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Animals News tagged with south korea

ACTION ALERT: Help End the Slaughter of Dogs for Their Meat!!
Animals  (tags: south korea, dogs slaughtered, dog suffering, dog meat, animal advocates, horrendous cruelty )

Simone
- 25 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
There are over 6,000 restaurants in South Korea which serve dog meat. This is illegal but they do not get shut down. There is currently a petition going on which is trying to gather 1,000,000 signatures to increase pressure to shut down this horrible
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ACTION ALERT: Petition - To Stop 2 Million Dogs Being Brutally Killed in South Korea Every Year!!!
Animals  (tags: south korea, korean dogs, cats, brutally, savagely killed, slaughter, torture, untied dogs, petition, laws, animal welfare )

Simone
- 137 days ago - serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com
Over 2 million dogs are brutally killed in South Korea every year. That's over 5,000 dogs a day who get strangled, burned, electrocuted or beaten to death for their meat. The South Korean government has accepted Animal Protection Laws which make
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Russia Can Hand Over Several Amur Tigers to South Korea
Animals  (tags: animals, amur tigers, Russia, South Korea, AnimalWelfare, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 148 days ago - itar-tass.com
Russia can hand over several Amur tigers to South Korea, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting devoted to environment protection and ecological security here on Sunday.
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Siberian Tiger Breeding Project Starts Again
Animals  (tags: animals, tigers, South Korea, AnimalWelfare, breeding program, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 235 days ago - koreatimes.co.kr
South Korea has resumed a breeding project for endangered Siberian tigers, which had widely inhabited the Korean peninsula until the early 1900s.
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We May Start Whaling If Japan Gets to: S. Korea
Animals  (tags: south korea, japan, whales, whaling, endangered, extinction, protection, sadness, suffering, slaughter, humans, AnimalCruelty )

Jacquelin
- 289 days ago - edmontonjournal.com
ROME - South Korea said it may start commercial whaling if Japan wins a controversial compromise with the International Whaling Commission, observers to a meeting of the body said Wednesday. Under the compromise, Japan would be allowed to hunt whales
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Fish With Human Faces Spotted in South Korea
Animals  (tags: south korea, fish, human face )

Jacquelin
- 300 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The "humanoid" carp are attracting attention in the town of Chongju in the centre of the country where they live in a small pond. They are believed to be hybrid descendants of two carp species - the carp and the leather carp, also known as a tangerine
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Cloned Dogs Being Groomed as Customs Sniffers
Animals  (tags: dogs, South Korea, cloned, training, sniffers, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, pets, protection )

Cher
- 614 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
South Korean customs officials have announced that the seven dogs they have cloned (six are pictured here,fighting over a rag) are now being trained as sniffers for their customs agency. The dogs were born after the country's customs service paid a
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Stop Illegal Cat and Dog Torture in South Korea! Sign Petition!
Animals  (tags: cats, dogs, torture, South Korea, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 632 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In South Korea, more than 2.6 million cats and dogs are brutally killed and eaten illegally every year. Often times, their killing includes hanging by the neck, beatings with pipes and hammers, and electrocution. Cats are boiled alive, and dogs are
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Protest Over Dog Meat Legislation in South Korea
Animals  (tags: dogs, protest, against dog meat, dog killed, massacre, animal advocates, government, south korea )

Simone
- 642 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Protesters from the Korea Association for Animal Protection participate in a demonstration near the Seoul city hall. The protest was held to oppose the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which will propose to the central government that dogs be categorized
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South Korea Arrests Three for Illegal Whale Trade
Animals  (tags: south korea, marine wildlife, whales, whaling, endangered, extinction, illegal )

Jacquelin
- 648 days ago - signonsandiego.com
SEOUL - South Korean police have arrested three fishermen who are suspected of running a ring that traded in illegal whale meat, a coast guard official said on Tuesday. South Korea prohibits commercial whaling and can send poachers to jail for up to thr
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First Order for Pet Dog Cloning
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, comercial cloning, South Korea )

Ingrid
- 674 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A South Korean company says it has taken its first order for the cloning of a pet dog.
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SKorean Police Seize Tonnes of Whale Meat: Official
Animals  (tags: whales, illegal poaching, killing, South Korea, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, slaughter, suffering, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 715 days ago - afp.google.com
Police have broken an illegal whale poaching racket, confiscating more than 50 tonnes of Minke meat in the largest seizure of its kind in South Korea, an official said Saturday. Police said they had raided two warehouses in the southeastern port of Ulsan
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Cloned Cats Glow in the Dark - South Korea
Animals  (tags: cat, cats, cloning, glowing, south korea, scientists, Turkish Angora )

Chrissy
- 746 days ago - news.com.au
SOUTH Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases. In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams.
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Test Kit Targets Cruel Bear Trade
Animals  (tags: animalabuse, AnimalWelfare, endangered, cruelty, bears, China, Vietnam, South Korea, bile, traditional medicine, alternative medicine )

Dragonque
- 930 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Wildlife campaigners are turning to science in a bid to halt bear farming. A test kit will detect the presence of material from bears in medicines or other products. It's believed more than 12,000 bears are kept on farms in China, Vietnam and South Korea.
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Huge Sea Wall Puts Wading Birds in Danger of Starving
Animals  (tags: south korea, sea wall, wading birds, wildlife )

Jacquelin
- 960 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Two species of wading bird could be driven to extinction because the world's largest land reclamation project has destroyed a critical staging post on their migration route, conservationists said yesterday. The completion of a 33-mile (53km) sea wall t
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