.

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