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Banggai Crow
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NWHS Member Newsletter #6
Welcome Members of National Wildlife Humane Society (NWHS). This is the last week to enter your wildlife or nature photograph (winner gets a prize) simply Join Wildlife Community Network (WCN). Look to the right of any page, in the Main Forum for the NWHS Contest thread. We have some nice photo entries but can certainly use more. Even if you don't have a photograph to enter, join WCN and view the entries and take part in the voting.
We continue our Membership Drive, please help us grow. Together we can build a true "wildlife conservation movement". Please continue to help! Forward this Newsletter to all of your friends and ask them to join by: Clicking here to Join NWHS.
Patrick D. Webb
President - National Wildlife Humane Society
Founder/Director - Top Of The Rock Wildlife Sanctuary
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Tiger skin trade in China exposed
Source: BBC Earth News - By: Jody Bourton
An undercover investigation has revealed the continued trade in tiger skins in China. Covert filming by the Environment Investigation Agency shows traders selling skins of tigers and other rare animals such as snow leopards.The skins are sold as luxury items and are used for clothes and home decor.The campaigning group has published its investigation a few days before an international summit on big cat conservation in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Buying and selling big cat skins and body parts is illegal in China.
However, a team from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), based in London, UK and Washington DC, says its investigations reveal the trade in big cats still occurs in many parts of the country, including ....
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Endangered Sea Turtles Return To Mexico's Beaches
Source: NPR By: Jason Beaubien
Mexico has deployed its navy to several beaches in the Pacific Coast state of Oaxaca. Its mission isn't to fight the drug cartels or protect European tourists, but to guard the nesting grounds of an endangered sea turtle.
In the 1970s and '80s, Olive Ridley turtles were harvested to the brink of extinction. But the Mexican government has orchestrated a remarkable comeback for the sea creatures.
This time of year, along a solitary sandy beach in southern Oaxaca, turtles bob in the waves just offshore. And then based on some signal ....
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Long feared extinct, rare bird rediscovered with MSU scientist’s help
Source: MSU News
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged from hiding on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part to a Michigan State University scientist.
The Banggai crow was believed by many to be extinct until Indonesian biologists finally secured two new specimens on Peleng Island in 2007. Pamela Rasmussen, a Michigan State University assistant professor of zoology and renowned species sleuth, provided conclusive verification.
An ornithologist who specializes on the birds of southern Asia, Rasmussen studied the two century-old specimens known as Corvus unicolor in ....
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