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. You can put tigers on a farm for legal parts harvesting and still call it "protection." Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I don't trust the Chinese government on any issue.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Tigers are not safe anywhere. Tags: zoos wildlife crime poaching tigers indonesia. A Sumatran female at the Taman Rimbo Zoo was drugged by poachers, slaughtered and harvested for her parts. Just awful.

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Critter News

JUNE 25, 2010

The guy was clearly trafficking in illegal parts as there were about 50 kg of bones belonging to other tigers. Tags: wildlife smuggling vietnam wildlife trafficking tigers panthers. This happened in Vietnam.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh said that speeding up justice as well as hefty fines are needed to strengthen the Wildlife Protection Act. Tags: India tigers wildlife endangered species.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

They seized tiger skins, tiger bones and otter skins. Where could those tiger bones be going but to Asian countries to make tiger bone wine? Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime otters India organizations poaching tigers. In India this time.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. This is the genus of the typical large cats including Lion, Leopard, Jaguar and Tiger. In fact genetic evidence indicates that the Snow Leopard’s closest living relative is the Tiger.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 20, 2008

Some conservationists worry that the tigers living at a Buddhist Temple in Thailand are drugged, but the monks deny it. Tourists visiting the Tiger Temple pay big money: anything from $15 just for entry, up to $50 for the very special photograph of a tiger with its head in your lap. Tags: tigers thailand.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

As this article points out , tigers are worth more dead than alive if you use humanity's flawed accounting system. Tags: wildlife crime extinction Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers china. It's not only China, but all Asian countries that are playing a major role in reducing this beautiful animal's number.

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Tigers China Wildlife Humane 100

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. Tags: organized crime wildlife smuggling wildlife crime wildlife trafficking. From the AFP.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

As we gazed upwards at those backlit migratory warblers, I noticed a Bare-throated Tiger-Heron … nesting! Still, this sort of wildlife experience is available in pretty much any Mexican city. It was by far my best (and longest) view of this species. Two other birds, both residents, surprised us. And yet, there it was.

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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. Tags: wildlife crime UK wildlife trafficking Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers endangered species. Not surprisingly, they raided a shop selling Chinese traditional medicines. From the Telegraph.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

A tin yellow tiger is staring at us from the Melghat Tiger Reserve gates, as the narrow tarmac road winds through teak forest ( Tectona grandis ) along the hillside. From the next curve in the road, I can see the cows grazing deep in the valley: “If I was a tiger, I would check my prey from here.”

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India Owls Tigers Cows 180

Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

Profit from illegal trade can be up to 10 times the cost, with restaurant operators offering the exotic dishes usually aware of the violation but lured by the gains, Xu {Hongfa, director of the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) TRAFFIC East Asia China Program} said.

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China Wildlife Tigers Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If I were to describe my long time wildlife nemesis, my ultimate dip of dips, I would reach for a nemesis cat, not a nemesis bird. Most gallingly of all, I had actually stood next to someone that saw one, jumping into a tree to escape a Tiger of all things, and failed to see it. One of the great wildlife encounters in my life.

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Cats Leopards South Africa Tigers 105

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 20, 2012

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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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.

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Russia China Trafficking Netherlands 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

As she continued her monologue about these cats, the Wildcat cautiously walked in our direction, never taking its eyes off of us, stiff-legged, ears motionless, striped like a standard “tiger” domestic cat but entirely in grays. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. That was one of his cats. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

Critter News

JULY 11, 2009

In India, another head of a tiger poaching ring is behind bars. Tags: wildlife crime India poaching tigers. Well, here's a first for me. And it's a woman! Sounds like she ran a pretty vile operation too.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2010

A private zoo operator in Taiwan cross-bred lions and tigers, resulting in three "liger" cubs. The Environmental and Animal Society of Taiwan (EAST) said Huang, who possesses an array of wildlife, should be dealt with harshly to deter others from copying the behavior. Tags: zoos taiwan tigers lion endangered species.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Vladimir Putin, former President and current Prime Minister of Russia, just got a tiger cub for his birthday. He'll be donating it to a zoo or a wildlife preserve. He told journalists that Koni has not met the tiger cub. Once the tiger was asleep, Putin placed a collar with a GPS tracking system around her neck.

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Russia Tigers Animal Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2020

Bhanu Singh is one of India’s leading wildlife photographers whose images and articles are regularly published in national and international publications. Small reserves such as the Khijadiya and the Thol Lake Wildlife Sanctuaries in Gujarat are mostly well described. Published in February 2020, this is the first edition.

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India Lions 2020 Groups 249

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2014

This time I’ll be working with Wildlife ACT in Zululand, helping that NGO monitor wildlife in a range of reserves and parks in the east of South Africa. I bring this up not to boast (well, not much) but because I think that this approach to wildlife travel is somewhat neglected in birding circles.

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Uganda Sharks Africa New Zealand 161

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 7, 2012

From Cougars, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and snow leopards and more, it’s a great time to learn more about these amazing cats! There are now more tigers living in captivity than in the wild. The week features shows that highlight the kings and queens of the jungle!

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Snow Leopard Cats Afghanistan 2012 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Due to the Ganges floods, their planned weekend of sailing through the labyrinth of channels turned into a week-long stay among about 270 Tigers , according to the 2011 census – the last population inhabiting mangroves and one of the highest concentrations anywhere on the planet!

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge will soon be winging their way north, so he spent some quality time with them, his best birds of the weekend. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. I suspect though that once we get past the Ides of March (beware!)

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2011 Deer Owls Birds 133

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I had some awesome photos of an unusually bold c**k bird which I seem to have misplaced but probably the real reason I like them so much is that stopping the jeep to photograph that bird allowed the 5 tigers that walked out in front of us just after that time to do so. Graham Clarke liked Dotterel , a bird he needed for Ireland.

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2012 Ghana Ireland Costa Rica 133

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Did you know that there are more tigers living in captivity than there are in the wild? The big cats of the world need our help. The second annual Big Cat Week will air this Sunday, December 11th through December 17th on Nat Geo WILD.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

You may have birding from the window of your home, you may have been counting birds at a local wildlife refuge, you may have been counting birds on a feverish run from one end of a state to the next. Although it was partially hidden by the mist over the marsh, we could still see enough to count Rufescent Tiger-Heron.

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Costa Rica 2017 Owls West Virginia 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Most of the India data comes from The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in India India Some 6-8 hours north of New Delhi, Corbett National Park is India’s first and oldest tiger reserve. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard.

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Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 274

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become A Bird Watcher #13: Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Welcome Wednesday: On Yer Bike – Birding with a Sketchbook The Third Factor What is the American Bird Conservancy Anyway?

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2011 Deer Fish New York 154

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

It is home to some of the most concentrated and diverse shark populations in the world, including species with a reputation for attacking people, such as great white, bull, tiger, black tip, ragged tooth and dusky sharks.

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Sharks Experience Experiments South Africa 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Most birders know better than to fall prey to such sensationalism, but among the public at large, Australia is notorious for being a land creeping and crawling with dangerous and even lethal wildlife at every turn. And not just deep in the bush, either, but at the beach, in urban parks – even in the country’s suburban homes.

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2019 Australia Fowl Ducks 230

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

It’s all very well to advocate the should that tigers should not be poached from a reserve in India. The tigers keep wandering out of their reserve and taking cattle from nearby villages, taking what little these already poor people have. Perhaps it would be better to move the tigers to that bigger reserve, or maybe a zoo.

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Tigers Hunting Game Iraq 175

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Even the most ‘ordinary’–the field coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Siberian Tiger Project, the villagers who stop by for vodka–become fully dimensional in just a few sentences. Slaght has a wonderful talent for depicting people. ’ I still have two questions to answer.

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Owls Russia Fish Japan 138

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Pench Tiger Reserve–Turia Zone. Pench Tiger Reserve–Turia Zone. Pench Tiger Reserve–Turia Zone. Pench Tiger Reserve–Turia Zone. Pench Tiger Reserve–Turia Zone. Curu Wildlife Reserve. Ridgefield NWR–River ‘S’ Unit. 18 Jan 2020. Wakodahatchee Wetlands.

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