Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Sad, but at least the government is trying to help these animals. Tags: wildlife trafficking thailand.

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Critter News

JANUARY 15, 2010

In charging documents filed in King County Superior Court, prosecutors contend Dr. Tohru Shigemura made repeated trips to Washington to hunt bear, taking animals out of season and on tribal lands. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 27, 2009

Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species is an interesting read about the world’s first wildlife forensics lab. It’s a book that can appeal to both animal lovers and suspense lovers because it combines both.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2012

Thankfully, there are some organizations out there that make it their business to look after and care for our animal counterparts. Proving that society’s conscience hasn’t been completely compromised, these companies and their employees make it a point to put animals first. Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

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Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

pleaded guilty in March to five counts of trafficking in wild animals. Attorney Julia Dudley said Blevins had bought animals for several years from trappers in different states and brought them to Virginia to sell to the owners of "fox pens." Tags: wildlife trafficking blood sport fox hunting us. A statement from U.S.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Sher Singh, one of the kingpins of the countrywide wildlife trafficking racket involved in stealing eight common marmosets from Alipore Zoo on August 9, walked off a train in the wee hours of Friday. Sure doesn't sound like these guys take wildlife trafficking very seriously. Now this guy gets to commit more crimes against animals.

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Critter News

JULY 19, 2010

A police raid that uncovered 42 stolen vehicles and a mini-zoo of exotic animals in Taman Wahyu here yesterday is proof that wildlife trafficking is linked to organised crime, said wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC. Tags: organized crime wildlife trafficking malaysia. From the Malaysian Insider.

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Critter News

APRIL 30, 2010

(Sounds like these guys were orphaned as a result of bushmeat and illegal trafficking activities.) Frankly, with the rate these poor animals are being decimated, I wonder sometimes if they SHOULD be released back into the wild. Tags: wildlife trafficking united nations bush meat congo gorillas.

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Critter News

AUGUST 25, 2009

Illegal wildlife traffickers provide fake credentials to establish that primates are being legitimately offered for sale. And let's not even talk about all the internet sales of trophies and animal parts. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking africa primates endangered species cameroon.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

Tags: wildlife crime exotic pets wildlife trafficking animal cruelty orangutans pet trade endangered species.

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Critter News

MARCH 13, 2009

Brazilian federal police arrested 72 people on Wednesday on suspicion of running an international smuggling ring that traded half a million wild animals, including jaguars and monkeys, each year. Brazil is one of the world's hotspots for animal smuggling because of its rich diversity of animals.

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Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

Detectives seized 200 products believed to be made from endangered animals including musk deer, leopards and tigers. The regulations closed a legal loophole which enabled traders to pretend animal products came from countries with lower levels of protection. Not surprisingly, they raided a shop selling Chinese traditional medicines.

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Critter News

MAY 16, 2009

Over 1,000 animals were rescued, including 500 bull finches and 300 picoplats, The rescued wildlife also included monkeys, parrots, macaws and other species from Venezuela. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime trafficking. There was also over 400 lbs of "wild meat" (I don't want to know what that could be!).

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2010

Police seized tiger bones, anteater scales and bear gall bladders in an international operation against the use of endangered plants and animals in traditional medicine, officers said Friday. Illegal animal and plant products with a retail value of 10 million euros (13.6 From the AFP.

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Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2008

Amy, a German shepherd, and Uno, a Labrador retriever, have joined the team at {Frankfurt,} one of Europe's busiest airports — the first two dogs in Germany trained to sniff out live animals, plants or derivatives or remains of them. Tags: wildlife trafficking smuggling Germany. That's huge.

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Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

whether it be animal rights or human rights. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue. What kind of protection do they really mean? You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." I'm too, too cynical.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangered species. This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

It was not a big haul but an important one as illegal trade of beautiful and small animals as pets is going on, thus adversely affecting the conservation efforts," Deputy Director of WCCB Ramesh Pandey said. Tags: wildlife crime forensics India wildlife trafficking.

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Critter News

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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Critter News

AUGUST 25, 2008

State wildlife officials are investigating a possible poaching case in which someone removed the gallbladder of a black bear -- which can sell for thousands of dollars in Asia -- after the animal was struck and killed this week by a car in the Lake Tahoe area.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 20, 2008

The temple says the money goes toward caring for the tigers (each animal eats 13 pounds of meat a day) and construction of "Tiger Island," where it is hoped the tigers will soon move to live in larger enclosures.A accuses} the temple of illegally trafficking and mistreating the tigers, allegations that the temple emphatically denies.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Consequences of wildlife crime are far reaching, with the profits from the illegal trade of plants and animals used to fund other criminal activities such as drug smuggling and people trafficking. Its eight officers cover the whole of the UK.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Elizabeth Bradfield’s “Buried Birds” muses on seabirds as a way of understanding feelings of difference, giving one of the book’s finest quotes: “We resonate with certain animals, I believe, because they are physical embodiment of an answer we are seeking.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 2, 2009

The central message of the program was not about enslaving animals, of course. But each time Oprah or a guest mentioned a statistic, and the audience was appropriately surprised and disgusted by that statistic, a statistic about animals quickly popped into my mind. Our job, it seems to me, is to help them see it.

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