Protecting China’s Animals in the Monkey Year
For centuries, macaque monkeys have been a ubiquitous entertainment fixture in Chinese cities,...
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LatestChina “Main Destination” For Illegal Chimpanzee Trade
China’s central role in the global black market in ivory and other wildlife products has...
China’s Vegetarians Outnumber America’s
As China’s appetite for meat grows, so does awareness of its environmental cost, and the number of those giving it up. From Mary Kay Magistad at PRI’s The World: […] Many Chinese just don’t want to give up meat. But...
Police Seize Pet Dogs From Beijing Homes
Police in Beijing have been confiscating large pet dogs, including golden retrievers, labradors, collies, and many other breeds according to an official notice. Regulations from 2003 [zh] that labeled these breeds as...
MOOve Over Miss World
While Miss China took the Miss World 2012 title, cows in Shanxi Province also had the opportunity to be crowned the winner in the Miss Dairy Cow Pageant, from The New York Daily News: Cows in China got the chance to strut their...
The Loneliness of the Chinese Birdwatcher
A reporter for the Economist writes about being a bird-watcher in China: In theory, China has lots of birds. To date, 1,329 species have been counted, out of a world total of 9,000-odd. China has a rich mix of habitats, from...
Chinese Wonder If Animals Can Predict Earthquakes
From AP via Examiner.com: First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China’s worst earthquake in three decades,...
China Animal Lovers Protest Eating Cats – AP
From Associated Press:
Chinese cat lovers mobilized online to save a truck load of cats from the cooking pot, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Veteran Shanghai cat rescuer Duo Zirong
Animal Waste a Heavy Burden for Environment – Guan Xiaofeng
From China Daily:
Experts have warned of environmental pollution from increased animal husbandry, as the country became the world’s top meat and egg producer last year.
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Photo Series: Animals Get a Taste of Christmas
From China.org:
A worker at the Xi’an Qinling Wildlife park in Santa Claus costume feed monkeys in Xi’an, western China’s Shaanxi Province, on December 27, 2006.
Wang Zhuoqiong: Tuskless elephants evolving thanks to poachers
From China Daily:
More male Asian elephants in China will be born without tusks because poaching of tusked elephants is reducing the gene pool, a recent study predicts.
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