Ivory speculation makes captive elephants in Thailand & India worth more dead than alive

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)

BANGKOK, Thailand; THIRUVANATHAPURAM, India––Unscrupulous owners of working elephants are increasingly often deciding that the rising cost of elephant care and soaring prices paid by speculators for ivory mean their elephants are worth more dead than alive––and are resisting legislation to protect the elephants, who have often been illegally captured from the wild. Read more

BOOKS—Wild Planet: Celebrating wildlife photographer of the year

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)

Wild Planet: Celebrating wildlife photographer of the year
Natural History Museum
(Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.), 2013.
143 pages, paperback. $23.95.

Anthologizing 80 winning entries from the Natural History Museum’s “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” competition, Wild Planet is a celebration of wildlife indeed. Read more

Newly found ferret badger rabies strain raises concern about dogs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)

Taipei, Taiwan––A new rabies strain identified in Taiwanese ferret badgers may have the potential to exponentially increase the risk of rabies transmission by dogs. But even if the new rabies strain does not behave in dogs as it does among ferret badgers, it has ignited unprecedented public controversy in Taiwan over the value of animal testing. Read more

BOOKS: The State of Canada’s Birds 2012

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)

By the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI-Canada), under the leadership of Environment Canada, Bird Studies Canada, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Nature Canada, the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Wildlife Habitat Canada | Free download: www.stateofcanadasbirds.org and Avian Conservation & Ecology 8(2). Free download: www.ace-eco.org/vol8/iss2/art1

Alleged an October 1, 2013 media release from the American Bird Conservancy, “A new study from the government of Canada that looked at more than 25 human-caused sources of bird mortality has found that domestic cats, both feral and owned, are the leading lethal threat to birds in the country.” Read more

Impressions of Wolf Haven, The Elephant Sanctuary, & Tiger Haven

July 1, 2013 juanitoG One comment