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The Dog Meat Mafia!
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, dog meat trade, Asia, environment, AnimalCruelty, killing, dogs, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 21 days ago - all-creatures.org
The Dog Meat Mafia is a special report on Southeast Asia's booming dog meat trade -- a crime-ridden, multi-million dollar industry that stretches from upcountry Thailand, through Laos and into Vietnam. The series examines the economic, cultural and
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Flying Squirrel Central
Animals  (tags: flying squirrels, asia, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat )

Raffi
- 144 days ago - isidore-of-seville.com
Welcome to Flying Squirrel Central, a guide and web directory to the many species of flying squirrels. Here you'll find over 150 links to species data, photographs, distribution maps, pet info--even stuffed animals and poems. The idea is to collect
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Tuskers Create Bad Blood Between India, Nepal
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, Asia, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 165 days ago - thaindian.com
A part of eastern Nepal is simmering with anger against the Indian authorities and its own officials with wild elephants playing havoc and no compensation or permanent solution in sight.
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Irrawaddy Dolphins! Video!
Animals  (tags: animals, dolphins, Asia, study, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 166 days ago - wcs.org
WCS researchers in Asia are studying a remarkable group of river dolphins, and offer an up close view.
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Poaching Crisis as Rhino Horn Demand Booms in Asia
Animals  (tags: animals, rhinos, poaching, booms, Asia, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife, suffering )

Cher
- 168 days ago - panda.org
Rhino poaching worldwide is poised to hit a 15-year-high driven by Asian demand for horns, according to new research.
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Diving Deer Discovered In Asia
Animals  (tags: diving deer, discovered, asia, mouse deer, excellent swimmer, wildanimals, endangered )

Simone
- 170 days ago - alternet.org
Ever heard of a diving deer? Scientists believe they have discovered a breed of deer which dives into water to escape predators, reports the BBC. Studies of mouse-deer which are found in Asia, have shown that the small deer, which don't usually
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Civet Cat-the Coffee Cat
Animals  (tags: civet cats, cat-fox, Borneo, Asia, coffee beans, protection )

Raffi
- 183 days ago - en.wikipedia.org
Civets are small, lithe-bodied, mostly arboreal mammals native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. Civet may also refer to the distinctive musk produced by the animal. The common name is used for a variety of carnivorous mammalian species
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Moon Bears - Confined to a Living Hell...! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, bears, cruelty, Asia, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering, wildlife )

Cher
- 190 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Moon Bears are kept in 'coffin' sized cages all their lives. That is 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. Stacks of them, lines of them, factory style. They cannot turn around, they cannot display natural behaviours. They are literally hemmed in
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Wildlife on Camera Rivals Asia Rainforest
Animals  (tags: animals, Asia, rainforest, carnivores, study, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 227 days ago - telegraphindia.com
A two-year study of the carnivores in the wilds of Upper Assam has revealed a hotbed of bio-diversity that can rival the best tropical rainforest sites in South and Southeast Asia.
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The Situation in Asia
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, cats, dogs, Asia, AnimalCruelty, killing, protection, pets )

Cher
- 241 days ago - fourpaws.org.uk
In some Asian countries cats and dogs are brutally killed for the fur industry and food production. The animals are specially bred in farms, caught on the streets or simply stolen from their owners. The dogs and cats, jammed in small cages often without
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Tiger Conservation in the Wild in Asia
Animals  (tags: animals, tigers, conservation, Asia, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered, extinction )

Cher
- 248 days ago - tinyurl.com
To conserve the tiger, the top carnivore in Asian forests, the methods we use and the approaches we take to understand their ecological needs and conservation must encompass the large spatial scales at which they live their lives.
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Rhino Population Hits 2K Mark
Animals  (tags: animals, one horned rhino, Asia, census, numbers increase, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 252 days ago - rhinos-irf.org
According to the 2009 census, the population of the one-horned Asian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in the park has been estimated at 2,048, an increase of 193 from the 2006 census.
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Free the Bears of Vietnam!!
Animals  (tags: asia, bear bile farms, bear farming, freedom, saving bears, vietnam, horrific animal cruelty )

Simone
- 268 days ago - freethebears.org.au
Bile, extracted from the gall bladders of live bears throughout Asia, has been used in Traditional medicine for over three thousand years. It is believed that bear bile can be effective in reducing fever and inflammation, and by cooling the blood, and
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Sign Petition: Put An End to Shark Finning - Not on Our Menu!
Animals  (tags: animals, ocean, japan, china, malay, asia, marine, food chain, sharks, fins, sadness, suffering, cruelty, endangered, extinction, protection )

Tom
- 272 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Sharks survived the mass extinction of the dinosaurs but are now in danger of being lost forever. By removing apex predators from the food chain, we tilt the ecological balance of our seas. This threatens the stability of all marine life and humanity.
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Learn What You Can Do to Help Put An End to Fur Farming and the Consumption of Companion Animals
Animals  (tags: animalrights, animaladvocates, dogs, endangered, abuse, cats, China, fur industry, companion animals, cruelty, Asia )

Kara
- 284 days ago - wflendangeredstreamlive.blogspot.com
If you care at all about animals, you need to listen to this special talk radio show. Please visit the site and mark your calendar to listen and participate on March 21.
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