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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

  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 Times were

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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

  the entire mountain gorilla species toward complete collapse: The four were members of a family group known as Rugendo, and the male served as a leader of that group, which the IGCP feared would now be compromised. "Before the killings the Rugendo group comprised 12 individuals," the IGCP said. "Six are confirmed as safe, but two gorillas, a

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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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• I Know One 'Species' That Definitely Isn't Endangered

  Published: August 13, 2007, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Hot Naked Alien Babes Who Kill People, Hotnakedalienbabeswhokillpeople, Natasha Henstridge, Natashahenstridge, Part 4, Part4, Species, The Awakening, Theawakening

  Screenplay courtesy of Species 3 writer Ben Ripley, and Species 3 is a pretty solid chunk of fun trash.In addition to the unrated version of Species 4, October 2 will also see the release of a 2-disc Species Special Edition -- which is kind of weird because I could have sworn there was a Species Special Edition released alongside Species 3.

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• Colorful Carpet of Cool Sea creatures discovered two miles depth

  Published: August 27, 2007, 2:07 am

  Tags: Alien, New Species

  revealed a new crustacean species and oodles of other life forms, ranging from polka-dotted glass Squid resembling beach balls to grim Viperfish with teeth like ice-picks. The finds were made by a team of 31 scientists during a five-week expedition to explore life along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge using remotely operated vehicles equipped with

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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

  three thresher shark species have been recently listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).Sand Shark The sand tiger (Carcharias taurus) is a coastal shark often encountered by shore fishermen while fishing for striped bass and bluefish. Please note that this species is protected by both State and Federal

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• Tropical crab invades Georgia oyster reefs

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:13 am

  Tags: Invasive Species, Coastal Environment, Oysters, Crab

  are feeding on the native species."The impact of the crabs is important because oysters are a "foundation species" essential to the health of coastal ecosystems because their reefs provide homes to dozens of other creatures. "These non-native crabs slow the rate of growth for organisms like oysters that they compete with, but they enhance the

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• Invasive algae killing Costa Rican coral reef

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:07 am

  Tags: Invasive Species, Coral Reefs, Algae

  the bay, allowing non-native species of fish to come in and displace the native species.The highly invasive Mediterranean strain of the algae, Caulerpa taxifolia, was discovered in Southern California in June 2000, where scientists have used solid chlorine blocks to eradicate the pest.Costa Rican scientists do not yet know if similar eradication

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• Endangered turtle nests found in Texas

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:05 am

  Tags: Turtle, Endangered Species

  have been on the endangered species list since 1970. Adults grow to about 2 feet in length and weigh up to 100 pounds, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The turtle population has been threatened by factors including shrimpers' nets and their popularity in Mexico as boot material and food."I'm just so happy about the increasing

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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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• Invasive round Gobie fish spreading swiftly through great Lakes

  Published: September 10, 2007, 6:35 am

  Tags: Fish, Invasive Species

  of introducing new species and spreading existing ones around," said Hensler, a doctoral student at the School of Natural Resources and Environment.At least 185 non-native aquatic species have been identified in the Great Lakes, and ballast water is blamed for the introduction of many including the notorious zebra and quagga mussels

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