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Asian Affluence Drives African Big Game Poaching
Animals  (tags: Poaching, Elephants, Rhino, poachers, Asia, africa )

Jill
- 27 days ago - bizcommunity.com
Ivory and rhino horn and skin - boiled and ingested - have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine, which is practiced not only in Chinese communities but increasingly by other ethnic groups around the world
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Fighting A Last-Ditch Battle To Save the Rare Javan Rhino
Animals  (tags: rhinos, endangered, ivory trade, habitat loss, poaching, protection, slaughter, wildlife, wildanimals, killing, sadness, AnimalWelfare, animals, animalrights, animalwelfare, dogs, animalcruelty, humans, habitat )

Cal
- 28 days ago - e360.yale.edu
Rhinoceroses worldwide are under siege as their habitat shrinks and poachers slaughter hundreds annually for their valuable horns. Now, in Indonesia, conservation groups are engaged in a desperate struggle to save the last 40 Javan rhinos on earth.
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African Big Game Poaching Surges on Asian Affluence
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, poaching, africa, elephants, rhinos, Asian ivory trade, greed, humans, sadness, slaughter, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, killing, animalrights, AnimalWelfare, animalcruelty )

Cal
- 30 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Elephant and rhino poaching is surging, conservationists say, an illegal piece of Asia's scramble for African resources, driven by the growing purchasing power of the region's newly affluent classes.
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South Africa Rhino Poaching Targeted By Tightened Hunting Rules
Animals  (tags: poaching, South Africa, rhinos, horns, money, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, endangered, cruelty, death, environment, wildlife, suffering, protection )

Lindsey
- 39 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South Africa says it is tightening hunting rules to try to combat illegal rhinoceros horn trading. An environmental affairs ministry statement issued Monday said hunters applying for licenses must provide proof of hunting experience,
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South Africa: Dogs Sniff Out Poachers
Animals  (tags: wildlife, poaching, dogsanimals )

Jill
- 49 days ago - wildcard.co.za
Foxhounds have excellent tracking abilities and the three dogs are being trained to ignore animal spoor in favour of their human quarry.
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Save the Rhinos! ACTION
Animals  (tags: rhinos, protection, endangered, wildlife, poaching, animalcruelty )

Nancy
- 56 days ago - avaaz.org
The situation is so dire that the threat has even spread into British zoos who are on red-alert for rhino killing gangs! Let's raise a giant outcry and urge Europe to push for new protections to save rhinos from extinction.
72 comments
Stop Poaching Rhinos! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: rhinos, poaching, horns, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, conservation, endangered, cruelty, death, killing, suffering, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 57 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Sumatran Rhinocerous is critically endangered. Once numerous throughout Southeast Asia, fewer than 275 remain due to illegal poaching for its horn.
71 comments
Virunga National Park: British Firm to Drill for Oil!
Animals  (tags: wildlife, protection, gorillas, poaching, habitat destruction environment, endangered, conservation )

Jill
- 66 days ago - allafrica.com
Undertaking oil exploration or exploitation on the ground in a UNESCO World Heritage site constitutes a breach of the Convention on World Heritage, as well as DRC's own laws and constitution
27 comments
Join The Elpephant March. SAY NO TO IVORY!
Animals  (tags: animals, Elephants, elephant, wildlife, poaching, ivory )

Raymond
- 82 days ago - ifaw.org
Every day an Elephant is killed for IVORY! As you may already be aware, Elephant's are being poached more and more for their tusk.
20 comments
End The Poaching And Smuggling Of Rhino Horns. WHAT THEY DO IS SICK. SIGN NOW!
Animals  (tags: rhino, horns, poaching, protection, slaughter, wildanimals, wildlife, suffering, sadness, environment, animalcruelty, abused, killing, animalrights, africa, crime, death, cruelty )

Jim
- 88 days ago - forcechange.com
Poaching of rhinoceros for their horns in southern Africa has been on the rise. Horns are smuggled and sold to buyers who believe the horns hold medical properties. This week seven arrests were made in four states following an 18 month investigation by
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Bouba Ndjida National Park Elephants Killed In Poaching Spree, Activists Claim
Animals  (tags: Poaching, Killing, mutilation, AnimalCruelty, conservation, death, endangered, protection, slaughter, wildlife )

Vivien
- 96 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Wildlife activists say poachers have slaughtered at least 200 elephants in four weeks in an ongoing killing spree in a Cameroonian national park.
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Stop the Senseless Slaughter of Elephants! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: elephant, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, poaching, cruelty, death, protection, wildlife, slaughter, killing )

Lindsey
- 99 days ago - change.org
Recent news reports show that poachers have gone on a killing spree -- slaughtering over 200 elephants in Cameroon National Park. The slaughter was first discovered when scores of baby elephants, who lost their parents to poachers, were seen abandoned..
102 comments
South Africa: Pregnant Rhino Killed in 2nd Attack
Animals  (tags: wildlife, poaching, rhino, suffering )

Jill
- 101 days ago - news24.com
When we got back to the crime scene, we found that they first shot the 2-year-old calf and when she went down, the mother stood over her, [the poachers shot] the mother as well," Otto said.
38 comments
South Africa: Six Rhinos Dead in One Week
Animals  (tags: wildlife, poaching, rhino, suffering )

Jill
- 101 days ago - legalbrief.co.za
In spite of heightened attempts to combat the rhino poaching scourge in SA, six rhinos died last week, writes Legalbrief.
35 comments
Southern Africa: South Africa and Mozambique Discuss Poaching
Animals  (tags: wildlife, poaching, rhino, suffering )

Jill
- 103 days ago - allafrica.com
Mozambican and South African ministers have held discussions in Pretoria on how to fight against rhino poaching, the official South African agency "BuaNews" reported on Wednesday.
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