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Animals News tagged with endangered animals

Endangered Sanctuary Animals Sold to Hunting Safari
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, hunting safari, pgymy hippo slaughtered, outrage, australian scums )

Simone
- 4 days ago - tvnz.co.nz
Exotic and endangered animals from an abandoned wildlife sanctuary were sold to a hunting safari in the Northern Territory, it has been revealed. Some 300 animals, including herds of critically endangered African scimitar horned oryx and addax, were
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273 Animals Die in Four Months at Bannerghatta Zoo
Animals  (tags: investigation, 273 animals, died, deaths, bannerghatta zoo, mystery, endangered animals )

Simone
- 6 days ago - hindu.com
At first glance things appear to be going well for the sprawling Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), where exotic and endangered wildlife draw lakhs of tourists every year. But a closer look reveals an alarming statistic: in the last four months alone,
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ACTION ALERT: Obama: Step Up Review of Endangered Species Listings!!!
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, imperiled species, threatened, review, obama administration, protection, legalisation )

Simone
- 8 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Obama administration has reviewed and protected species under the Endangered Species Act at a slower rate than any recent President. Tell the Obama administration to step up the review process and protect more species.
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Tibet's Ngari: Home to Wild Animals
Animals  (tags: tibetan wild animals, home, ngari, endangered animals, wildlife )

Simone
- 16 days ago - chinatibet.people.com.cn
With vast lush grasslands and abundant water resources, Northern Tibet's Ngari Pefecture, at an average altitude of 4,500 m above sea level, is considered the home to 40 species of wild animals under top national protection, such as Tibetan donkeys and
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Seven Arrested for Smuggling Wildlife Products Into China
Animals  (tags: arrests, wildlife products, endangered animals, wildlife, trade, illegal, crime )

Simone
- 16 days ago - economictimes.indiatimes.com
Seven people, including two Tibetans, have been arrested for illegal trafficking of wild life articles into China and Tibet. Two tiger skins, two leopard skins, tiger bones and their body parts have been recovered from them, the Central Bureau of
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Obama Issues Endangered Species Performance Review: Has Only Listed One Species in 10 Months
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, wildife, plants, no protection, species, extinction, disappearing )

Simone
- 18 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
The Obama administration today issued its first review of species that are candidates for protection as endangered species, identifying a total of 249 species in need of protection. The review also describes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's progress
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Trade of Elephant Tusks and Tiger Bodies Rampant in Some Indonesian Cities: Survey
Animals  (tags: wildlife black market, endangered animals, elephants, tigers, poaching smugglers, asian cities )

Simone
- 103 days ago - news.xinhuanet.com
The trade on elephant tusks and tiger is apparently concerning in Indonesia with free trading on parts and the mummified bodies of the endangered species were rampant in major cities in Sumatra and Java, the Antara news agency reported here on Friday.
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Illegal Animal Trading Puts Malaysia on the World Map for All the Wrong Reasons
Animals  (tags: malaysia, wildlife trade, global international, smuggling, endangered animals, destruction, poaching )

Simone
- 108 days ago - thestar.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: In 2006, Taiwanese authorities seized a three-tonne shipment of ivory from Tanzania worth RM25mil that had transited Penang port. An Indian national who was caught with an illegal consignment of Indian star tortoises at the KL
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Where There's Life, There's Hope for Conservation
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, wildlife, survival, captive breeding, conservation )

Simone
- 111 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The future of slender-billed vultures in India may lie with the first of their kind to breed in captivity following a 97% crash in the species population since the 1990s - or it may not. It could well be that every effort to save the vultures from extinct
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US-Mexico Border Wall Could Threaten Wildlife Species
Animals  (tags: usa mexico border, endangered animals, wildlife, survival, conservation, habitat, environment )

Simone
- 141 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A 700-mile security wall under construction along the United States' border with Mexico could significantly alter the movement and "connectivity" of wildlife, biologists say, and the animals' potential isolation is a threat to populations of some species.
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10 Top Wildlife Conservation Holidays
Animals  (tags: conservation, environmentalists, holidays, endangered animals, protection, habitat )

Simone
- 208 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
It's not easy being a black rhino. One minute, you're wandering the African savanna, the next the Chinese decide that your horn cures epilepsy, and some quack in India tells everyone it's the perfect aphrodisiac. Oh, and the Yemenis want it for their
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Living on the Edge
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, locations, populations, extincrion, disappearingwildlife, habitat, humans, environment )

Simone
- 224 days ago - deccanherald.com
Ever seen the Iberian lynx, or the silky sifafka? Chances are, you haven't. There are only about 100 to 200 of them in the world. Jake Richardson lists 10 animals on the verge of extinction and the reasons behind the reduction in their numbers.
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Killing of Leopardess Sparks Off Row
Animals  (tags: pregnant leopardess, shot dead, killed, man eater?villagers, outrage, endangered animals )

Simone
- 224 days ago - thestatesman.net
The killing of a pregnant leopardess has triggered controversy and sharp reactions from the wildlife experts in the state, despite reports by the forest staff that the big cat was a man-eater and had been reeking havoc in Chamoli district. A team of
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Please Take Action: Should Zoos Use Birth Control to Stop Overpopulation?
Animals  (tags: zoo, endangered animals, conservation, populations, birth control, captive wild animals )

Simone
- 242 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Haphazard Breeding in European Zoos is Dangerous Farasi, the baby hippopotamus born at the Basel Zoo in Switzerland has become famous since his birth in November 2008. His birth also stirred up controversy when the public learned the Basel Zoo wasn't
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Animal-Guard Conflict Takes a Toll in Kaziranga
Animals  (tags: kaziranga national reservve, endangered animals, wildlife, guards, disaster, deaths, conflicts, animal guards )

Simone
- 259 days ago - telegraphindia.com
A boom in the animal population inside Kaziranga National Park has triggered a "war" among the denizens and the forest guards engaged for their protection. The increasing conflict between forest guards and the animals has left a forest guard dead and
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