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Search results for "endangered animals" ...
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The Great Lakes: An Endangered Legacy
A series of stories that invesigate how pollution, sewage and foreign marine animals are helping to destroy the Great Lakes
Tags: Great Lakes; Marine Animals; Lake Michigan; Huron; Ontario; Eerie; Superior
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Bad to the Bone
Looks into the sale of shark cartilage pills as a cure for cancer and what the popularity of these pill does to the shark population.
Tags: sharks; cartilage pills; endangered animals
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Animal Underworld
"Animal Underworld is an expose of the burgeoning domestic trade in exotic species. The book examines all facets of the exotic-animal 'industry,' focusing in particular on the 'laundering' of unwanted zoo and research castoffs as they are sold and resold until paper trails go cold. Animal Underworld exposes the elaborate shell game of animal brokering that secretly shunts rare - even endangered - species off to auction barns, private hunting preserves, roadside attractions and basement cages. The book demonstrates how institutions and individuals heralded for their commitment to conservation, including some of the nation's most respected zoos, are in many instances interested more in profits than in preservation of the species..."
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Crimes in the Name of the Environment
This ten-month investigation into "eco-terrorism" reveals millions of dollars in damage and threats to human life in the American West resulting from two decades of extremist acts ostensibly committed in the name of saving the environment. The report establishes a correlation between environmentalists and animal rights activists, previously considered two separate camps.
Tags: CAR terrorism; violence; sabotage; Pacific Northwest; arson; Vail; lynx; endangered species; John Zerzan; World Trade Organization; PETA; Animal Liberation Front; Earth Liberation Front; Fur Commission USA
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The Looting and Smuggling and Fencing and Hoarding of Impossibly Precious, Feathered and Scaly Wild Things.
The New York Times Magazine reports 'inside the $10 billion black market in endangered animals... Wildlife for sale. The trade in exotic animals - especially protected, threatened and endangered species - is not usually thought to occupy a huge share in the global market of illegal goods smuggled across borders. But in recent years, only illegal drugs have outstripped the cash value of the living and dead wildlife that sluices through a black market toward trophy hunters, pet enthusiasts and devotees of traditional medicines."
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Zoo Animals to Go
The San Jose Mercury News reports that "America's zoos have a little secret: They breed animals with no intention of keeping them. Every year, animals once admired at dozens of the country's major zoos are sold or given away to dealers, contributing to a multibillion-dollar-a-year exotic species marketplace where they can be resold, auctioned off to the highest bidder or advertised to the public in specialty magazines. Some of these surplus zoo animals include threatened or endangered species that end up as backyard pets, at a growing number of unaccredited roadside zoos or in the private collections of celebrities."
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Campfire
This investigation revealed that millions of U.S. tax dollars are being spent each year to support the trophy hunting of rare African elephants. The reporters also discovered that tax dollars are funding a foreign lobbyist in Washington who is working to weaken the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT big game hunting wild animals
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Wild horses
AP finds that federal Bureau of Land Management's wild horses program is actually endangering the animals lives.
Tags: Slaughter Interior Department Public Integrity Section
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No title (id: 13866)
NBC6 (Miami) uncovers South American endangered animals being smuggled into Miami. (Nov. 12-13)
Tags: Daniels Zamost Craven Taken from the wild Contest entry U.S. Fish and Wildlife World Wild Life Fund GAO Animal rights Miami International Airport 12 pgs. TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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No title (id: 13805)
Through a five part series, KATV discovered major problems with the Little Rock Zoo's treatment of animals. The report found that more than 10 percent of the zoo's animal collection was dying each year. KATV revealed how several high profile animals died. (February 21-25, 1996)
Tags: Dixon Early Endangered species Contest entry 18 pgs. TAPE