Critter News
MARCH 13, 2009
Brazil is one of the world's hotspots for animal smuggling because of its rich diversity of animals. Tags: wildlife crime smuggling brazil trafficking latin america. Police said it was the biggest single operation in the past decade against rampant illegal wildlife traffic in the South American country.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
Such is the story of his visit to Senhor Jonas D’Abronzo, whose home, at the end of that long, muddy, undulating track outside Ubatuba, Brazil, is also home to the Festive Coquette, a near-threatened species with a limited range along the southeast coast of Brazil.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
A man was arrested at the airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil after 200 canaries were found in his suitcase. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking. Sixty of them were dead from suffocation and thirst. How horrible.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
Like a shy stepchild, it’s always eclipsed by the wonders of Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc. Plate 97: Andean and partly Andean antshrikes, illustrated by Oscar Tintaya. Bolivia doesn’t come up much in discussions of birding travel.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Lendrum is charismatic and obsessed.
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