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S.Leone elephants 'wiped out' by poachers: official
Nov 26, 2009 |
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Poachers "wiped out" the entire elephant herd in Sierra Leone's only wildlife park, wildlife managers said Thursday after police said they had arrested a gang of 10 poachers.
Tiger rescue highlights poaching threat in Malaysia
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A five-year-old male Tiger was freed from a poacher’s snare on Sunday after it was found by WWF’s Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU) just off a highway that cuts through the Belum-Temengor forest ...
Conservationists fear for Zimbabwe rhino
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Conservationists raised the alarm Thursday for Zimbabwe's rare rhinos after a sharp increase in poaching because of a breakdown of law enforcement in this troubled southern African country.
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Malaysian officials save endangered Malayan tiger
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Malaysian wildlife authorities rescued a five-year old Malayan tiger, badly injured in a snare set up by poachers near the country's jungle border with Thailand, officials said Monday.
Alarming decline of rhinos, tigers found
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Jun 01, 2006 |
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The World Wildlife Fund says it has discovered an alarming decline in Nepal's rhino and tiger populations in a former Maoist stronghold.
For the tiger, a year closer to extinction
Oct 31, 2009 |
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Next year, according to the Chinese calendar, is the Year of the Tiger but conservationists say the omens are inauspicious for an animal on the brink of extinction.
Sturgeon facing extinction due to poaching
Nov 28, 2005 |
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First it was dams, then pollution -- but now the world's most endangered and valuable fish is facing its most threatening problem: human poachers.
2 rare elephants found dead in Indonesian jungle
May 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two rare Sumatran elephants believed to have been poisoned with cyanide-laced pineapples were found dead in the jungles of northwestern Indonesia with their tusks removed, a conservationist said.
Preserve established for bonobos
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Nov 21, 2007 |
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Congo has established a rain-forest preserve to protect the bonobo from deforestation and poachers, government officials said.
Study says 2000 tigers possible in Thailand
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Dec 20, 2007 |
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Thailand’s Western Forest Complex – a 6,900 square mile (18,000 square kilometers) network of parks and wildlife reserves – can potentially support some 2,000 tigers, making it one of the world’s strongholds for these emblematic ...
Kenya's national parks not free from wildlife declines
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released ...
Missing: 2,000 elephants
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Dec 11, 2008 |
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Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savanna elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, now hover at about 1,000 animals, down from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Ivory poachers using automatic weapons ...
Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, ...
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