Russia`s Fast East --- Siberian Tigre
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Is also known as the Amur tiger, is a subspecies of tiger that is located throughout western Asia, central Asia and eastern Russia. It is the biggest of the tiger subspecies and the largest living (Siberian tiger) 20. This animal is really attractive to poachers; the more interested country on those animals is China, because they have used their parts to traditional Chinese medicine. Thus is causing an estimated of 40% decrease in this species. The Russian have been doing annually survey that shows that the 41% drop in the Amur tiger population from its average over the past 12 years (RT). They also are monitoring them covering around 9,000 miles that represents 15-18 percent of the existing tiger habitat in Russia (physorg.com). This was supposed to make the control of the situation that is actually occurring, the extinction of the Siberian tiger that is a real concern to all the world population.
This events are something tangible because the 75% of all the Amur tiger death are caused by poaching, if this situation continue killing an estimate of 12 to 16 adults females they would disappear because only exist a few of them more or less than 150(Dnapes). It is the female tiger because all the total population of this animal is appreciated around 500 but also is stimulated that 30 to 50 tigers are hunted illegally per year in the Russian far east(b BNET).
These wonderful animals have been attracted for the Chinese poachers because in this country they are a majesty symbol, causing them beliefs that haven’t been verified by science, which are that their body parts can be key substance in antibiotics for a lot of disease. On the black market they seek for their skin, meat and other parts of their body letting only remnants in pieces of their intestines and some of their ribs, similar of what happened in the Jambi zoo at Indonesia.
China beliefs are causing a dramatic decrease in the Amur tiger population. The main reason of the poachers is that they don’t care about the risk of those animal’s lives because their skin can fetch tens of thousands of dollars and a whole tiger pert can be sold for US$ 30,000 even their bones are sell, is believe that they treat vicers, typhoid, malaria, dysentery, burn and even rheumatism(earth report)(mongabay). So they started selling “tiger bone wine” ,one bottle of this product can be costing $100 or more depending of the amount of the tiger carcass that they soaked in the vat.
Other parts for us not much important such as, whisker are used to control the sooth toothaches, their penis have been used as a sexual tonic and combined these two parts and adding a tiger claw they formed sexual powers.
It is impossible to make a control around the world just to find those illegal organizations, in the past 15 years there has been just one person who has found guilty of killing a tiger to sell their fur and the rests of the animal body at the black market (b BNET). The Russian police is working hard to make possible the end of the illegal wildlife trade in Russia far east, but it is almost harder because in those organizations are involved too members of the police.
By: Maria Alejandra Pinilla and Laura de león
This events are something tangible because the 75% of all the Amur tiger death are caused by poaching, if this situation continue killing an estimate of 12 to 16 adults females they would disappear because only exist a few of them more or less than 150(Dnapes). It is the female tiger because all the total population of this animal is appreciated around 500 but also is stimulated that 30 to 50 tigers are hunted illegally per year in the Russian far east(b BNET).
These wonderful animals have been attracted for the Chinese poachers because in this country they are a majesty symbol, causing them beliefs that haven’t been verified by science, which are that their body parts can be key substance in antibiotics for a lot of disease. On the black market they seek for their skin, meat and other parts of their body letting only remnants in pieces of their intestines and some of their ribs, similar of what happened in the Jambi zoo at Indonesia.
China beliefs are causing a dramatic decrease in the Amur tiger population. The main reason of the poachers is that they don’t care about the risk of those animal’s lives because their skin can fetch tens of thousands of dollars and a whole tiger pert can be sold for US$ 30,000 even their bones are sell, is believe that they treat vicers, typhoid, malaria, dysentery, burn and even rheumatism(earth report)(mongabay). So they started selling “tiger bone wine” ,one bottle of this product can be costing $100 or more depending of the amount of the tiger carcass that they soaked in the vat.
Other parts for us not much important such as, whisker are used to control the sooth toothaches, their penis have been used as a sexual tonic and combined these two parts and adding a tiger claw they formed sexual powers.
It is impossible to make a control around the world just to find those illegal organizations, in the past 15 years there has been just one person who has found guilty of killing a tiger to sell their fur and the rests of the animal body at the black market (b BNET). The Russian police is working hard to make possible the end of the illegal wildlife trade in Russia far east, but it is almost harder because in those organizations are involved too members of the police.
By: Maria Alejandra Pinilla and Laura de león
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOlvRrGzXLI
Canada
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Canada is in the Arctic Ocean were every year in Newfoundland – peninsula of Labrador (North – east coast of Canada) when the spring is open start the cruel and merciless practice with a kind of vulnerable animals how are the seals, a massive killing of 350.000 types of seals.
How do they kill seals?
They strikes them brutally in the head with sticks a lot of time, after doing this insert a hook for drag the seals and skinned when many of these animals still alive. Other form to kill them is with gunshots, but if it has any damage in the skin these people leave the animal dying on the ice.
This practice is especially against baby seals. The 96% of the victims have lower than 3 months as their skin is whiter and desired, is going to be marketed for the furrier industry. The baby seals are completely vulnerable; they haven’t developed swimming skills and didn’t remain in the ice. The seals die for their fur, their fat and penises reach western market as luxury products, dietary or aphrodisiacs.
Canada justify this massive killing because the over population of harp seal they want and think that have to control , to avoid that the seals eat all the bacalao, also because the meat and the seal oil are important business for the region. These animals die to provide the furrier industries, the Asiatic and European fashion. The trade of meat and seal oil is negligible, leaving the rest of the body that is not the skin to rot on the ice.
This country continue giving licenses to perform this practice, a attitude that can seem incredible in a civilized country, when they can do investments in this regions enable to development alternative activities in other sector of the economy in fact when banned the whale hunting, realized that win more money doing excursions to go with the tourist to observe the whales in their natural habitat.
Canada has charged of traditional medicinal products with illegal importing of animal and plants endangered all these products of animals are illegal in Canada and was obtained in inhumane ways and the shops that sell these products don’t carry them.
To this problem in one of the meetings against the possession of drugs with animal parts and plants Ernie Cooper, WWF-Canada director, traffic and wildlife trade said given that the court chose to impose a $45000 penalty for this first time offence when the maximum it could have imposed was $50000 shows how serious the court takes the issue of illegal wildlife trafficking. Hopefully this conviction will help deter those who are involved in similar illegal activities.
by: Valentina Ballesteros
How do they kill seals?
They strikes them brutally in the head with sticks a lot of time, after doing this insert a hook for drag the seals and skinned when many of these animals still alive. Other form to kill them is with gunshots, but if it has any damage in the skin these people leave the animal dying on the ice.
This practice is especially against baby seals. The 96% of the victims have lower than 3 months as their skin is whiter and desired, is going to be marketed for the furrier industry. The baby seals are completely vulnerable; they haven’t developed swimming skills and didn’t remain in the ice. The seals die for their fur, their fat and penises reach western market as luxury products, dietary or aphrodisiacs.
Canada justify this massive killing because the over population of harp seal they want and think that have to control , to avoid that the seals eat all the bacalao, also because the meat and the seal oil are important business for the region. These animals die to provide the furrier industries, the Asiatic and European fashion. The trade of meat and seal oil is negligible, leaving the rest of the body that is not the skin to rot on the ice.
This country continue giving licenses to perform this practice, a attitude that can seem incredible in a civilized country, when they can do investments in this regions enable to development alternative activities in other sector of the economy in fact when banned the whale hunting, realized that win more money doing excursions to go with the tourist to observe the whales in their natural habitat.
Canada has charged of traditional medicinal products with illegal importing of animal and plants endangered all these products of animals are illegal in Canada and was obtained in inhumane ways and the shops that sell these products don’t carry them.
To this problem in one of the meetings against the possession of drugs with animal parts and plants Ernie Cooper, WWF-Canada director, traffic and wildlife trade said given that the court chose to impose a $45000 penalty for this first time offence when the maximum it could have imposed was $50000 shows how serious the court takes the issue of illegal wildlife trafficking. Hopefully this conviction will help deter those who are involved in similar illegal activities.
by: Valentina Ballesteros
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_tiger
http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-11-26/amur-tigers-critically-endagered.html
http://www.physorg.com/news178293989.html
http://dnapes.blogspot.com/2010/06/siberian-tiger-epidemic-blocks-their.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2010_Feb_16/ai_n49586127/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2010_Feb_16/ai_n49586127/
http://www.tve.org/earthreport/archive/doc.cfm?aid=804
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0628-neme_tigers_ge_gabriel.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2010_Feb_16/ai_n49586127/
http://lemurking.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/baby-seal.jpg
http://cortocircuitosdecoilet.blogspot.com/2009/03/crueldad-hacia-los-animales.html
http://wwf.ca/newsroom/?2640
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_tiger
http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-11-26/amur-tigers-critically-endagered.html
http://www.physorg.com/news178293989.html
http://dnapes.blogspot.com/2010/06/siberian-tiger-epidemic-blocks-their.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2010_Feb_16/ai_n49586127/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2010_Feb_16/ai_n49586127/
http://www.tve.org/earthreport/archive/doc.cfm?aid=804
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0628-neme_tigers_ge_gabriel.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2010_Feb_16/ai_n49586127/
http://lemurking.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/baby-seal.jpg
http://cortocircuitosdecoilet.blogspot.com/2009/03/crueldad-hacia-los-animales.html
http://wwf.ca/newsroom/?2640