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Artist Sentenced for Wildlife Trafficking

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Artist Enrique Gomez De Molina was sentenced to 20 months in prison and a $6,000 fine in Miami on Friday for trafficking in illegal and threatened wildlife. “In promoting that message, he fell grievously from doing things the right way and became one of the very people he tried to educate,” Kuehne said.

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Yikes! Two TONS of Snakes & Tortoises Seized

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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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China Calls for Tiger Protection

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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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Are Thai Temple Tigers Drugged?

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recent report by wildlife organization, Care for the Wild (CWI).{accuses} accuses} the temple of illegally trafficking and mistreating the tigers, allegations that the temple emphatically denies. These tigers are really happy and you can see that in their interactions with people.".

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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Local farmers view it as a threat to domesticated wildlife. We then switch to Andy McWilliam, a genial investigator with the National Wildlife Crime Unit, who combines the skill of a life doing police work with a deep appreciation for the importance of Great Britain’s wildlife laws.

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Witherspoon in Trouble for Python Purse

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For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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