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Animals News tagged with wildlife trade

Wildlife Crimes Unit! Video!
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, wildlife trade, illegal, death, environment, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 4 days ago - wcs.org
Tigers are fast disappearing in the wild, due in large part to increasing illegal wildlife trade across Asia.
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New Wildlife Trade Rules for Tuna, Sharks Coral & Ivory Proposed - Tanzania & Zambia Want to Allow Elephant Hunting
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, hunting, wildlife trade, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 13 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Elephants, one of WWF's priority species, will be a topic of debate at the CITES CoP as potentially conflicting proposals were submitted for elephants. Kenya submitted a proposal - together with a group of west African countries - that would impose a 19
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Wildlife Authorities in War Against Tiger Poachers
Animals  (tags: wildlife, authorities, poachers, snares, tiger poachers, extinction, wildlife trade )

Simone
- 45 days ago - thestar.com.my
The Perak Wildlife and National Parks Department (Perhilitan) has uncovered and destroyed 47 snares meant for tigers near the Royal Belum rainforest this year alone. State Perhilitan director Shabrina Shariff said the traps were found during its anti-
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Fighting Wildlife Trafficking - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: wildlife trade, business, horrific cruelty, wildlife trafficking, investigation worldwide )

Simone
- 69 days ago - voanews.com
The $20 billion dollar per year illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is second only to arms and drug smuggling in the amount of money it generates. However, the toll this lucrative business takes on our environment, the animals that live in it
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Call for Task Force to Curb Poachers, Wildlife Trade
Animals  (tags: wildlife trade, poaching, task force, protection, endangered, conservation, crime )

Simone
- 87 days ago - news.asiaone.com
In the battle against poachers and the illegal wildlife trade, two non-governmental organisations have called on the government to set up a task force to stamp out the activities. With the recent arrest of a Thai poacher in the Belum-Temengor forest
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Illegal Animal Trading Puts Malaysia on the World Map for All the Wrong Reasons
Animals  (tags: malaysia, wildlife trade, global international, smuggling, endangered animals, destruction, poaching )

Simone
- 106 days ago - thestar.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR: In 2006, Taiwanese authorities seized a three-tonne shipment of ivory from Tanzania worth RM25mil that had transited Penang port. An Indian national who was caught with an illegal consignment of Indian star tortoises at the KL
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ACTION ALERT: Sign the "Don't Buy Wild" Pledge!!!
Animals  (tags: wildlife trade, smuggling, poaching, endangered animals imperiled, threatened, pledge )

Simone
- 109 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
The commercial trade in wild animals is a multi-billion dollar industry that threatens the survival of many species and results in the inhumane treatment of countless animals every year. While shopping (including online) or traveling, you may come
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ACTION ALERT: End Bear Farming in China!!!!
Animals  (tags: chinese bear farms, animal asia, bear bile, bears tortured, killed, imprisoned, wildlife trade )

Simone
- 113 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
It's a torture chamber, it's a hell hole for animals. As you can see they literally can't move, they can't stand up, they can't turn around, they can just about put their paws out of the cage to feed themselves." Jill was witnessing Asiatic Black Bears
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Where Animal Traders Run Wild
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife trade, AnimalWelfare, Kuwait, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 160 days ago - thenational.ae
Kuwait carried out its first animal confiscation last month, seven years after signing up to an international convention to clamp down on the trade in endangered species, a move hailed by conservationists as an important step towards stemming a growing
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Poachers Go High Tech
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife trade, internet, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, habitat )

Cher
- 161 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
With high-tech peddlers increasingly turning to cyberspace an easy route to carry wildlife trade, it's time the enforcement agencies in India wake up to this threat and initiate web patrolling to curb the menace, experts say.
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Wildlife Trade
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife trade, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 168 days ago - hsus.org
The commercial trade in wild animals is a multi-billion dollar business that threatens the survival of many species and results in the inhumane treatment of billions of animals every year. Humane Society International has long been involved in
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Sign the "Don't Buy Wild" Pledge ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife trade, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 168 days ago - community.hsus.org
The commercial trade in wild animals is a multi-billion dollar industry that threatens the survival of many species and results in the inhumane treatment of countless animals every year.
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Vietnam's Commercial Wildlife Farms Threaten Asia's Species
Animals  (tags: asian countries, wildife, disappearing, wildlife farms, exploitated, abused, eaten, killed, wildlife trade, humans, greed )

Simone
- 185 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Commercial wildlife farms are not alleviating pressure on wild populations as claimed by proponents, but exacerbating the problem. Such farms, which rear snakes, turtles, crocodiles, tigers, monkeys, and other--often rare--species, are meant to provide
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Investigating Animal Crimes
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife trade, illegal, crimes, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildanimals, killed )

Cher
- 221 days ago - time.com
Ever wonder where did the feathers on your fancy piece of jewelry came from? What about the ivory in your souvenir statue? The illegal wildlife trade nets about $20 million a year -- less than drugs but more than weapons -- and ounce-for-ounce, some animal
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Environmental Police Learn How To Stop Wildlife Trade
Animals  (tags: environmental police, fighitng, wildlife trade, poachings, trainingendangered, conservation )

Simone
- 222 days ago - bernama.com
Thirty environmental police officers from 28 south and central provinces are taking part in a three-day training workshop to discuss on the threat of wild species being traded through captive-breeding operations, the Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported.
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