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Critter News
JULY 22, 2010
China is currently experiencing its biggest oil spill ever too. China's largest oil spill has spread to 430 square kilometers (166 square miles) hundreds of clean up workers struggle to cope. China Central Television earlier reported an estimate of 1,500 tons of oil has spilled. From Today Online.
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Critter News
JANUARY 4, 2010
India’s newfound partnership with China on environment issues has yielded results in the area of tiger protection as well. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. From the Economic Times (part of the India Times, I think). What kind of protection do they really mean? I'm too, too cynical.
Critter News
JANUARY 8, 2009
Tags: zoos pandas china. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It's the third visitor the panda has bitten. Maybe the Beijing Zoo should start protecting the panda more so it doesn't have to protect itself from these idiots.
Critter News
DECEMBER 18, 2008
Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty china monkeys. If only they could have escaped to a better life.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
Here is an interesting article about research out of Sweden that suggests that all domesticated dogs may have originated from China. Tags: china. That is the proposal of a team of geneticists led by Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Critter News
AUGUST 22, 2008
Tags: Beijing Olympics china. This is why I want NOTHING to do with the Beijing Olympics.and, no, it's not just about the animals. I'll be glad when this marketing blitz is over. Then the American sponsors will be happy and we can get back to normal.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 28, 2010
From TRAFFIC, Customs officers from Russia and China met last week to strengthen international co-operation in tackling cross-border smuggling of Tigers and other wildlife products. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking tigers china russia.
Critter News
JULY 13, 2009
From the China Daily. Eating wild animals is also a traditional practice in southern China. Tags: wildlife smuggling Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers exotic meat china endangered species. The Chinese want them for exotic foods and for medicine. Up to 20 percent of these are now considered threatened.
Critter News
JANUARY 14, 2010
Shea said by telephone from China today. That's what we're doing in China. Tags: canada. Of course, we're disappointed in their actions," Ms. That being said, there are many other markets out there. We're trying to expand on the market that's here." Maybe they can start trading them for bear gall bladders and tiger parts.
Critter News
JANUARY 28, 2010
Tags: meat cats dogs china. The legislation is only being drafted right now and there's a long way to go I suspect before such laws would pass. You can already read the excuses being cited in this article.
Animal Person
JANUARY 27, 2010
Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats. He often has insight into why something might be different in action than what I think in theory when it comes to China. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics Food and Drink. What do you think?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2014
Some of the migratory shorebirds will make a stopover in the Mai Po Nature Reserve and the Deep Bay area of Hong Kong, China. Another useful website in China is here. Once again these tiny 5 gram satellite tags were deployed and since 2011 they have tracked the incredible journeys of several Cuckoos.
Critter News
JUNE 13, 2009
The load included 173 bear paws, one python skin and the carcass of a pangolin — a type of sticky-tongued, toothless, nocturnal anteater that is a menu item in southern China. Bear paws are also considered a delicacy in southern China where exotic animals are favored by diners despite the impact on populations of endangered species.
Critter News
APRIL 27, 2010
They recently moved into China two years ago where they established a toxicology and drug-testing facility in Shanghai. I'm not surprised Charles River wants to move into China. The USDA here may be sadly wanting in its animal welfare oversight, but it is heaven compared to the vaccuum in China.
Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Only from China could you get TWO atrocities in one. Tags: fur china food. Not only did tainted milk kill 1,500 raccoon dogs (they really look like raccoons), but these dogs were being raised for their FUR!
Critter News
MARCH 25, 2010
It's unfortunate, but true, thanks primarily to Japan and China. Tags: CITES marine animals Japan china endangered species. The opening line in this USA Today article says it all, "Every proposal to protect marine species at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species meeting in Doha, Qatar was voted down."
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2009
They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits. Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point? China is the single biggest threat to the tiger and it won't participate seriously in its protection. It's just lip service. So what if the tiger gets its own year?
Critter News
MARCH 23, 2010
China, by far the world’s largest consumer of the cartilaginous fish, for sharkfin soup, and Japan, which has battled to keep the convention from being extended to any marine species, led the opposition. Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan china endangered species. This really sucks. According to the New York Times.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis. Tags: china. The animals, at at Hangzhou Zoo near Shanghai, developed kidney stones after being fed milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine.
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
Again, the China connection. Tags: taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine bear bile china asia. Please note that the illegal bile farm was Taiwanese-owned. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. Thank Animals Asia for the rescue. They are an amazing organization that we support financially.).
Critter News
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
Of the 11, India, China and Nepal ranked highest in the number of tiger part seizures, the report states, with India by far the highest number of Tiger part seizures at 276, representing between 469 and 533 Tigers. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china endangered species.
Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
I received this from Chris in China, and it underscores the importance of posting videos beyond YouTube. Dear MFA, Youtube.com is blocked in China. For farm animals, China is America 2.0 Please consider posting your videos on a Vimeo channel as well, so we can embed them on sites in China. in the worst way.
Critter News
OCTOBER 2, 2009
Officials say the sales have fuelled demand for ivory in Asian countries, especially China, contributing to a sharp increase in elephant poaching. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa Kenya china asia elephants traf. Elephants are being screwed by Asian demand for ivory. It's a mess. From the BBC.
Critter News
MARCH 2, 2010
Tags: tigers china endangered species. It's the Year of the Tiger on the Chinese calendar and there's plenty of talk and meetings going around. But what does it really mean if you and I don't engage in saving this beautiful animal?
Critter News
MARCH 25, 2009
Tags: Gerbils china. Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to try to cut back the rodents' exploding numbers. The gerbils, officials say, are threatening the fragile desert ecosystem in the vast Xinjiang region.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2008
China was awarded the Olympics on the condition that they would meet certain standards of behavior. Tags: china. I did have issues with the host country in this case because of the horrible way they treat animals, and their lack of any animal cruelty laws. I don't foresee any changes in the near future on that front.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Tags: cambodia bush meat china monkeys endangered species. Why am I not surprised that they were going to Chinese restaurants?
Critter News
AUGUST 30, 2009
Tags: wildlife crime Traditional Chinese Medicine trafficking china malaysia. "We believe the animals were destined to be sold to Asian countries for their meat, as well as their scales to be used as traditional medicine," the department's enforcement chief Saharudin Anan told AFP.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
And here I've been yelling at China all this time. (Be Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) From Alternet.org. The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
It's so easy to forget how BIG that was what with China and wolf-hatin' Palin. Tags: Michael Vick. I slapped my forehead, "Oh yeah!" As for Sick Vick himself, he filed for bankruptcy in July and the contents of a storage unit were sold to pay his bills.
Critter News
OCTOBER 9, 2010
The two-month operation involved national enforcement agencies in six tiger-range countries (China, India, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam) and was coordinated by INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Program at its headquarters in Lyon, France. Tags: wildlife smuggling tigers interpol asia endangered species.
Animal Person
JUNE 3, 2009
I did know that such companies steal water (and oil) from local people in other countries, promising them improved access or health or housing, and I did know of the very, very dark side of dams (particularly the Three Gorges Dam in China, with its environmental ravaging and displacing of over a million people). Drink Tap Water!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
… Tags: ducks , features , jamaica bay , migration , queens • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea in future weeks.I I hope you enjoy what I did manage to get… Am I ever glad that I am a birder! Corey Mar 18th, 2011 at 7:25 am Thanks, all.
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2010
In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). Tags: news. A foul-smelling wound might spell an infection. Liver disease? Fishy-smelling breath. Kidney disease makes a mouth smell like urine. Rats help save humans.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
What evolutionary forces have shaped their bodies for travel, what forces will be helping and hindering their journeys, and which scientists will be tagging, observing, and analyzing them as they make their way north? A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds. by Scott Weidensaul. Norton, Pan Macmilan (U.K.).
Critter News
AUGUST 29, 2009
China of course! Tags: organized crime africa zim poaching rhino elephants. This is big, scary business out there, not some struggling poor people trying to survive. Like in arms dealing and drug smuggling, we are talking dangerous and powerful criminals. And where is the demand coming from? He's got a lot more guts than I have.
Critter News
OCTOBER 19, 2008
At the International Egg Commission’s annual meeting, held last month in China, it was noted that animal welfare activists in the U.S. Tags: eggs farm animal welfare factory farm chickens. Some 200 companies have an average flock size of one million hens in a single location, with the top 60 companies producing 85% of all eggs.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2011
melli is the Hong Kong form that visits during the winter from southern China. Tags: features , hong kong , orange-headed thrush , thrushes • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Note that the lighter markings around the face and throat are undefined and subdued. In the Z.c. cyonotus race.
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2009
link] If Markarian cares about the fur animals of China, he could easily demand that HP stop selling fur on his blog. The horrors of fur farming in China will never end until we in America stop advertising and buying it. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Nothing personal, but I have to blog about this.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. Tags: Books Ethics. Not Eating Animals. That has to be good, I tell myself. Once your priority is justice, your message isn't "eating animals".
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