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Animals News tagged with forests

Tribals and Tigers Can Live in Peace
Animals  (tags: tribals, tigers, wild animals, harmony, homes, forests, conservation )

Simone
- 6 days ago - expressbuzz.com
When the Forest Rights Bill was conceived and a debate raged, the neo-conservationists asked the nation to choose between tigers and tribals. For the first time in India, a law was opposed through a TV ad campaign which argued that the remaining forests
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Bill Aims to Make It a Crime to Harm Saskatchewan Horses
Animals  (tags: bill, crime, wild ponies, descendants, sasketchewan, protection, forests, freedom )

Simone
- 18 days ago - leaderpost.com
A tiny population of small wild horses in northwest Saskatchewan is under threat and needs protection before it's too late, says a Saskatchewan Party MLA. Tim McMillan, who represents the Lloydminster constituency, introduced a private member's bill
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Sign Petition: Defend Federally Recognized Endangered Species
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered, species, extinction, death, environment, habitat, protection, conservation, USDA, UN, USA, plants, tropical, forests, grazing, cattle, ranching, deforestation )

Tom
- 167 days ago - change.org
The USDA says grazing has contributed to the demise of 26% of federal threatened and endangered species in the USA. According to the UN, ranching-induced deforestation is on the main reasons for the loss of plant and animal species in tropical forests.
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Sumatra Tiger-Human Violence Linked to Asia Pulp and Paper Company
Animals  (tags: animals, sumatra, tigers, logging, paper, clearcutting, forests, endangered, suffering, wildlife, extinction, environment, conservation, protection, wildanimals )

Tom
- 243 days ago - ecoworldly.com
A research report says that over the last 12 years, near areas being deforested by Asia Pulp and Paper, 55 people and 15 critically endangered Sumatran tigers have lost their lives in the violence. Seventeen of the tigers have been captured alive.
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Villains in the Forest
Animals  (tags: tigers, human-tiger conflict, Sumatra, pulp and paper, forests, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, humans, killed, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, endangered, extinction )

Cher
- 247 days ago - thestar.com.my
MOST violent incidents between people and tigers in the Riau province of Sumatra in the past 12 years have occurred near forests being cleared by paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) and associated companies, according to a new analysis of human-tiger
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Save America's Wildest National Forest! Sign Petition!!
Animals  (tags: animals, forests, wild animals, wolves, bears, eagles, protection, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, wildlife )

Cher
- 542 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska is a crown jewel of our nation's public lands. Wild salmon, grizzly bears, bald eagles, and wolves thrive among the millions of acres of lush, ancient forests and healthy, intact watersheds.
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FFI to Help Protect Romania's Bears, Wolves and Forests
Animals  (tags: bears, wildlife, forests, conservation, Romania, AnimalWelfare, animals, environment, protection, wildanimals )

Cher
- 552 days ago - fauna-flora.org
New foundation launched to build Romania's conservation capacity, ensuring long-term protection for the country's impressive wildlife. A new institution has been established as part of a project to help conserve Romania's protected areas.
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Rajah Brooke's Birdwing - Trogonoptera Brookiana: Listed on Appendix II of CITES
Animals  (tags: environment, endangered, butterflies, protection, habitat, wildlife, conservation, environment, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, wildlife, protection, nature, habitat, forests, conservation, water, trees, Sustainabililty, endangered, environment, conse )

Thunderr
- 563 days ago - arkive.org
The male's elongated,jet black forewings are decorated with metallic green triangles along the edges and there is a small area of iridescent azure blue towards the butterfly's body.Body/antennae black,head red.Threats deforestation,agricultural conversion
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Just Hanging on
Animals  (tags: borneo, forests, habitat, wildlife, organtuans, threatned, disappearing palm oil industry, poaching )

Simone
- 570 days ago - smh.com.au
His lithe frame at full stretch, an orang-utan attempts to spearfish in a river on Kaja Island, Borneo, mimicking what he has watched humans do. Time and again he plunges his "spear" - a simple stick - into the murky water. When his exertions prove
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Ask Our Governments and International Authorities to Accept as Their Superior Duty to Save and Protect Primates.
Animals  (tags: primates, forests, endangered species, save, tropical forests, biodiversity )

Beatrice
- 592 days ago - apesmanifesto.org
A campain to gather 1 milion signatures. Petition of scientists available in a lot of languages.
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Encroachment Forces Wild Animals to Enter Human Habitations
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, protection, wildlife, environment, poaching, forests, habitat )

Tom
- 610 days ago - newindpress.com
RAJAHMUNDRY, INDIA: The dense forests are becoming unsafe to the predators in recent times thanks to rampant poaching, increasing habitations abutting the forests, quarrying, construction of irrigation projects and development of tourists spots.
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Arrest in Congo Gorilla Killings
Animals  (tags: animals, conservation, ecosystems, endangered, destruction, environment, forests, habitat, habitatdestruction, humans, nature, protection, wildlife, africa, conflict, corruption, crime, death, government, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates )

Sheila
- 616 days ago - cnn.com
Mashagiro, a park ranger has been arrested for allegedly masterminding the massacre of 10 endangered mountain gorillas. Only about 700 mountain gorillas remain in the world. Mashagiro is accused of arranging the mass killing to deter conservationists who
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Earning Our Stripes : A New Generation Challenges Their Elders to Help Save the Tiger
Animals  (tags: tigers, food chain, climate change, protection, forests, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat )

Cher
- 636 days ago - tehelka.com
For those who ask the question, "why do we need to save the tiger?" the answer is quite simple. Tigers lie at the top of the food chain. A healthy tiger population is an indication that a forest is ecologically sound. And forests are the source of our
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Tigers Don't Change Their Stripes
Animals  (tags: tiger, conservation, reserves, forests, habitat, poaching, survival, endangered, extinction )

Simone
- 643 days ago - hindu.com
Given the current low number of wild tigers and their precarious conservation status due to their fragmented habitats and extensive poaching, we as a nation will have to make an immediate and strong commitment to provide for the ecological needs of the
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Elephants & Ants Help Acacia Trees: Study Shows Link Between Large Herbivores, Ants and Healthy Trees
Animals  (tags: environment, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, conservation, environment, forests, habitat, nature, research, wildlife )

TW
- 679 days ago - ecosystem-preservation.suite101.com
Not only do they help germinate plants, elephants and other African animals ensure the balance of ants on acacia trees, stressing the importance of ecosystem preservation
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