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Africa's Ambitious Experiment To Preserve Threatened Wildlife
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, elephants, africa, habitat protection, habitat, protection, humans, endangered, AnimalWelfare, wildanimals, wildlife, goodnews, GoodNews, animalrights )

Cal
- 11 days ago - e360.yale.edu
Five nations in southern Africa are joining together to create a huge conservation area that will extend across their borders and expand critical territory for elephants. But can these new protections reverse decades of decline for area wildlife while als
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Asian Affluence Drives African Big Game Poaching
Animals  (tags: Poaching, Elephants, Rhino, poachers, Asia, africa )

Jill
- 27 days ago - bizcommunity.com
Ivory and rhino horn and skin - boiled and ingested - have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine, which is practiced not only in Chinese communities but increasingly by other ethnic groups around the world
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African Big Game Poaching Surges on Asian Affluence
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, poaching, africa, elephants, rhinos, Asian ivory trade, greed, humans, sadness, slaughter, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, killing, animalrights, AnimalWelfare, animalcruelty )

Cal
- 30 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Elephant and rhino poaching is surging, conservationists say, an illegal piece of Asia's scramble for African resources, driven by the growing purchasing power of the region's newly affluent classes.
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"Strawberry" Leopard Discovered--A First
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, big cats, leopards, Africa )

Cher
- 43 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
African leopards normally have tawny coats with black spots. But a male leopard with a strawberry-colored coat has been spotted in South Africa's Madikwe Game Reserve (map), conservationists announced this week.
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End The Poaching And Smuggling Of Rhino Horns. WHAT THEY DO IS SICK. SIGN NOW!
Animals  (tags: rhino, horns, poaching, protection, slaughter, wildanimals, wildlife, suffering, sadness, environment, animalcruelty, abused, killing, animalrights, africa, crime, death, cruelty )

Jim
- 88 days ago - forcechange.com
Poaching of rhinoceros for their horns in southern Africa has been on the rise. Horns are smuggled and sold to buyers who believe the horns hold medical properties. This week seven arrests were made in four states following an 18 month investigation by
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ACTION ALERT: Don't Cut Funding That Saves Gorillas! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: gorillas, endangered, survival funding, conservation, protection, africa, wildlife )

Simone
- 196 days ago - forcechange.com
With the new year approaching the government is forced to consider where it can afford to save money and cut funding. The small proportion that is going to support wildlife in central Africa is proposed to be cut.
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Stop the Abuse At Monkey Town,South Africa! SIGN!
Animals  (tags: monkey, africa, abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, crime, conservation, death, ethics, killed, law, pets, protection, sadness, wildanimals, suffering, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 205 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Monkey town seems like any normal animal game reserve/zoo for people all over the world to come visit and to enjoy the surroundings and the animals that live there mainly primates, to enjoy and then go away feeling happy that they have bonded with mother.
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SAfrica May Suspend Rhino Trophy Hunts: Minister
Animals  (tags: africa, poaching, rhino, animalcruelty )

Ingrid
- 225 days ago - terradaily.com
South Africa could ban rhino trophy hunting if other efforts to curb poaching fail, the environment minister said Wednesday.
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Elephants and Livestock Battle for Water in East Africa
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, drought, Africa, elephants, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, goodnews, GoodNews, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, humans, habitat, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, humans, endangered, habitat )

Cal
- 256 days ago - cnn.com
These are difficult times for Kenya's elephants. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) says that due to their inefficient digestive systems they are always first to feel the effects of drought.
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Cuckoos' 5,000km Journey Tracked By Satellite
Animals  (tags: Cuckoos, 5, 000km journey, Birds, Africa, Research )

Maria
- 280 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology have tracked the migration routes of five British cuckoos, using tiny satellite-tracking tags.
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Hunting Giraffe Safari. Price $3800. Help Us Stop This Madness! TAKE ACTION
Animals  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, animalcruelty, animals, animalwelfare, conservation, cruelty, crime, death, environment, ethics, killed, killing, protection, suffering, wildanimals, wildlife, girrafe, lions, zebrea, antihunting, Africa )

Cristina
- 293 days ago - theperfectworld.com
Hunting trip to kill lions, elephants, rhinos, buffalos, giraffes, etc etc just for fun!? You can choose whatever animal you like. Most if not all of the animals are there. The smaller ones can be shot with a bow.
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ACTION ALERT: STOP THE KILLING OF ELEPHANTS ! - Please SIGN!
Animals  (tags: elephants, slaughtered, masscred, ivory trade, government, africa, protection )

Simone
- 373 days ago - petitionbuzz.com
THIS BEATIFULL GENTLE ANIMAL DOESN'T DESERVE THIS. PLEASE INSTITUTE LAWS THAT WILL SEVERELY PUNISH THOSE GREEDY PEOPLE WHO DO THIS TO THIS MAGNIFECENT ANIMAL JUST TO GET THEIR IVORY. WE'RE ASKING YOU TO MAKE THE HUNTING OF ANY ANIMALS, ILLEGAL.
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Help Save Africa's Lions From Becoming Extinct
Animals  (tags: lions, africa, extinction, conservation, endangered, protection, wildlife )

Chaplain
- 431 days ago - therainforestsite.com
Lions once roamed throughout most of the African continent, but they have largely disappeared from three quarters of their historic range. Habitat loss, decline in prey and conflicts with humans are taking their toll on these iconic cats.
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American Trophy Hunters May Get Banned From Hunting African Lions
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, lions, hunting, death, Africa, protection, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 432 days ago - tinygreenbubble.com
Though they are not native to the United States, a coalition of conservation groups have filed a petition to list the African lion as a protected species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Why is that step necessary? Because American sports hunters
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Agribusiness Boom Threatens Key African Wildlife Migration
Animals  (tags: wildlife, wildanimals, animals, animalwelfare, world, habitat loss, overdevelopment, corporate greed, animal migrations, africa, protection )

Cal
- 440 days ago - e360.yale.edu
Unreported, an environmental tragedy is unfolding in a remote corner of Africa, on the borders of the newly-designated state of South Sudan, that could imperil the second-largest mammal migration on the African continent.
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