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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Honore Mashagiro, a member of the Congolese Nature Conservation Institute was arrested after claims that he organized the killing of ten rare mountain gorillas. The horrible events took place in the Virunga National Park, an area that is in a region where rebels have set up a base, on the eastern border of Congo.
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Animal Parts On Chinese Auction Websites
Sunday, March 9th, 2008In China the illegal wildlife trading is very common. Recently, the authorities have tried hard to fight against this illegal commerce. This market is well-spreaded on the internet where you can find multiple auction sites that sell parts of endangered animals. A recent report showed that in Borneo were sold tiger parts and there were [...]
Paleontologists Discover The Biggest Pliosaur
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008A couple of years ago, a Norwegian team of paleontologists have discovered the remains of an dinosaurs. It was dugg from the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard and later the fossils “said” that the pliosaur lived about 150 million years ago. To complete the skeleton it took about a year and we have to give the credit [...]
More Than One Million Baby Seals Killed For Fashion
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Last summer, in Canada more than 350,000 newborn seals were killed for fur extraction and unfortunately the next summer much more will die for fashion. In the last four years, there were more than 1 million seals killed in Canada. 98.5% of the baby seals killed in 2005 were less than 2 months old and [...]
In Vitro Meat Might Save The Environment
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Every year are compiled reports about the meat industry and all of them show that it’s a danger for our planet. From the meat industry the most pointed at are the cattle, they release CO2, greenhouse gases, they require large areas for raising the animals and to provide them food. This industry pollutes even more [...]
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