Researchers A. M. Lemieux and Nicholas Bruschi recently published an insightful paper about one of the illicit products being sold for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine: jaguar paste. They constructed “crime scripts” to determine how this substance is produced and traded, and to provide informed suggestions on how to curtail this alarming practice.
via Researchers Uncover “Crime Scripts” Behind Jaguar Paste Market in Suriname — The Jaguar
Why bother to clean it up when you can just move the Capitol to another less-polluted city. Indonesia is not exactly at the forefront of conservation as within its boundaries their sub-species of tigers, orangutans, elephants and rhinos (there are others) are at risk in that country wherever they occur, due to habitat loss, palm oil plantations, other types of farming and development, poaching, pollution,climate change, illegal logging, etc, etc; and I guess just not caring enough.
Indonesia is the worlds most populated country on a square foot basis- this is not the wildlife’s fault, though!
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August 12 is World Elephant Day! And Elephantopia is excited to be celebrating this global event here in the States raising funds for our partners in Zambia at the GRI Elephant Orphanage Project for Kavalamanja (an orphaned elephant victim of the ivory trade). We invite you to join us in Virginia with our board president…
Only around 100 tigers remain in Bangladesh’s famed Sundarbans forest, far fewer of the endangered animals than previously thought, according to a census. Some 440 tigers were recorded during the previous census in 2004 in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest and one of the last remaining habitats for the big cats. But experts […]
via Only 100 tigers left in Bangladesh’s — KRISHNA KUMAR SINGH
