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Tiger Preservation in a Nutshell
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
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China signed an international convention which bans the trade of tiger parts in 90's. Tiger skin and bones are best selling commodities in many parts of the world. People who want a ba sould be willing to bear the cost of maintaining tigers. It shouldn't be forgotten that pigs are doing well under captive breeding., when it a new thing to breed tigers. Banning poaching would be similar to a ban on all traffic to avoid traffic accidents. Tigers could be preserved only through free trade, writes Dean Peng.
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Real tiger cub found in luggage with stuffed toys
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Friday, August 27, 2010 |
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A tiger cub was found in a luggage of a woman at Bangkok airport among stuffed toys.Airport staff "suspected something amiss when they scanned the bag and X-ray images showed an item resembling a real cat," a wildlife smuggling watchdog group stated. The woman will have to faces up to four years in prison and a 40,000 baht ($1,300) fine, reports MSNBC. |
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20 kg of tiger bones seized from Guwahati airport
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Sunday, June 20, 2010 |
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20 Kilograms of tiger skull and bones were seized from the Guwahati airport.This is the biggest seizure of tiger parts in recent times. The seized materials are valued at Rs 2 crore in the international market.Ten grams of tiger parts sell at an estimated cost of 20 USD, reports NDTV. |
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Illegal pet trade booming in India
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
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Waking up to this menace of pet shops operating illegally, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) has now asked the state governments to chalk out a policy to register dealers engaged in pet trade, selling domestic birds and animals across the country. In the garb of selling muniyas which are allowed for trade under law, the dealers are making the protected species such as Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus, Palm Cockatoo Probosciger atterrimus, tortoises and freshwater turtles, snakes or lizards, available to customers at exorbitant prices, reports Times of India. |
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Animal parts bound for China seized in Manipur
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
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Personnel from Assam Rifle's 20th battalion seized animal parts including two tiger skulls, two tiger paws, 16 kg of tiger bones, 340 kg of pangolin shell and 191 deer antlers from a truck at a check post in Bongyang in Chandel district. Wildlife crime experts said that with the wild tiger population being virtually wiped out from the jungles in China, the soaring demand for tiger parts is being met from Myanmar and the Northeastern of India, reports Times of India. |
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Animal trafficking in Vietnam
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
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Vietnamese police have seized two tonnes of rare animal remains including bear legs and tiger skins from a store in Hanoi. These include seven frozen bear legs and gall bladders, six sets of tiger skins and the intestines of six porcupines. Vietnam has signed the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, and wild animal traffickers are subject to large fines and imprisonment. But trade in rare animals for food, decorative and medicinal uses is still widespread, reports the Economic Times. |
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Kashmir Pashmina gets Geographical Indication
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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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Kashmiri artisans, who perfected the art of making handmade Pashmina for years, will now have exclusive rights over the Kashmir Pashmina brand, with the central government declaring it as Geographical Indication (GI), an intellectual property right, reports Times of India/IANS |
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Kangaroo farming would cut greenhouse gases
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
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Farming kangaroos instead of sheep and cattle in Australia could cut by almost a quarter the greenhouse gases produced by grazing livestock, which account for 11 per cent of the nation's annual emissions, said a new study, reports Times of India. |
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950 star tortoises seized from air passenger in Chennai
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 |
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As many as 950 live tortoises, an endangered species, were seized by the Customs officials from a passenger of a flight bound for Bangkok via Colombo at the airport in Chennai on Saturday morning, reports Times of India. |
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IWMC: Saving Elephants by Selling Ivory
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Friday, August 01, 2008 |
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A total of 108 tons of ivory may now be legally exported from the following Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. Japan and China will now be allowed to import ivory from these sources. IWMC congratulates these nations for their careful documentation of the facts of life in Africa, and for their massive efforts to cut down on poaching of this magnificent natural resource. Now that there is once again a legal market for elephant ivory, the price of poached ivory will go further down below market level, and thus, poaching will be deterred, notes IWMC in the Sustainable eNews |
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