kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 01 2008 | animals, politics, environment
Now here's a business idea. Eco-tourism meets hunting.
Quoted: He's driven a big truck, flown in a Russian fighter jet and fished shirtless on national television.
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Now comes Vladimir Putin's latest image-boosting escapade, a visit to a Russian wildlife preserve that gave him the chance to wear camouflage, stalk through the woods and shoot a tiger -- all for a good cause.
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The televised footage showed Putin, deep in the woods, placing a collar with a tracking device around the knocked-out tiger's neck and patting its cheek like a pet. "She'll remember us," he said.- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2008 | animals, environment, pollution
Well, if this isn't a good reason to decrease CO2 emissions ... (as if there weren't a few dozen others!)
Quoted: Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2008 | animals, environment, zoos
Revolting.
Quoted: Berlin zoo is under pressure to explain the fate of hundreds of its animals which allegedly have disappeared without trace amid accusations that they have been slaughtered and in some cases turned into potency-boosting drugs.
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