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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop declared 2010 to be the Year of the Tiger. The intention is to focus on saving the tiger species which is being decimated. Tags: Traditional Chinese Medicine poaching tigers china endangered species. I say so what? It's just lip service. So what if the tiger gets its own year?

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2010 Tigers China Endangered Species 100

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MAY 4, 2010

Tags: louisiana 2010 oil spill Gulf of Mexico endangered species. Here's a slideshow of the most imperiled animals.

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Louisiana Endangered Species Wildlife 2010 100

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MAY 4, 2010

Tags: louisiana oil drilling 2010 oil spill endangered species. She's calling for MORE frigging oil drilling in spite of the catastrophe in the Gulf. I'd like to shove her face in a vat of oil and not bring her up for a long, long time.

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Louisiana Endangered Species 2010 Tagged 100

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MAY 28, 2010

This time, it's the Alaotra grebe from Madagascar, according to the 2010 IUCN Red List update for birds, by BirdLife International. The report has bad news for bird species all around, identifying 12.5 percent as being endangered. Tags: birds extinction endangered species.

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Species Madagascar Endangered Species 2010 100

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Reduced to Skin and Bones (PDF, 4 MB) shows that from January 2000 to April 2010, parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 Tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range countries—or an average of 104 to 119 animals per year. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china endangered species.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

both 2009 and 2010, the team located around 200 Spoon-billed Sandpipers-the majority of the world population-wintering in Myanmar, most of them in the Bay of Martaban where local people target wading birds for food. Tags: birds hunting endangered species.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

BFUSA’s mission is to end suffering of wild animals in captivity, conserve threatened and endangered species, and encourage compassionate conservation globally. Tags: born free fur fashion. Received this press release yesterday.

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