10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
A Photographic Guide to the Wildlife of Seychelles is a lightweight, 196 pages of a pocket-sized and easy-to-carry book suitable for a general nature lover, but also for birders as a second, wider-orientation guide, next to the Field Guide to the Birds of Seychelles.
Critter News
JUNE 19, 2010
I've finally started getting email updates from Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network. Here is one of their stories about tortoises being smuggled in luggage.note the drug connection. The tortoise- and drug-filled bags had come in on 1 June on an Air Mauritius flight and were discovered by Customs officers at the airport.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday. They found 3,640 pounds (1,655 kilograms) of snakes, mostly pythons, and 263 tortoises that weighed a combined 697 pounds (317 kilograms), said Col.
Critter News
MAY 10, 2010
Tags: wildlife smuggling reptiles tortoises.
Critter News
OCTOBER 1, 2010
Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime pakistan thailand tortoises.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
Another catch by the UK's National Wildlife Crime unit. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime UK tortoises.
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. They live for up to 100 years.
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