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What is wrong with us people? Why do we kill tigers? As far as I know tiger skins, claws, bones, blood or trophies do not contribute to a better survival rate of the 'consumer'. The few poachers and dealers in tiger parts, of which the latter

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Researchers suggest that fellow humans that like to eat meat - let's call them carnivores - like the taste of meat, and that they are denying moral rights to animals to avoid a bad conscience.

In a publication of 2010 in a journal that bears the

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The global population size is expected to reach over 9 billion individuals by 2050, according the United Nations. Feeding all these people requires an enormous increase in global food production compared to current production levels. But there is a limit

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Finished 'The Tiger, a true story of vengeance and survival' by John Vaillant about a week ago. Excellent story told by a great and well-informed storyteller. It gives great insight information about the hardships in eastern Russia, where the Amur

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Knut, the polar bear cub that was raised by hand, has suddenly died in Berlin Zoo, yesterday - 19 March. According to several Zoo visitors he had a seizure and dropped into the water and died, but this has not been confirmed by the Zoo's

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Finished the book of Benjamin Mee "We bought a Zoo"; Interesting memoirs of a journalist and his family buying the Zoo in Dartmoor. A family with absolutely no experience with zoo management whatsoever, and nevertheless they seem to pull it off;

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World's best coffee producing plantations are facing a dark future. They will be destroyed by the Coffee berry borer beetle (Hypothenemus hampei), unless preventive measures are taken. Scientists who made me nervous two years ago with their

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Recently it was suggested that reintroduction of tigers in the Caspian region could support tiger conservation more effectively than the 'old school' conservation efforts. Building on results from 2009 which showed that the extinct Caspian tigers and

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In June this year Cincinnati Zoo proudly announced it had produced the world's first Pallas' cat kittens with a new laparoscopic oviductal technique. Sophia the female Pallas' cat of Cincinnati Zoo wouldn't accept her mate Buster earlier this year

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For some reason I have missed any announcements and advertisements regarding this absolutely great offer from Oxford University Press (OUP). But now I have discovered it, I must share this with you: OUP together with renown scientists in the field of

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