This report in National Geographic had the same effect............for totally different reasons.
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Up until this year, an estimated 120,000 – 140,000 Amur falcons (Falco amurensis) were
being slaughtered in a remote part of north-eastern India at this exact
time each year. In 2012, Shashank Dalvi and Ramki Sreenivasan
documented this shocking massacre as tens of thousands of migrating
falcons congregate along the banks of the Doyang reservoir in Wokha
district of Nagaland. Everyday thousands of beautiful Amur falcons were
being caught in mist nets, plucked alive, skewered, and then smoked
before transport to market for sale as a cheap source of protein. The
global population of this record-breaking aviator and natural wonder
would have been depleted had this slaughter in Nagaland been allowed to
continue. This year no Amur falcons have been killed so far…
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If you signed the petition congratulations, you might just have made some sort of a difference.
I will find myself sighning more e petitions from now on.
click HERE to read the rest of the article.
If you signed the petition congratulations, you might just have made some sort of a difference.
I will find myself sighning more e petitions from now on.
