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Hitchhiking Vietnam : The Animal Market
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, Illegal Animal Trade, protection, extinction, animal welfare, environment, habitat )

Cher
- 277 days ago - pbs.org
It is illegal to buy, sell, trade, or own an endangered animal in Vietnam. Nevertheless, the "Exotic Animal Market" is a prominent and permanent structure in the middle of Saigon and even gets listed in the tourist guidebooks.
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UAE Officials Step Up Fight Against Illegal Animal Trade
Animals  (tags: shahtoosh shawls, illegal animal trade, death, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 507 days ago - iar.org.uk
Officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have revealed that they have completed a project designed to improve the way authorities identify rare and protected animals.
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Zoo Director Accused of Breeding Animals for Sale and Slaughter
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalCruelty, Illegal Animal Trade, slaughter, zoo breeding, killing )

Anita
- 623 days ago - envirolink.org
THE director of Berlin Zoo was accused yesterday of overbreeding animals and selling the "spares" to be slaughtered in China and Europe.
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Tiger Numbers Fall But Tiger Market Grows
Animals  (tags: tigers, body parts, illegal animal trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, endangered, extinction, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 627 days ago - merinews.com
WHILE THE number of tigers on earth is diminishing alarmingly, the international market trade in tiger body parts is experiencing a higher growth. The statement seems to be paradoxical but the fact remains that one pelt of the tiger sells at 8000
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AAF - China Bear Rescue
Animals  (tags: illegal bear bile trade, bears, Illegal Animal Trade, Vietnam Bear Farming, Asian Bear Farming, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, suffering, cruelty, death, endangered, ethics, extinction, society, wildlife, sadness, slaughter, law )

Julie
- 630 days ago - animalsasia.org
Today,there are 3,410 farmed bears in Vietnam (90% of which are Moon Bears) with another 602 captive bears used for display purposes. Illegal poaching of bears has caused the numbers of both species to decline dramatically. The adult bears are dying slowl
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Lemur Smugglers Caught in Southwest Russia
Animals  (tags: lemurs, smuggling, illegal animal trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 652 days ago - en.rian.ru
A group of smugglers were caught red-handed by customs officers in Belgorod, a city in southwest Russia, with exotic monkeys in their baggage on Ukraine's border with Russia. Several men were transporting lemurs in their car," a spokesman for the customs
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Indonesia Failing to Halt Tiger Decline: Conservationists
Animals  (tags: tigers, poaching, laws, illegal animal trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, endangered, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 660 days ago - afp.google.com
Indonesia has failed to stop poaching of endangered Sumatran tigers, with body parts of the big cats for sale at retail outlets on the island they call home, a wildlife group warned Wednesday. Despite a national law against trade in tiger parts, a survey
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Chinese Animal Protection Authorities Target Online Wild Animal Trade
Animals  (tags: tigers, illegal animal trade, online, animals, AnimalWelfare, endangered, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 660 days ago - news.xinhuanet.com
Chinese animal protection authorities have joined with international organizations to target on-line trade involving wild animals, government sources said on Wednesday.
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Sale of Sumatran Tiger Body Parts Leading to Extinction
Animals  (tags: tigers, illegal animal trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, endangered, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 660 days ago - inthenews.co.uk
International laws aimed at protecting endangered tiger are failing, a report has claimed. Only 400 Sumatran tigers are left in the world and a wildlife monitoring network has claimed that the trade of their body parts in Indonesia is increasing the
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Israeli Conservationist Works to Put Animal Traders Behind Bars [VIDEO]
Animals  (tags: activist, animals, AnimalWelfare, illegal animal trade, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 662 days ago - israel21c.org
Eight years ago Ofir Drori, now 31, set off for Africa. He was looking for adventure and work as a photojournalist. Inspired by animal right's activists Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Israeli Drori got in deeper than he expected.
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