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JANUARY 30, 2010

The BBC has an article about the spreading practice of "farming" tigers. Tags: tigers china.

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JUNE 25, 2010

The guy was clearly trafficking in illegal parts as there were about 50 kg of bones belonging to other tigers. Tags: wildlife smuggling vietnam wildlife trafficking tigers panthers. This happened in Vietnam.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Some conservationists worry that the tigers living at a Buddhist Temple in Thailand are drugged, but the monks deny it. Tourists visiting the Tiger Temple pay big money: anything from $15 just for entry, up to $50 for the very special photograph of a tiger with its head in your lap. Tags: tigers thailand.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. He added that the forest ministry, state governments and a separate authority on the management of tiger reserves had agreed to work together to ensure conservation of the endangered animal.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2010

It's the Year of the Tiger on the Chinese calendar and there's plenty of talk and meetings going around. Tags: tigers china endangered species. I like this opinion piece in the Huffington Post. But what does it really mean if you and I don't engage in saving this beautiful animal?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

As this article points out , tigers are worth more dead than alive if you use humanity's flawed accounting system. Tags: wildlife crime extinction Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers china. It's not only China, but all Asian countries that are playing a major role in reducing this beautiful animal's number.

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

Things have been tough at the San Francisco Zoo after Tatiana the Siberian tiger attacked those three people in 2007. The zoo made major changes to its emergency-response procedures, including raising the wall of the tiger grotto, found to be about 4 feet shorter than what national standards recommend. It's a long list.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species. They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Another tiger lost. Tags: poaching tigers malaysia endangered species.

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2009

Tags: darwin award tigers. He and some friends were trying to take a shortcut and climbed over a fence with signs warning of predatory animals. They didn't believe the signs because they couldn't see any.

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Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

With only 3,200 tigers left in the wild. Tags: tigers.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

They seized tiger skins, tiger bones and otter skins. Where could those tiger bones be going but to Asian countries to make tiger bone wine? Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime otters India organizations poaching tigers. In India this time.

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JULY 11, 2009

In India, another head of a tiger poaching ring is behind bars. Tags: wildlife crime India poaching tigers. Well, here's a first for me. And it's a woman! Sounds like she ran a pretty vile operation too.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2010

A private zoo operator in Taiwan cross-bred lions and tigers, resulting in three "liger" cubs. Tags: zoos taiwan tigers lion endangered species. One died and the other two were seized for sheltering at a research institution. Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. From Focus Taiwan.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

From TRAFFIC, Customs officers from Russia and China met last week to strengthen international co-operation in tackling cross-border smuggling of Tigers and other wildlife products. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking tigers china russia.

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Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

Detectives seized 200 products believed to be made from endangered animals including musk deer, leopards and tigers. Tags: wildlife crime UK wildlife trafficking Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers endangered species. Not surprisingly, they raided a shop selling Chinese traditional medicines. From the Telegraph.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Vladimir Putin, former President and current Prime Minister of Russia, just got a tiger cub for his birthday. He told journalists that Koni has not met the tiger cub. In August, Putin had occasion to pet a full-grown female Ussuri tiger after shooting her with a tranquilizer gun. Tags: tigers russia.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Tigers are the ones getting most of the attention. Tags: India leopard endangered species. You don't hear much about leopards. But they are seriously threatened by extinction too. This article says India is losing more than one a day.

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Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

Illegal trade in tiger meat and bones is also alive, continuing to threaten the extinction of an already depleted species, he said. Tags: wildlife smuggling Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers exotic meat china endangered species.

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Critter News

MARCH 29, 2010

It's not just tiger parts and elephant tusks that are being used for so called "traditional" medicinal uses. Tags: traditional medicine poaching primates endangered species. I didn't know primates were in demand too. I knew about bush meat, but not about this. Will it ever end?

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Police seized tiger bones, anteater scales and bear gall bladders in an international operation against the use of endangered plants and animals in traditional medicine, officers said Friday. Tags: organized crime wildlife smuggling wildlife crime wildlife trafficking. From the AFP.

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

It's a nice story to offset the cruelty of the dead baby tiger in Hanoi. Tags: seattle animal rescue marine life seals. The group is called Seal Sitters and they protect baby seals who have been left on the each while their moms fish.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

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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Critter News

JANUARY 14, 2010

Maybe they can start trading them for bear gall bladders and tiger parts. Tags: canada. "That being said, there are many other markets out there. That's what we're doing in China. We're trying to expand on the market that's here."

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Critter News

MARCH 13, 2010

Examples include panda bears, wolves, elephants, tigers, etc. Tags: marine life marine animals endangered species. It's those species that either have a powerful personality or a cute face that endear people to them and garner news attention. It's the same problem with marine life. So what happens to them?

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Putin has at least shown some interest in saving the Siberian tiger, so let's hope this is more then just a gimmick. Tags: leopard russia. They question the need for spending billions of dollars on the games during a financial crisis and say they do not believe all the infrastructure would be ready by 2014.

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Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

The only way most of us will ever see an elephant (or a tiger or a hippo) is on the National Geographic Channel, at a circus or in a zoo. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. The elitist “animal-rights” zealots hate to admit this. But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being.

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JANUARY 3, 2010

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. It's important to note that Corwin doesn't think he has all of the answers. But for now, we have a book that describes how we got here and what we might do.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies. Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. If fishers truly wished to revitalize fish populations, they would leave them alone. Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Chance is so close! Please consider a gift.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Suppose it were discovered that with proper training lions and tigers could live on zebra-flavored soy products. Should vegetarians promote a society that trains lions and tigers to eat such meat substitutes? This training would involve interfering with the freedom of lions and tigers, with the ecological balance, and so on.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Get yours today! Join Mike in Jamaica!

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop declared 2010 to be the Year of the Tiger. The intention is to focus on saving the tiger species which is being decimated. When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The research is outlined as a three-step process, also utilized as the structure for the book: (1) Baptism by Ice: learning the techniques needed to locate the owls; (2) Fish Owls of the Sikhote-Alin: identifying a study population; (3) Captures: capturing fish owls, tagging them with radio transmitters, and collecting data.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Tags: best b , weekend • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? I suspect though that once we get past the Ides of March (beware!) we might have a shot at another spring. And isn’t that an inspiring thought? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Get yours today!

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