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ACTION ALERT: HELP TO PROTECT HORSES IN COLOMBIAN!!
Animals  (tags: cart horse industry, cruelty, suffering, horse burnt alive, colombia, animal advocates )

Simone
- 3 days ago - oipa.org
The horse didn't want to walk and the owner dumped gasoline all over him, and set him on fire. This happened in Colombia, South America.
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See-Through Frogs Discovered
Animals  (tags: Frogs, Colombia, Species, Amphibians )

Nancy
- 3 days ago - livescience.com
Ten newfound species of amphibians -- including a frog with spiky skin and three varieties of frogs with transparent skin -- have been discovered in the mountains of Colombia.
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Colombian Culture Is Bloody and Cruel
Animals  (tags: colombia, minister, authorities, condoning animal cruelty, cockfighting, bull fighting, horrendous animal suffering )

Simone
- 140 days ago - colombiareports.com
Last week it became public knowledge that Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez didnot consider that bullfighting and cockfighting should be outlawed because they are cultural and artistic expressions of Colombians. This verdict was addressed to the
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Save Colombia's Jaguars ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, jaguars, Colombia, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals )

Cher
- 224 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
jaguars are near threatened but in Colombia they are vulnerable. they are one of the most beautiful animals you can imagine but are threatened by rain forest destruction and are being poisoned by farmers they are one of the best predators you can imagine
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Help Stop Experiments on Wild-Caught Owl Monkeys in Colombia
Animals  (tags: experiments, torn from the wild, wild animals, owl monkeys, colombia, animal torture, wildlife trade, horrific cruelty, suffering )

Simone
- 301 days ago - savetheprimates.org
Colombian animal researcher, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, accused of involvement in illegal trafficking of his monkey victims. Patarroyo (who apparently claims his work is worthy of a Nobel Prize) has been using wild-caught owl (night) monkeys for his
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Is This the Largest Invasive Species in the World? Hippos in Colombia
Animals  (tags: colombia, wildlife, wild animals, hippos, invasion?, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 308 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
January 2009. Pablo Escobar, the notorious drugs lord, had so much money that he didn't know what to do with it. Amongst other things (A bullring, an airstrip, an ersatz Jurassic Park with half a dozen immense concrete dinosaurs.), he stocked part of his
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'Lost' Harlequin Frog Rediscovered in Colombia
Animals  (tags: colombia, wildlife, wild animals, amphibians, harlequin frog, extinction, endangered, protection, habitat, humans )

Jacquelin
- 402 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Threatened Amphibian Assessment Project has found 3 Critically Endangered amphibians, including the Sonson Harlequin Frog (Atelopus sonsonensis,) as well as 18 other threatened amphibian species. Not seen for 10
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Critically Endangered Yellow-Eared Parrot Has Record Breeding Year - Edging Away From the Abyss
Animals  (tags: colombia, wildlife, wild animals, birds, yellow eared parrot, endangered, habitat, protection, breeding, recovery, humans )

Jacquelin
- 419 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Unprecedented progress has been made towards the conservation of the Critically Endangered Yellow-eared Parrot in Colombia. A total of 80 nests, both natural and artificial, were reported and monitored by ProAves as well as the successful fledging of a fa
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Scientists Discover Poisonous 'Golden Frog' in Colombia
Animals  (tags: colombia, discovery, wildlife, amphibians, golden frog )

Jacquelin
- 820 days ago - foxnews.com
A new poisonous frog has been discovered by scientists in a remote mountainous region of Colombia. The new frog, which measures almost 0.8 inches in length and has yellowish skin, was named the "golden frog of Supatá." The scientists who discovered
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New Poison Frog Species Discovered in Colombia
Animals  (tags: wildlife, new species, frogs, colombia, amphibians, animals )

Rhett
- 820 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of poison frog in a remote mountainous region in Colombia. The tiny frog has been dubbed the "golden frog of Supatá" and lives only in a 20 hectare area in Colombia's Cundinamarca region.
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