National Geographic USA – June 2019
Behind netting, a polar bear dances at the Circus on Ice in Kazan, Russia. Performing polar bears are extremely rare. The show’s ...
WILDLIFE TOURISM 73 ...
She says she fell in love with dolphins in the late 1980s when she read a book by John Lilly, the American neuroscientist who br ...
legion of more than 25,000 Instagram follow- ers. In exchange, she gets hundreds of dollars off the nightly rate. At Anantara th ...
of Surin Province, claim to be the source of more than half of Thailand’s 3,800 captive elephants. Long before the flood of tour ...
Recognizing that a nonhuman animal is in pain is difficult, often impossible. But we know that animals feel pain. All mam- mals ...
Poaching May Doom the Shy, Elusive Pangolin BY RACHAEL BALE PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRENT STIRTON THE SCALY CREATURES, COVETED FOR USE IN ...
A Temminck’s ground pangolin named Tamuda searches for a meal of ants or ter- mites at a rehabilitation center in Zimbabwe. He w ...
Pangolins are trafficked both for their scales and meat, con sidered by some to be a delicacy. In April 2015 more than 4,000 fro ...
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Masked to protect their identities, law enforcement officers with Côte d’Ivoire’s organized crime unit sit atop nearly 8,000 pou ...
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At the Tikki Hywood Foundation’s rescue center, in Zimbabwe, each pangolin—like Tamuda, seen here—is assigned a caretaker. The p ...
the illegal wildlife trade by Lisa Hywood and her team recover. Hywood—a fiery, compact woman prone to alternating between cooin ...
Pangolins are usually solitary, but Tamuda and Luleko spend a rare moment near each other to take a drink from a pud- dle. Temmi ...
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In Cameroon a young woman who runs a food stall prepares to butcher a white- bellied pangolin in the alley behind her home. Came ...
were poached from 2000 through 2013—mainly for their scales, used in traditional medicine. Pangolins are believed to be the most ...
numbers crashed and imports brought into the country before the bans went into place. Pangolin trade records from CITES show tha ...
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