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Tigers
Animals  (tags: tigers, hunted, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 1836 days ago - bigcatrescue.org
This species has been (and is still) widely hunted throughout its range for sport, for the fur trade, and for the traditional Asian medicine market. For the medicine trade - no part of the Tiger's body goes unused.
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Save Russian Bear Cubs - PETITION
Animals  (tags: russian bears, orphaned, hunted, cruelty, disappearing, killed )

Simone
- 1838 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In Russia, wealthy hunters pay more than US$2,000 to rouse brown bears from hibernation and kill them. The hunters' dogs dig and bark at the den while the hunters wait nearby with rifles poised. When the bear climbs out of the den, the hunters shoot
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Oncilla
Animals  (tags: oncillas, exploited small cat, wild cats, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, endangered, extinction, hunted, illegal fur trade )

Cher
- 1838 days ago - wildcatconservation.org
Oncillas are one of the smallest cat species in the Americas, averaging 2.5 kg. Their coat is light brown to rich ochre or grey, with very dark brown or black spots and blotches. The underparts are lighter with solitary black spots. Limbs are spotted on
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Mountain Lion Hunted in Eagle Rock
Animals  (tags: mountain lions, hunted, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1840 days ago - latimes.com
Authorities are working to trap a mountain lion that made its way into the backyard of a home in Eagle Rock today. Los Angeles police received a call about 8:45 a.m. that a mountain lion had been seen in the backyard of a house on the 5000 block of
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Another Endangered Species, Another Case of White House Interference
Animals  (tags: white house interference, endangered species, north atlantic right whales, no protection, conservation, laws, legislation, vanishing, hunted )

Simone
- 1841 days ago - plentymag.com
Dick Cheney's office has spent the last 14 months blocking a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration rule that would protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales by slowing the speed of large commercial ships in key migratory
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Bearing Down on Grizzlies
Animals  (tags: grizzlies, massacred, hunted, no protection, endangered, conservation, british columbia )

Simone
- 1843 days ago - cnews.canoe.ca
Years ago, I was surprised to learn that a grizzly bear is protected in the United States, but if it walks across the border into British Columbia, it can be killed for sport. So we did a program on them for The Nature of Things. I was amazed to see
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The Big Bad Wolf
Animals  (tags: wolves, humans, fear, hatred, massacred, cruelty, maglined, disappearing, hunted, destroyed )

Simone
- 1843 days ago - latimes.com
In the Rockies, man's hatred and fear of the species is on display again. It's been nearly 100 years since 22-year-old graduate biology student Aldo Leopold shot and killed one of the last wolves in New Mexico. He later recounted the event with regret,
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Save Our Arctic Wolves - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: arctic wolves, rarity, hunted, conservation, wolves, destroyed )

Simone
- 1851 days ago - video.aol.com
Save Our Wolves Ban Wolf Hunting
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Save The Primates - PETITION
Animals  (tags: primates, relations, wild animals, disappearing, hunted, extinction, protection, conservation )

Simone
- 1860 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Please help and join the world to help .....save whats left... of our close Human......Primates.
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Men Accused of Trapping Deer, Elk on Colorado Ranch for Hunting
Animals  (tags: deer, elk, trapped, hunted, charges, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1861 days ago - aspentimes.com
Two men face felony charges for allegedly trapping deer and elk on a ranch and charging hunters to kill them. The federal indictment against Edward Kruse and Sean Sulzner alleges the men used ramps to get the animals onto their ranch, where they trapped
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Take Action: Help Pass the Bear Protection Act
Animals  (tags: bear protection act, bears, hunted, killed, vanishing, black market trade, poachers, bear parts, bear bile )

Simone
- 1865 days ago - community.hsus.org
Wild bear populations are under attack by poachers feeding the international black market trade in bear parts. But Congress can help. H.R. 5534, the Bear Protection Act, would prohibit the import, export, and interstate commerce of bear viscera such as
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Saving the Sea Cow
Animals  (tags: sea cows, manatees, endangered, ghana, hunted, disappearing )

Simone
- 1874 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Manatees in Ghana are being slowly wiped out by hunting and loss of habitat. But the very people who kill the elusive aquatic mammal for its meat could be the key to its survival. In 1964, a vast lake was created in south-east Ghana by blocking the
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Coyotes in the American West
Animals  (tags: coyotes, wild animals, survivors, maglined, hunted, killed )

Simone
- 1880 days ago - sinapu.org
The most widely distributed, studied and persecuted species in the world, the coyote is the most successful medium-sized predator on Earth. An average coyote weighs about 35 pounds. Like wolves, coyotes occupy den sites and have a complex family
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Canadian Wolves Sent to Restock U.S. May Be Hunted
Animals  (tags: canadian wolves, restocking, reintroducing, hunted, unprotected, killed, populations )

Simone
- 1911 days ago - theglobeandmail.com
A pioneering group of Canadian wolves sent to the United States to re-establish wolf populations in the Rocky Mountain states has done so well the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled yesterday that they're no longer endangered -- meaning that American
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Tiger Skin Seized in Kerala
Animals  (tags: tiger skins, wildlife trafficking, poachers, cruelty, endangered animals, hunted, killed )

Simone
- 1937 days ago - wpsi-india.org
The skin was of a sub-adult tiger and it is suspected that the animal was killed in the Nilgiri forests two months ago. Four people were arrested, while two others ran away from the scene after throwing down a package, which included the fresh skin of a
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