Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

whether it be animal rights or human rights. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue. What kind of protection do they really mean? You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." I'm too, too cynical.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Yes, that's right. Tags: wildlife smuggling cambodia wildlife trafficking reptiles tortoises snakes. In Cambodia. Luckily, they were alive and released back into the wild. From the AP last week. Chan Savouen, deputy police chief of Kandal province.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 20, 2008

{accuses} the temple of illegally trafficking and mistreating the tigers, allegations that the temple emphatically denies. Robyn Shelby, a law student from California, has been volunteering at the temple for seven months and told ABC News, "I haven't seen anything that I don't agree with, and I am very big on animal rights.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

But it's the same concept that underlies both situations: viewing others as commodities that you have a right to exploit. Injustice wears many masks, but behind them all is the same face: the belief that you have the right to use and profit from someone else's life. Our job, it seems to me, is to help them see it.

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