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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Wildlife ranger seriously hurt in elephant attack
KUALA TERENGGANU: A Wildlife Department ranger survived an attack by an elephant that he was trying to ride at Elephant Park, Hulu Terengganu, yesterday.
Mohd Hadzli Awang, 27, was trying to get on top of the elephant named Charlie when he lost his balance in the 8.55am incident.
Charlie became agitated [...]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Saleng celebrates birth of Siberian Bengal tiger cubs
By MOHD FARHAAN SHAH
JOHOR BARU: Saleng Zoo has welcomed new additions to its family with three Siberian Bengal tiger cubs born two months ago.
Zoo caretaker J. Sivapriyan said the zoo now has a total of 19 tigers.
“I’ve named them Hassan and Samad, both two months old and Kuchir [...]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
BACK in 1998, when her husband suggested that they go bird-watching, Nina Cheung would unwillingly trudge along. Walking under the scorching sun and squinting through binoculars were not exactly her idea of a weekend outing.
But the country’s great diversity of birds with gorgeously coloured plumage soon won her over. Now she’s the one religiously pouring [...]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
MUAR: A stake-out by the General Operation Force (GOF) intelligence unit led to the seizure of live pangolins being transported in a car near here.
A 24-year-old man was arrested after a short car chase at Sungai Sarang Buaya in Bakri, near here, at about 11pm on Sunday.
About 40 live pangolins, including several babies, were recovered [...]
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Marking World Animal Day
Submitted by amir azree on Monday, October 5th, 2009
LOVE YOU: Feline and canine friends at SPCA yesterday
MANY animal lovers gathered at the SPCA Selangor animal shelter in Ampang to celebrate World Animal Day yesterday. Volunteers, those who provide foster homes for the animals, sponsors, SPCA staff and members of the public honoured [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
MIRI: The illicit and often-cruel trade in wildlife and wildlife-parts raked in more than RM100mil in profits for illegal hunters and smugglers in five South East Asean countries, including Malaysia, during the first three months of this year alone.
ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (Asean-Wen) said that the money-spinning illegal trade involved endangered animals on the verge [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
BEIJING, June 24 (Bernama) — A rising appetite for wildlife and its increasing use in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), are fueling an increase in the illegal imports of endangered animals, a senior official said Wednesday.
“Illegal wildlife trade used to be outbound, but domestic demand has reversed the trend,” China Daily quoted Wan Ziming, director of [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
HANOI, May 27 (Bernama) — Nearly 150 wild animal species are categorised and described in “A Pictorial Guide for Quick Identification of Some Wild Animals Protected by Vietnamese Laws and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora”, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported Wednesday.
The book was put together to help [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
By CHRISTINA KOH
IPOH: An anonymous donor had dropped off the two young orang utans confiscated from the Taiping Zoo earlier this month, its director Dr Kevin Lazarus said.
He said the zoo staff accepted the totally protected animals two or three weeks ago because they were concerned that the animals might be traded somewhere else.
“I was [...]
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
BANGKOK (AFP) – Thailand’s famously celibate giant pandas finally produced a cub Wednesday, after artificial insemination succeeded where attempts to get them to mate using pornography and low-carb diets failed.
Chiang Mai zoo director Thanapath Pongpamorn said eight-year-old female Lin Hui gave birth to a cub weighing an estimated 200 grams (eight ounces), just three months [...]
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