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    • Everyday - Animal Wake Up Call

    • The sad, sad truth must be heard. Made to make people more aware of animal cruelty in the world. Full Credit to Carly Comando for her song 'Everyday' used in this video.

    • Wildlife Issues- End Tiger Trade

    • Part of the story behind the photo "We Live Behind Wires". This is the most conserversial issue with China in means of wildlife conservation. Infamously known for their slaughter of tigers, China once had one of the largest populations of tigers in the world... before the hunt for their body parts became dire. For thousands of years, the Chinese have been killing wild tigers and taking what they wanted from the kill. Some might ask why conservationalists are so worried now. What's different? Well, for one thing, the Chinese poplulation has incresed so rapidly after "modern" civilization began to be practiced that there are no longer enuogh tigers to support the hunting. And because of this, there are nearly no more tigers in China. So, still with their ancient hunger for tiger body parts, illegal practice of traditional Chinese medicine is getting supplies from neighboring countries, like India and Nepal. So why kill? The commonly known saying "you are what you eat" is beleived, in traditional Chinese medicine, to be almost literal. The poachers take the testicals of the tigers as a kind of viagra, though it had been proven a compleatly false belief that it improves sexual attraction and abilities. The meat is eaten in the thought that it helps to make the consumer stronger, more able to protect his family. Skins are not eaten, but worn, as a sign to say that one is as strong and powerful as a tiger. Dried claws and other small trinkets are hung in a house for good luck. And the bones of tigers are ground into  pouder and made into wine, and, as with eating the meat, is thuoght to giving one the strength of the most powerful of all animals in the region. Nearly all medicines (not just from tigers, but snakes, leopards, bears, turtles, and hundreds of others) are proven to do nothing in any way for the human body or mind, and those that do show such weak signs that they, too, are not worth the extinction of all the species that are at this great risk. Please help join the fight to make this stop!  
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    • We Live Behind Wires

    • This image was taken at a tiger Farm in China. These tigers, hundreds of them, are forced to live in small cages, about ten feet by ten feet, with half a dozen other tigers. They drink water filled with feces and urine, and they have no shelter from rain or sun. The only thing they ever see is the wires they are chaged behind, and the rows and rows of other cages and other tigers. They will never kill their own prey, and will never know what it feels like to walk on grass or run for more than a single leap. And when their time comes, they are slaughtered and their bodies thrown in huge, refrigerated rooms until they are skinned and their bodies harvested of valuable things like bones and testicals. Some farms remove the flesh and feed it back to the living tigers to save money. It frustrates me that most of the general population is compleatly unaware or uncaring about the situation of tiger farming in China, but had people been kept in such conditions, there would be a worldwide outcry. Almost solely becaue of China's insufferable hunger for animal body parts and encrochment on their natural territory, the tiger population had dropped from 100,000 in the early 1900s to 2,000 in year 2000. To learn more, I have posted a video about the farming and general hunting of tigers in China.

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    • Gorgeous shot by National Geographic....downloadable to wallpaper on their site.

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    • Jaguarundi Kitten

    • Female, born 15 May 2006, arrived here June 06 from Sierra Endangered Cat Haven. Parents were imported from Brazil. Also called the Otter Cat, the jaguarundi is an unusual weasel-like feline that is found in the central America and as far south as Paraguay. A few still survive in southern Arizona and Texas. A United States endangered species, these cats are overall listed as Least Concern. They are more active in daylight hours than most other wild cat species. They have seldom been studied in the wild.

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    • Snow Leopard

    • Perhaps the most beautiful of all big cats, the Snow Leopard is an amazing animal. Living at altitudes higher than those of most predators, the Snow Leopard creates a niche for itself in some of the most difficult terrains and hostile climates in the world. Panthera Uncia, the Snow Leopard, is frequently grouped in small cats owing to its inability to roar, even as it is gifted a predator as any other felid. The cat is characterized by its nearly meter long tail that helps protect its face during extreme cold and enables it to balance itself while encountering adverse topography. The weight ranges from 80-130 lbs. Males are larger with a squarer face. The feet are bigger and furrier for its size relative to other cats, helping the leopard tread over snow. The coat is very attractive with thick fur and beautiful rosettes characteristic of leopards. In winter the coat gets more white than yellow. Owing to inhospitable terrain and difficult habitats, Snow Leopards have evolved to be specialized predators and opportunistic hunters. They take a variety of prey, including animals much bigger than themselves. Their leaping ability (45 feet) surpasses even that of the cougar enabling the marvelous cat to surprise its prey and encounter the hilly ranges of its territory. Distributed over a large mountainous terrain in South and Central Asia, Snow Leopards hunt a number of animals including boars, ibexes and rodents.

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    • "Snow Leopard"

    •   [Uncia uncia] or [Panthera uncia] tribe: panthera conservations status: endangered range: china, nepal, mongolia, india, pakistan, afghanistan, tajikistan, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan, russia, kazakhstan diet: bharal (blue sheep), siberian ibex, argali, wild goat, markhor, urial, tahr, goral, deer, boar, languar monkey, domestic livestock, marmot, whooly hare, pika, rodents, snow cock, chukar weight: 60lbs to 120lbs the well known cat of the himalyas. a secretive animal, they are probably the most least aggressive of all the pantherines, which leads them into trouble with local herders, who chase the cats on sight to protect their livestock. a snow leopard, when attacked, is said to rarely even defend itself. it is chased off of kills without effort. one of the most beautiful of all cats, the coat is esteemed with the markings of a leopard, the pale grey that no other cat truly matches, and an unrivaled softness. this, too, had earned the snow leopard it's share of trouble. the market for poached snow leopard fur is extremely high, one snow leopard pelt alone can fetch $50,000, and so the temptation for poor herders, especially in nepal, who can hope to make $7,000 in a year through honest work. an assesment in 2008 releaved the wild numbers of the snow leopard to be between 4,080 and 6,590 with china, ironically, having by far the highest numbers: 2,000 to 2,500. the species used to be placed in genus Panthera with the jaguar, leopar,d lion, and tiger, but it was reclassified into it's own genus, though recent molecular studies suggest strongly that it should be placed back in the genus with the tiger as it's closet reltive, though further research is needed before any conclusions as to the classification can be reached. photo from unknown source

    • "Iberian Lynx"

    • [Lynx pardinus] tribe: felis conservation status- critically endangered range: spain, portugal diet: rodents, insectivores, birds, reptile, amphibiansm rabbit, fallow deer, roe deer, mouflon,   weight: one of if not the rarest species of cat, the iberian lynx lives in the iberian peninsual. they are easily distinguishable by their "sideburns", which are prominate in all lynx, especially so in the iberian.   its numbers are very low and it is thought that the species was already fragile before the human intervention pushed it to the brinks of the mainland. unlike many other species that adapted to living in close quaters with humans, like leopards, wildcats, and jungle cats, the iberian lynx made a note, more so than most other european cats, to hide from humans. as human cities spread and ate up more and more land, the iberian lynx was confined to tight quaters, scattered in small pockets all over the former range. the numbers dropped and the species began to dissapear- still is. because of the instinctive shyness of the species and its tendency to run at the sight of humans, individuals are hard to track down and even harder to do long term studies in order to find out more about their current situation. what information that has been gathered points to a situation tagged a "bottleneck": it is defined by a sudden and detrimental drop in the population of a species and whe recovered, takes a long time to build up genetic diversity again. ten thousand years ago, the species acinonyx jabatus, or the african cheetah, suffered such a situation where there are estimated to be as few as two hundred, and while they are in numbers much better, their genetic diversity is so poor that each individual is nearly identical to any other. the subspecies of the asatic lion is recovering from a bottleneck in modern times, and though, again, numbers are good, birth deformities, stillbirths, and again identical individuals from severe inbreeding leads to a long road ahead. the iberian lynx is in such a situation- if they recover from the drop in numbers, it may take thousands of years to regain stability and ony if the civilized and enviromental changes cease for that period. if this species goes extinct, it will be the first feline extinction since Smilodon fatalis 10,000 years ago.  photo courtesy of Iñigo Sánchez, Jerez de la Frontera Zoo, Spain

    • "Tiger"

    •   [Panthera tigris] tribe: panthera conservation status- endangered range: india, bhutan, bangladesh, burma, thailand, laos, cambodia, malaysia, vietnam, indonesia, nepal, russia diet: sambar deer, guar, chital, wild boar, nilgai, barasingha, water buffalo, leopards, sika deer, sloth bear, crocodile, snakes, roe deer, musk deer, muntjac, tapir, saiga antelope, camels, yak, horse, monkey, peafowl, fish, hares, very young rhino or elephant, dog, cattle, donkey, occational fruit weight: 165lbs to 670lbs (depending on gender and subspecies) well known to be the largest of all species of cats, the tiger is also one of the most endangered due to exessive hunting. An ambassador for the stop of the illegal Black Market in Asia, the tiger's numbers have dropped from 100,000 in the early 1900's to a mere 2,000 in the start of year 2000. Some now esimate present numbers to be around 6,000, showing the great improvement the effforts to save this species have caused. Tigers are poached for bones, furs, testicals, trinkets such as dried paws and fangs, and other bodily parts believed to be 'medicinal' in the culture- none of which serve any scientific purposes. India has begun to show improvements of providing space for this great creature to make it's comeback, but China's goverment is posing a threatening shadow- with much needed land, a good amount of people of China are pressuring the government to open back up the bear and tiger farms they were once so infamous for and poaching there for tiger bone wine and the demand for their stripped pelts have begun to increase. They presently can be found in Asia in the countries bordering the Pacific and Indian Oceans, or the southern and eastern countries. Weighing from 140 lbs. to 670 lbs. often depending greatly upon gender and subspecies, the heaviest of all cats are males from the amur subspecies, which live exclusively in Russia's Siberia. There are three phases in pelage that a tiger may acheive- black stripes of orange background, red stripes on orange background, and dark brown stripes on white background, of which only one can be found in the wild (without the captive breeding required so infamously to get the white phase). photo from unknown source
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