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• Zoos Killing Healthy Tigers for Skin Trade

  Published: July 23, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Offbeat News, Animal, Animals, Cruelty, Endangered, Farms, Poaching, Skin Trade, Species, Tigers, Zoo, Zoos

  healthy tigers and other endangered species and selling their skins to be stuffed and mounted as trophies for private collectors. Photo Pappa Razzi 1 The skins are sold by the zoos to taxidermists who prepare them for clients despite government attempts to stifle the trade in tiger products. Last week undercover reporters from The Sunday

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• Recovery of the black-footed ferret

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:25 pm

  Tags: Endangered Species

  Rapid population growth of black-footed ferrets in Shirley Basin, Wyoming, since 2000. Releases of captive-born animals ended in 1994, and abundance was so low by 1997 that monitoring was intermittent during 1998 2002 (no data for 1998 99 or 2002)...The predicted abundance is exponential growth fitted to the minimum number alive (r = 0.47).

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• Taslima Nasreen, Poet, Attacked in India: Men Attack Her; Other Men Try to Sheild Her

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:06 pm

  Tags: Endangered Species, Religion, Freedom Of Speech, India, Sexism, Crime, Social Commentary, Muslims, Women S Issues, Mass Murder, Moral Decline, Radical Islam, Women, Bangladesh, Death, Human Rights, Moral Values, Domestic Surveillance, Pornography

  I wrote on TMV about Taslima, a poet and doctor, against whom a fatwa to behead her had been called ….for she dared to write poetry about “honor killings”; she was imprisoned for writing about women taken to the stadium and stoned to death while the mullahs present were laughing. Read on TMV May 18, 2007: Four Arrested In Honor

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• Murder, plain and simple

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:49 pm

  Tags: Primates, Dogfighting, Wildlife, Farm Bill, Animal Welfare, Endangered Species

  I'm outraged.MSNBC.com: Four endangered gorillas found shot deadFour endangered gorillas were murdered in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park. While most definitions of murder confine their scope to intentionally killing other human beings, the difference between humans and gorillas is insignificant when it comes to being

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• Australia's north one of 'last great natural areas'

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:01 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Environmental Management, Australia, Darwin 0800, Cairns 4870, Mount Isa 4825, Broome 6725, Karratha 6714

  A new scientific study has found north Australia is emerging as one of the last great natural areas on earth.

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• Diesel spill endangers whales

  Published: August 24, 2007, 2:42 am

  Tags: Whale, Oil Spill, Coastal Environment, Coastal Pollution, Endangered Species

  A diesel spill from a capsized barge is threatening pods of vulnerable killer whales in Robson Bight, off Canada's Pacific Coast, environment officials said Wednesday. More than 30 killer whales and other marine animals are at risk of breathing in fumes from a diesel truck dumped Monday morning from the barge into the waters near an ecological

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• Fraser steps into anti-whaling campaign

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:02 pm

  Tags: Environment, Endangered Protected Species, Federal Government, World Politics, Australia, Japan

  Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser has written an open letter to Prime Minister John Howard calling on him to do more to halt Japan's whaling program.

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• Shark Bait

  Published: September 5, 2007, 6:18 am

  Tags: Biology, Fish, Extinction, Sharks, Endangered Species, Animals

  thing'. Since sharks are an endangered species thanks to stupid humans.A five-foot-long thresher shark that washed up on a crowded city beach this weekend and was pushed back into the sea by beachgoers is dead. Rockaway Beach was back open Sunday, a day after a shark sighting shut it

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• Endangered turtle nests found in Texas

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:05 am

  Tags: Turtle, Endangered Species

  daily looking for the endangered turtles and their nests during the nesting season, which runs from April to mid-July. The patrollers jointly covered 73,632 miles over 8,895 hours this year, the Park Service said.Shaver said it's difficult to find the nests, because often the only hint a mother turtle leaves is a faint trail in the

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• PAVAROTTI Looked as the Stars Trembled With Love and Hope

  Published: September 6, 2007, 5:47 am

  Tags: Endangered Species, Social Commentary, Italy, Obituary

  Have you ever noticed that some brilliant souls seem to come to earth close together in time, eddy near one another in genius, and then also leave the earth within a few short months of one another? … as though they arrive in pods, like creatures of the sea and together swim away at a [...]

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• Sea turtles still endangered, threatened

  Published: September 10, 2007, 6:21 am

  Tags: Turtle, Endangered Species

  turtle species are listed as endangered. The breeding populations of Olive ridley and green sea turtles are endangered along Mexico's Pacific Coast, and threatened elsewhere, the study found.Coastal development, beachfront lighting, pollution and hunting are contributing to the demise of the sea turtles, which come ashore periodically to lay

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• Corals Added To IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species For First Time

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:52 am

  Tags: Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Endangered Species

  -- as Critically Endangered, while a third -- Polycyathus isabela -- is listed as Vulnerable. The Red List also includes 74 Galapagos seaweeds, or macro-algae, with 10 of them receiving the most threatened status of Critically Endangered. Prior to 2007, only one algae species had been included on the Red List."There is a common

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• Mediterranean's rich marine life under threat

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:49 am

  Tags: Marine Life, Endangered Species

  Climate change has warmed up the Mediterranean Sea and threatens its rich animal and plant life, Italy's Institute of Marine Research (ICRAM) warned in a new report Tuesday. The alarm bell came a day before the start of a national conference on climate change in Rome.The experts said a cold current emanating from the Gulf of Trieste off northern

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• Crist urges delay on manatee decision

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:46 am

  Tags: Manatees, Endangered Species

  of a species from endangered to threatened doesn't mean much change in protections enjoyed by the species and the manatee continues to have federal endangered status.But downlisting the manatee could send the message to those who want to weaken some protection laws that it's OK to do that, because it appears that the manatee is

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• Coral

  Published: September 15, 2007, 7:23 am

  Tags: Coral, Climate Change, Global Warming, Sea Creatures, Dinosaurs, Volcano, Extinction, Marine, Maritimes, Prehistoric, Endangered Species

  on coral. The fact they are endangered and that they have been discovered off the Canadian East Coast.Corals Added To IUCN Red List Of Threatened Species For First Time"There is a common misconception that marine species are not as vulnerable to extinction as land-based species," said Roger McManus, CI's vice president for marine programs.

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