my care2
make a difference

causes & news

news network

socially conscious news and video shared and rated by the community

Wildlife's News

Animals News

Rare Amur Leopard Caught on Camera
Animals  (tags: animals, cats, conservation, GoodNews )

Jacinthe
- 1 day ago - wa.convio.net
After traveling to the deer farm and setting up camera traps, the Khasan Team received a rare glimpse of one of the world's most endangered large cats...the elusive Amur leopard
Illegal Wildlife Trade - Too Cute for Their Own Good
Animals  (tags: endangered animals, wildlife, threatened, black market trade, killed, disappearing, wildlife trade )

Simone
- 29 days ago - current.com
Cotton-top tamarins are smaller than spider monkeys, but they are equally charming, with outsize feet and shocks of wild white hair. They, too, are losing habitat at an alarming rate. According to Anne Savage, Senior Conservation Biologist for Disney
Dead Bear's Gallbladder Removed in Possible Tahoe Poaching Case
Animals  (tags: bears, poaching )

Kristi
- 48 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.
Two Charged for Tiger Smuggling in Vietnam
Animals  (tags: tigers, smuggling, charges, Vietnam, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, endangered, extinction, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 90 days ago - iar.org.uk
Two people from Vietnam have been charged with smuggling tigers. The thanhniennews.com website cites a report in local paper Tuoi Tre that revealed that Nguyen Quoc Truong and Nguyen Thi Thuy Mui have been prosecuted for smuggling both live and dead
Illicit Trade in Big Cat Skins Continues in China
Animals  (tags: tigers, skins, illegal wildife trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, death, environment, protection, endangered, habitat, extinction, wildlife, wildanimals, killed )

Cher
- 88 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The skins of snow leopards, leopards and tigers are openly on sale in shops, an investigation has revealed. Buyers come from all over China to purchase the skins which are marketed as rugs or taxidermy specimens.
UAE Officials Step Up Fight Against Illegal Animal Trade
Animals  (tags: shahtoosh shawls, illegal animal trade, death, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 86 days ago - iar.org.uk
Officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have revealed that they have completed a project designed to improve the way authorities identify rare and protected animals.
China: Tons of Elephant Ivory Missing
Animals  (tags: elephants, ivory, China )


- 90 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
The "shortfall" in ivory described in the document between 1991 and 2002 -- equal to the tusks from about 11,000 dead elephants -- could provide fodder for representatives of a U.N. accord to reject China's attempt next week to gain permission to import
Fears for Future of African Elephant as UN Prepares to Legalise China Ivory Sales
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, animalrights, protection, elephants, ivory trade )

Beatrice
- 91 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Succumbing to the massive Chinese demand for ivory carvings and trinkets is likely to give an enormous boost to the illegal, poaching-based trade, conservationists have warned. They say if China becomes an approved ivory trading partner, African eleph
China Loses Track of 121 Tons of Ivory
Animals  (tags: china, wildanimals, wildlife, elephants, ivory, lost track, illegal markets, endangered, extinction, protection, humans, sadness, slaughter )

Jacquelin
- 89 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
UNITED NATIONS - China's government lost track of 121 tons of elephant ivory over a dozen years that probably were sold on illegal markets, according to a previously undisclosed Chinese report to UN regulatory officials. The "shortfall" in ivory descri
 
 
Content and comments expressed here are the opinions of Care2 users and not necessarily that of Care2.com or its affiliates.
Wildlife Alliance

Wildlife A.
Wildlife's contributions:
Stories noted recently:
Stories submitted:

inspiring articles from gaia

Wildlife's contributions
Stories submitted: 26
Front Page stories: 4
Noted in Past Week: 1
Analyst Ratio* : 0%
* Analyst Ratio is based on success in Note-ing news stories in the past week that make the Front Page, before they are promoted to the Front Page.

care2 news network tools

News Network Bookmarklet

Submit stories from your browser toolbar with the easy to use Add to Care2 News! bookmarklet.

News Network Syndication

Get this page in RSS. Keep up to date with the Care2 News Network in your favorite RSS reader. Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines, and more!
Find out how to subscribe!

Get a Care2 Tee




Copyright © 2008 Care2.com, inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved