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 Animals  Tom - 5 days ago - thenational.ae An increasing number of plants and animals are facing extinction due to pollution, poaching, habitat degradation and climate change. The number of threatened mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish has grown to 5,966, compared to 3,314 in 1998.
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 Animals  Jacquelin - 5 days ago - msnbc.msn.com CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The South African government said Thursday that it will press ahead with plans to sell just over 51 tons of ivory to China and Japan under a special exemption to the international ban on the trade.
The Convention on Internatio
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 Animals  Julie - 25 days ago - bornfree.org.uk The elephant was female, aged about 27. She was 20 months pregnant. On 14th June 2008 poachers shot her with poisoned metal arrows & followed her as she stumbled miles through the African bush. After 2 days of agony she dropped. She tried to give birth to
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 Animals Julie - 26 days ago - bornfree.org.uk A death knell has sounded for elephants. A savage new bloodbath is underway by ruthless ivory poachers. And the UK signed the death warrant. I'm stunned, but I'm also determined. Elephants need us, to help visit www.bornfree.org.uk/give/autumn-appeal/
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 Animals Julie - 26 days ago - bornfree.org.uk A new wave of slaughter...big business for ivory in CHINA. In July, at CITES¹ 'Standing Committee' meeting, China & Japan were approved to buy
'legal' ivory from Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The UK voted in favour of CHINA.
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 Animals Tom - 33 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk An African animal so secretive it was once believed to be a mythical unicorn has been caught on camera in the wild. The last official sighting in the area was nearly 50 years ago. The species is under threat and could become extinct within a few years.
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 Animals Tom - 44 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com Since the beginning of this year, armed groups, soldiers, and poachers have killed 10 percent of the elephants in Congo's troubled Virunga National Park--allegedly driven by rising Chinese demand for ivory--park officials say. The announcement raises fears
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 Animals  Kristi - 53 days ago - latimes.com State wildlife officials say the organ was removed from a black bear that had been struck by a vehicle and whose carcass was left at the roadside. The item can sell for thousands in Asia.
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 Animals  Michael - 74 days ago - enn.com African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today
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 Animals  Cher - 96 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com "Tiger bones and body parts -- penis, testicles, canines -- all highly valued in the illegal international market, were part of the haul. The tiger's fat was also kept in a bottle. It was a fresh kill," says B S Gurum, assistant director, WCCB,
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 Animals Cher - 98 days ago - dnaindia.com At least 48 cases of poaching of wild animals were registered and 42 people were arrested in that connection in Chhattisgarh in the last two years, Chhattisgarh Assembly was informed on Tuesday.
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 Animals Cher - 104 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com <p>Hit by rampant poaching and a rocketing trade in organs, the number of tigers is plummeting in Nepal, that once boasted of the third-largest population of the big cats, a government survey has said. </p>
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 Animals Cher - 108 days ago - redorbit.com Snow leopards in Afghanistan have barely survived extinction despite three decades of war, but now they're facing a new threat: foreigners who are flocking in to rebuild the war-torn country.
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 Animals Cher - 109 days ago - wildlifeextra.com 19 African elephant range states have held a consultative meeting - the third in two years - in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa to re-affirm the anti-ivory trade Bamako Declaration signed in February 2007 in Mali.
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 Animals Cher - 116 days ago - iar.org.uk Officials in Russia have revealed that maritime border guards have detained two boats on suspicion of poaching.
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