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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The Chinese Used to Think Pandas Were Monsters
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen describes the shift in Chinese views of pandas from metal-eating...
Rubber Boom Threatens Yunnan’s Elephant Haven
While Chinese demand for ivory threatens Africa’s elephants, Yunnan’s 300 Asian...
A Border City on the Edge of the Law
The New York Times’ Andrew Jacobs visits the Chinese-dominated Myanmar border town of Mong...
“Shark Slaughterhouse” Exposed in Zhejiang
After a four-year investigation, Hong Kong-based conservation group WildLifeRisk has exposed what...
New Regs Could Increase Wild Animal Exploitation
The New York Times reports that wildlife management regulations proposed in China may actually...
Shark Fin Victory May Offer Hope for Elephants
On the China in Africa Podcast, Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden and Huang Hongxiang gloomily...
Monks Protect Snow Leopards; Restaurateur Saves Turtle
Amid frequent bad news about wildlife issues in and involving China, LiveScience’s Tia Ghose...
Pollution, Piranha Plague Southern Chinese Rivers
China Daily reported on Tuesday that, according to government figures, nearly ten billion tons of industrial wastewater and domestic sewage were poured directly into Guangdong’s rivers last year: More than 9.5 billion tons...
Seal Meat Deal “Racist”
A new agreement for China to import seal meat from Canada has come under fire as betraying a “racist and cultural imperialistic attitude”. Supporters, however, hope that it might help sustain Inuit communities whose...
China Seizes Van with 173 Bear Paws, Python Skin
Chinese authorities stopped a van on the China-Vietnam border and discovered it contained bear paws, a python skin, and a pangolin: The bear paws — also used in some traditional medicines — weighed 844 pounds (383...
South China’s Taste for Wildlife – Walter Parham
China is not considered an animal-friendly country. One key reason is that people in South China has the custom of wildlife consumption. Chinadialogue features Walter Parham’s report “on the habit that locals just cannot kick – even after the SARS crisis.” The destruction of south China’s wildlife habitats started about 1,000 years ago, and still […]
China ‘Gets the Message’ on Controversial Tiger Farms: NGO – AFP
At a CITIES conference, China proposed to re-legalize domestic trade of tiger parts from artificially-bred tigers. Conservationists fear that this would increase demand and encourage poaching. A decision will be made at the conference on Wednesday. From The Nation: Pressed by conservationists to shut down breeding farms housing some 5,000 tigers, China hinted Tuesday it […]
China seizes bear paws, dead pangolins – Reuters
From MSNBC (link): Chinese police have seized hundreds of bear paws and dead pangolins that smugglers had injected with tranquilizers, the official Yunnan Daily newspaper said on Thursday. Police in the southwestern province of Yunnan announced on Sunday that 20 members of a ring smuggling endangered animals had been arrested, the Web site of the […]
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