Critter News

AUGUST 3, 2011

The Indian government has decided to add bulls to the list of animals protected from entertainment uses. There are still illegal events though. This prevents them from being exploited in Goa, an Indian state that had considered reviving the tradition. a Portuguese-American, I can say that.)

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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. 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 don't trust the Chinese government on any issue. I'm too, too cynical.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. You might also want to see how the World Parrot Trust works to protect parrots in the wild. Check out the World Wildlife Fund’s creative campaign to save the Cerrado.

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Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

The raid took place on the day an amendment to the law controlling illegal trade in endangered species came into effect. The regulations closed a legal loophole which enabled traders to pretend animal products came from countries with lower levels of protection.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

Since these are the same neighbors who illegally cut down several other trees (habitat that was used by wintering warblers), it appears that they also suffer from the all too prevalent affliction of environmental disconnect that has been steadily bringing our Planet to the edge of biome collapse.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

This paragraph is taken from British Birds , a book written by W.H.Hudson, novelist, celebrated nature writer and one of the founders of the Royal Society for the Protection Birds. Hudson’s British Birds was first published in 1895. Such management benefits many other ground-nesting birds, such as Golden Plover, Curlew and Merlin.

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2010

Looks like they'll need to since nobody else wants to protect them. Sea Shepherd doesn’t protest, Sea Shepherd intervenes against illegal activity. In Qatar yesterday nations voted down a proposed ban on exporting Atlantic bluefin tuna. Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully wasn’t available today to confirm how New Zealand voted.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Yet, opposition to their full protection came from an unexpected side, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), whose Head of Delegation said: “These proposals would [not] have offered elephant populations any greater protection from the poachers. EU voted as a block of 28 votes “against”.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected. Money and effort are being invested in that protection. The cargo consisted of huge number of protected passerines such as larks and pipits, beside huntable species like Common Quails and Turtle Doves.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2010

Sea Shepherd will be sending the Steve Irwin and Bob Barker to the Mediterranean to help protect Bluefin Tuna.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

North American breeders winging their way south for the winter may want to head for the Bahamas, where a new national park offers them protected habitat. Don’t put off that birding trip to Ghana on your to-do list—if trends continue, illegal logging may leave you with nothing left to see.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Jochen Roeder, a former fellow 10,000 Birds writer who lives in Germany, says according to EU nature conservation directives it’s illegal to cut down trees during the spring and summer unless they are checked by an expert for nesting birds or resting bats. 4) Dream of the European model. Fish & Wildlife Service. 5) Display attitude.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

I can’t really blame the farmers, even though much of the expansion of avocado orchards is the product of illegal slash-and-burn practices (as in the photo below, which I took just last week). Which might, just maybe, give a local landowner a good reason to protect his forest, instead of planting avocados.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

“The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) Cyprus have now released the report on their bird protection camp during the peak of bird migration in autumn 2011. The report highlights four important issues.” ” See the whole report here.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another advantage to ballistic food transport is that the fruit seeds are protected from damage when they are swallowed whole. Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.) Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

No matter how much we do to protect the breeding grounds of Neotropical migrants, we can’t assure the safety of those species that lose essential wintering habitat. Protecting even the most range-limited species sometimes requires that we look well beyond our respective borders.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

On a side note, the bird is also kind of ugly, so maybe the chicks never seeing their father has a certain protective function. It is probably a rumor that writing a post about Australia and not mentioning Koalas is illegal, but why take the risk? Like the figbird, it mostly feeds on fruit.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

But their lawyers argued that prosecutors did not prove that the group had engaged in an illegal conspiracy that kept federal workers — employees of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management — from doing their jobs. Are you kidding me? Allowing armed occupiers to take over public lands sets a dangerous precedent.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

How is anyone to know if it came from a species that is protected under national or international law? One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products. Once an animal has been carved up, meat looks like meat and leather looks like leather.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. It is part of the international ecological corridor and the “Confluence of the Sava and the Danube Rivers” Important Bird Area (IBA), already proposed for a nature reserve by the Government’s Institute for the Protection of Nature of Serbia.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

, and at the same time not grumpy enough to make them draw their guns (yep – it’s a true story, but do not trust the first impression: they were rough on the outside and soft on the inside, e.g. being fiercely protective of stray dogs and cats – that particular guy kept about five dogs and 15 cats, and they all lived together peacefully).

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. The law, since revised, aimed to protect animal research laboratories from illegal, sometimes violent protests.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

All swallows are included under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 as migratory insectivorous birds and as such are protected by state and federal regulations. It is illegal for any person to take, possess, transport, sell, or purchase them or their parts, such as feathers, nests, or eggs, without a permit. Herein lies the problem.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. It is illegal to keep a wild bird. Experience shows that bird parents do feed babies in makeshift nests reattached to tree branches, bushes, gutters, and even tree cavity sections duct taped to another tree.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

It really is just too damn dangerous to go there without protection if you’re holding a pair of binoculars, looking like a non-local, and driving up back roads obviously looking for birds. Still, it is worth noting that some illegal hunting occurs, and this needs to be policed. In specified areas.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. The charges included the massacre of the gorillas and involvement in the illegal charcoal trade.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2010

Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. Cross-breeding two protected species is completely against nature. One died and the other two were seized for sheltering at a research institution. From Focus Taiwan.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 6, 2012

After Dog Whisperer, Philly Undercover, the new six-part series in which the PSPCA’s undercover police team works to eliminate dogfighting and protect all animals from abuse and neglect, premieres. Undercover PSPCA cops are on a rescue mission after busting up an illegal dogfight and arresting 14 suspected fighters.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

photographers illegally in the dunes at left stalking the Snowy Owl at right Where on Saturday there was only dunes, beach, ocean, and owl there was, on Sunday, dunes, birders, beach, birders, ocean, birders, owls, and photographers. But, let me tell you, the atmosphere between the two days couldn’t have been much more different.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

And unlike the protection of cormorants, which was perceived as a problem, protection of pelicans was welcomed by the local communities. Asian water buffaloes were brought to Greece by Ottoman Turks centuries ago and by now, they have developed into a separate race, the Greek buffalo, which is protected as an old domestic breed.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2012

Understanding that threats to animals can range from illegal trafficking to utter exploitation, these leaders strive to promote the safety and protection sanctuaries offer our fury, feathered, four-legged friends. Giving up corporate life for this, it’s refreshing to see a person pursuing her passion and following her heart.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

With assistance from the Negril Area Environmental Protection Trust (NEPT) a boardwalk and nature centre have been established. This conservation effort has resulted in habitat and protection for nearly the entire population of West Indian Whistling Ducks in Jamaica.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2009

The appeals court said the goal of protecting against animal cruelty was a worthy one, but one already accomplished by laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia outlawing the practice. The appeals court noted that the Supreme Court is resistant to removing First Amendment protections of depictions even of illegal actions.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It's the largest civil penalty imposed under EU legislation in which wildlife protection is a condition for receiving funds from the EU's Single Farm Payment Scheme. This guy is the third Scottish landowner to have subsidies cut under these regulations. Don't worry. He's a millionaire. He'll be okay.)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2015

Anyone who is tempted to raise a crow or a raven needs to know that 1) it is illegal to do it without a license, and 2) if you don’t follow the protocol (ski masks and puppets, and NEVER raise one alone) followed by a large flight cage and live prey, you cannot release them – they will never make it in the wild. Release day came.

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