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Nepal Emerges as 'Poacher's Paradise'
Animals  (tags: nepal, wildlife, butchered, slaughtered, poachers, poaching, black market trade, tragedy )

Simone
- 1 day ago - google.com
Forest warden Narendra Man Babu Pradhan is on the frontline of Nepal's battle against poachers and he grimaces as he recalls the recent discovery of an injured rhino whose horn had been cut off. "We found a male rhino with bullet in his head around a
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Environmentalists Raise Alarm Over Russia's Siberian Tiger
Animals  (tags: russias, siberian tigers, hunted, poached, endangered, reporrts, environmentalists, tragedy, disappearing )

Simone
- 1 day ago - speroforum.com
In October, the carcass of a young Siberian tiger was found in Russia's Far East with two bullet holes in its skull. Experts say the animal was most probably shot by hunters in pursuit of illegal prey. The finding came ahead of the release of a
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Do Wolves Kill for Sport?
Animals  (tags: wolves, survival, endangered, massacred, tragedy, wildife )

Simone
- 1 day ago - slate.com
During this fall's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Montana, hunters killed the matriarch of a Yellowstone wolf pack that researchers had been studying for more than a decade. Park officials suspect that her mate and three other pack members were also
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About 50 Wolves Killed in Montana Hunt So Far
Animals  (tags: wolves, massacred, montana, wolf killers, slaugher, tragedy, humans, cruelty )

Simone
- 1 day ago - flatheadbeacon.com
About 50 wolves have been taken so far in Montana's wolf hunting season. Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says the state may reach its quota of 75 by the time the season ends Nov. 29. This year's gray wolf hunt,
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ACTION ALERT: A SEAL"S STORY- HELP! TELL THIS STORY TO THE WORLD!!!!
Animals  (tags: harp seals, tragedy, short lives, killed, canadian seal massacre, slaughter, worldwide attention )

Simone
- 10 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
I was born on the ice floes off the east coast of Canada, where the pristine snow-scape stretches out as far as the eye can see. For the first few days, my fluffy coat was as white as the surrounding snow...then after a couple of weeks, it began to turn
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Death of a Wolf Raises Questions About Research
Animals  (tags: deathof wolf, apha wolf, radio collared, controversy, tragedy )

Simone
- 11 days ago - minnpost.com
In life, 527F was reclusive -- even for an alpha-female wolf. Her territory was so remote that researchers studying wolves in Yellowstone National Park rarely saw her. But they knew a lot about her because for five years she wore a radio collar disclosing
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Yellowstone Wolves Fall in Rifle Sights
Animals  (tags: black wolf slaughtered, yellowstone wolves, tragedy, destruction )

Simone
- 13 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
She was a tough, wary wolf. A genius at tactics. Cruel when she had to be, and when you're a wolf, that's pretty often. Wolf 527, a huge, black female, was the alpha female of Yellowstone National Park's Cottonwood pack, until she died earlier this month
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Wild Bear Battered to Death By Villagers After Rampage in India
Animals  (tags: tragedy, humans, invading black bears homes, rampage, attacked, beaten to death )

Simone
- 13 days ago - mirror.co.uk
A wild bear was battered to death by villagers in east India after it mauled seven people, including a child. The animal entered their houses in the village of Kesarapalli in the state of Orissa from the nearby Malati forest early in the morning and
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DFO Defends Poachers, Says They Did Want to Trap Jackal
Animals  (tags: poachers defended, leopard beaten to death, big cats, disappearing, poached, killed, tragedy, tiger reserve )

Simone
- 13 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Drop in temperature could well mean a dip in numbers of big cats. If past incidents are any indication, winter is fast proving to be a killer season for tigers and leopards in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. The brutal battering of a leopard in Motipur village
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Japan Slaughters 59 Whales, Just One Short Of Maximum Allowed
Animals  (tags: japanese whale slaughter, international guidelines, minke whales, butchered, tragedy, cruelty )

Simone
- 20 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Japan's annual whaling expedition off the port city of Kushiro has resulted in the killing of 59 minke whales - just one whale short of the 60 allowed by international guidelines.
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IFAW: More Than 100 Elephants a Day Still Slaughtered By Poachers- 20 Years After Ivory Ban
Animals  (tags: african elephants, butchered, slaughtered, extinction, wild animals, 104 killed a day, tragedy, horrific )

Simone
- 20 days ago - politics.co.uk
Despite ivory trade being banned 20 years ago (today) a shocking 104 elephants are still being killed every day for their tusks.
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Kings of the Jungle Fight for Survival
Animals  (tags: big cats, africa, disappearing, tragedy, fighting for survival, extinction, poaching )

Simone
- 24 days ago - nation.co.ke
They may be kings of the jungle but now, conservationists say, lions in some of Kenya's most scenic parks are reduced to fighting for their lives. Africa's wild lion population is in trouble. And their population could disappear in the next 20 years
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Aerial Gunning of Wolf Pack in Montana Isolates Yellowstone Wolves, Undermines Recovery
Animals  (tags: aerial killing, gunning, destruction, wolf pack, montana, wolves, tragedy, survival )

Simone
- 29 days ago - biologicaldiversity.org
This week's aerial gunning of the last four members of the Sage Creek wolf pack in southwestern Montana contributes to the genetic isolation of wolves in Yellowstone National Park - even as, on Thursday, the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commission
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Captive Pet Bear Kills Woman While She Was Cleaning Cage
Animals  (tags: tragedy, pet black bear, captive, caged, attacked, killed woman, wild animals )

Simone
- 33 days ago - examiner.com
A Pennsylvania woman cleaning out a bear cage on Sunday night was mauled and killed by the 350-pound captive black bear who was confined inside. To compound the tragedy, her children and a neighbor's children witnessed the horrific incident and called
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Botswana Wildlife Declines By A Staggering 90% -Report
Animals  (tags: bostwana, reports, tragedy, wildife, dyiing, killed, poaching, hunting, 90% )

Simone
- 33 days ago - mmegi.bw
Botswana may be famous world wide as a big game country, with the highest number of elephants in Africa, but a report produced by Botswana's National Vision 2016 Council has revealed the population of over 11 wildlife species has been dwindling by as
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