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Petition: Will India Let This Great Bird Go Extinct?

Petition: Will India Let This Great Bird Go Extinct?

May 15, 2019February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 1 Comment

The great Indian bustard may become the first bird to go extinct in India since the country gained independence in 1947. In 1960 the bird was already recognized as a legally protected endangered species, but its population was estimated to be just 1,250 individuals – and dropping fast. Fearing that the species would decline even […]

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Outrage over trophy hunter who paid 0,000 to kill rare mountain goat

Outrage over trophy hunter who paid $110,000 to kill rare mountain goat

April 19, 2019February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 15 Comments

An American man reportedly shelled out $110,000 to hunt and kill a rare mountain goat while on a recent expedition trip in Pakistan’s northern Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan.. Bryan Kinsel Harlan, a trophy hunter from Texas, was photographed on Tuesday kneeling and smiling behind the butchered goat. “It was an easy and close shot,” Mr […]

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Nepal’s Last Dancing Bears Have Been Rescued

Nepal’s Last Dancing Bears Have Been Rescued

February 1, 2018February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 18 Comments

Rejoice, animal lovers. The last two known “dancing bears” in Nepal have been rescued from lives of sadness and pain. Bears become “dancing bears” after would-be showmen capture or purchase cubs. Those young bears are stolen from their mothers, and from that point forward, they’ll never again live as a wild bear should. Instead, their […]

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POLL: Should Arab sheikhs be allowed to hunt bustards?

POLL: Should Arab sheikhs be allowed to hunt bustards?

December 19, 2016February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 7 Comments

One of Pakistan’s four provinces has banned Arab sheikhs from hunting a protected species of bird, defying Islamabad’s longstanding policy of giving hunting licences to key regional allies. Swaths of habitat used in the winter by the migratory houbara bustard are allocated in blocks to the some of the most senior people in the United […]

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