Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Acting on a tip, police intercepted the boat Wednesday on the Bassac River in southeastern Cambodia just before it crossed into Vietnam. Tags: wildlife smuggling cambodia wildlife trafficking reptiles tortoises snakes. Chan Savouen, deputy police chief of Kandal province.

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Tortoises Cambodia Vietnam Pythons 100

Critter News

AUGUST 25, 2008

No wonder wildlife trafficking is such a problem. ICCN (Congolese Wildlife Authority) rangers received a tip-off that someone in Goma was trying to sell a baby gorilla. Tags: iccn chimpanzees wildlife trafficking africa congo. Even members of the army are involved. In this case, someone confused a baby chimp with a baby gorilla.

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Congo Trafficking Gorillas illegal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2013

The only drawback is that both places are highly trafficked with runners (both fast and not so fast), jabbering housewives with strollers, walkers (both fast and not so fast), camoed-out photographers with lenses that would make Piers Morgan call for an assault weapons ban on camera gear and an assortment of other frenetic bipedals.

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North America Factory Alligators Trafficking 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2014

Well, I am here for you…I have always found it fitting that the most beloved birder makes his home at the world’s most-trafficked birding blog…I sit atop a mighty precipice of power birding and bird bloggery…and in my position as being a leading light, it feels only right to give back to all the would-be bloggers out there.

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Birds Salamander Trafficking Litter 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

Measurements veer off from the typical tip-of-bill to tip-of-tail; here the length is base-of-bill to tip-of-tail, utilizing figures Herzog obtained from museum specimens and other sources. When you put it like that, it’s worth publishing a generally excellent guide with some idiosyncratic illustrations.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 168