Hi!Today is my birthday.I will continue to work for endangered species

Syed,

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Syeeed, Happy Birthday to you!
... and many more... :)

all the best to you on your special day
cheers!
...b.

Barbara Davis
DARKSIDE OF DEBONAIR -The Bushmeat Trade
2003 Benjamin Franklin Award
SILVER MEDALLION - POPULAR FICTION
Discover Africa's Dirty Secret
www.redbarnpress.com

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Thankyou Barbara!I will continue to work for Anti-terrorist&Money
Laundry Agency of Ivory Coast&to control poaching all over Africa.







--- In AntiPoachers@yahoogroups.com, "Barbara Davis"
<redbarnpress@h...> wrote:
> Syed,
>
> Happy Birthday to you!
> Happy Birthday to you!
> Happy Birthday Syeeed, Happy Birthday to you!
> ... and many more... :)
>
> all the best to you on your special day
> cheers!
> ...b.
>
> Barbara Davis
> DARKSIDE OF DEBONAIR -The Bushmeat Trade
> 2003 Benjamin Franklin Award
> SILVER MEDALLION - POPULAR FICTION
> Discover Africa's Dirty Secret
> www.redbarnpress.com
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online
> http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

Dear Fabian,

In this group if you want then you can also post e-mail attachments.
So if you want then you can post all the pictures or any graphics
which are included in your thesis as e-mail attachment.If it is in
Spanish then no problem I will help you to translate it into English
because I speak Spanish fluently&I am also working to save wildlife
in Dominican Republic.Iam looking forward for your informative posts.





--- In AntiPoachers@yahoogroups.com, "Sfagnum" <equusguagga@h...>
wrote:
> Hello people:
>
>  I wrote my dissertasion thesis about mexican monkeys traffiking. I
did spend some like 6 years in this project and I would like that
people use this investigation. This was wrote in spanish and it
weights 10 megas because of pictures and more. Could you anybody tell
me an idea to spread this information and to uploeaded to the net in
some way, if it is free better. Thank U in advance
>
> Fabián carvallo vargas

May God bless all of you!

I had created a new album with the name of*Elephant poaching for the
ivory trade*.The pics. in this album clearly shows the cruel killing
of elephants in Africa as well as in India for the ivory trade.

I hope that all of you will like this album.Any comments are welcome.

If you are a weak hearted person.Then I advice you to not to see this
album because it has pics.of poached elephants with their head gone.

Regards,
Dr.Syed Shehzad Ahmed
akif1999@...

>Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 08:07:53 -0400
>To: AntiPoachers@yahoogroups.com
>From: Haldor Noss <hbnoss@...>
>Subject: Re: [Anti Poachers] Disertation thesis about trafficking
>
>Fabián,
>         Researcher suggests you check with CITES, either the CITES-Mexico
> or CITES International.  Should be able to find them on the internet.
>
>Hal Noss
>photography world wide (including bushmeat and poaching photos)
>www.halnoss.com
>
>
>At 03:29 PM 7/3/03 -0600, you wrote:
>>mexican monkeys traffiking.
>>an idea to spread this information and to uploeaded to the net in some way
>>Fabián carvallo vargas

The Orang-utan Network:

http://www.orangutannetwork.net/

More Animals, Plants Put on Endangered Species List
By Soh Ji-young
Staff Reporter
The Korea Times

The government decided to increase the number of endangered species
for protection as an growing number of local species are disappearing
from their habitats due to excessive land development and hunting.

About 300 kinds of wildlife, such as the lynx, crested ibis, soft
shell turtle and water toad will be designated as endangered or rare
species, putting the total number of protected species in South Korea
to about 500, the Environment Ministry said yesterday.

"We decided to increase the number of endangered species as new
environmental surveys have shown that many kinds of wildlife are on
the verge of extinction," said ministry official Son Moo-jo.

"As a result of reckless hunting and damage inflicted on their
natural habitats, more and more animals and plants are vanishing," he
said.

The number of endangered species represents 1.67 percent of all the
18,052 types of animals, 8,271 plants and 3,528 microorganisms
currently found in the country.

Anyone who seizes endangered species without government authorization
is subject to up to five years in prison or a 30 million won fine.

A total 194 species have been categorized as endangered since 1998,
such as the Asian black bear, the copper-winged bat and the
Manchurian goral.

The additional designations of endangered species is expected to come
into effect within this year or early next year, after the ministry's
wildlife preservation bill passes through the National Assembly.

The ministry has also decided to map out protective measures for 54
rare species following the conclusion of their environmental surveys,
such as designating their habitats as special preservation sites.

jysoh@...

The Statesman – India
EDITORIAL


Indians can probably beat anyone else in their ability to copy, and
copy in such meticulous detail that no one can tell it apart from the
original. You name it, we can fake it — even if the item is banned.
The Enforcement Department's recent haul of tiger skins and ground
rhino horn, both banned o preserve the near extinct animals, is a
case in point. ED officials may have patted themselves on the back
when they caught sellers of tiger skins, only to find that they are
in fact no more than skins of the lowly donkey painted to order. As
neither the donkey nor bamboo shoots are protected, they do not fall
under The Wildlife Protection Act and so the culprits got away scot
free.

Maybe those arrested were not dealing with banned substances, but
they were certainly perpetrating a fraud selling fakes. Surely that
should have been enough for the enforcement agencies to keep them
behind bars. There is something called the Indian Penal Code! If
buying or possessing a banned item is a crime, then surely passing
off donkey skins as tigers and bamboo shoots as rhino horn, and
making a financial killing is a fraud and a crime. The laws needs to
be enforced effectively. The impression given is that the authorities
are awestruck at the ingenuity of the criminals to the extent that
they are blind and struck dumb. Get to it!

IAN MACKINNON IN THE KUNO WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, MADHYA PRADESH

VILLAGE headman Babu Lal wore a forlorn air, like the crumbling
homesteads around him. On a brief return trip to his native village
he stood barefoot amid dried cow dung, praying to an abandoned family
shrine, for better times.

The shrine is to be relocated to his new home, just beyond Kuno
wildlife sanctuary in India's central Madhya Pradesh state. Mr Lal is
paying the bill. He and 8,000 other tribals living within the
sanctuary had to swap rich farmland for parched scrub outside -
making way for a pride of endangered Asiatic lions.

Most villagers left willingly, pleased with the deal that gave them
more farmland and cash. Mr Lal, 52, was reluctant to go.

" I'll never forget when we left. Even the men cried that day," he
said. His family had lived in the village for five generations. "Is
it fair to do this to 1,600 families for a few lions?"

The 24 villages relocated outside Kuno in the past four years make up
the tiniest fraction of India's billion-strong population. But they
are among a growing number of voiceless Indians - mostly tribes
people and low-caste farmers - pushed out of protected areas in
favour of wildlife.

The numbers of so-called "conservation refugees" are set to grow
dramatically, according to social activists - up to two million if
India goes ahead with radical plans to conserve the environment.

Last year India agreed a new wildlife strategy that looks 14 years
ahead. The country's top court has already shown the way: a 1993 case
brought by World Wildlife Foundation India forced the government to
do more to meet its conservation obligations.

Between 1970 and 1995 an estimated 25,000 people were relocated from
India's 89 national parks and 487 wildlife sanctuaries. But, in the
past five years alone, the people of nearly 500 villages have been
expelled from designated tiger reserves.

It's bound to increase. With 14 per cent of the world's population
crowded into 2 per cent of its land mass, India is also home to 60
per cent of wild tigers, 70 per cent of rhino and all the world's
Asiatic lions.

" There's a bias for animal conservation in government policy,
influenced by the urban middle classes," says Ashish Kothari, an
environmentalist. "But it's the poorest and most disadvantaged who
pay."

Even the staunchest human rights activists accept there is sometimes
little option but to move people out to save a rare species. But it
must be carried out fairly, they say. "I don't know a single example
in India where relocation was handled properly," says Mr
Kothari. "It's a scandal and now people don't want to move out.

" My great worry is that this is being handled in such a ham-handed
way that we're losing the potential to do good for animals and
effectively losing support for conservation," said Arpan Sharma, co-
founder of the Samrakshan Trust that works in Kuno.

Others who see only India's massive population overrunning and
pillaging the environment show less sympathy. Experts point to
traditional farming and hunting practices by tribal communities that
wreck the countryside and leave little for wildlife.

Tribal farmers practice slash and burn methods, decimating forests
and every living thing. Others have long-held hunting traditions. In
the Andaman and Nicobar islands groups hunt the flightless megapod
bird, while in Orissa's Simlipal tiger reserve villagers hold an
annual hunt for deer and wild boar. In Himachal Pradesh people
traditionally wear in their caps the crest of a legally protected
pheasant.

" Our most intractable problem is increasing population," says M K
Ranjitsinh, a former bureaucrat and architect of India's first
wildlife preservation laws.

" Certain traditions are untenable and unsustainable. We can't allow
them to go on because they'll destroy themselves and the country. The
environment must be protected - not only for wildlife but for
humanity and the country as a whole."

Efforts to reduce the tensions have met with mixed success. Villages
were long ago moved out of Rajasthan's flagship Ranthambhore tiger
reserves, but 200,000 farmers living on the edge continued to plunder
and poach despite the efforts of police and forest officers to save
its 30 or so tigers.

The Prakratik Society, backed largely by tiger conservation money,
has tried a novel approach. Myriad schemes seek to reduce pressure of
the park by improving the lot of those outside. Family planning and
health programmes reduce population while bio-gas plants provide for
cooking and lighting to cut demand for wood fuel.

" We want to impress on these people that it's all because of the
tiger," says Dr Goverdhan Singh Rathore, Prakratik Society executive
director. "That way they'll realise it's giving rather than taking
away."

It doesn't always work. Last August, desperate after four years of
drought, 500 villagers drove 3,000 cattle and water buffalo to graze
inside the park's steep, wooded ravines, sending outnumbered forest
guards fleeing and closing it to lucrative foreign tourists for three
days. It's a scene likely to be replayed often in years to come.

I had suffered a lot due to my work of saving the endangered animals.
Because believe me when I told my family members&my friends that I
want to give up my medical profession to work to save the endangered
species of animals from extinction all of them turned against me&they
started criticizing my work of savng the endangered animals.Even my
parents&one of my sister threatened that they will cut off their
relationship with me.However my other sister who is a marine
biologist&a scuba diver told me that she is on my side&she will help
all she can in my work of saving the endangered animals.Infact she
was the one who gave me the suggetion to create the SOS group at
Yahoo Groups.This encouraged me a lot to carry on with my work.I will
never forget in my life the encouragement given to me by my sister
when I was very much frustrated &I wanted to give up my work of
saving the endangered animals.I also have problems with all of my
friends who think that I give all of my time&money to animals&I have
no time&money for them.I also have problem with my senior doctors who
think that I am not paying attention to my medical profession&I am
too much interested in animals.But I dont care about all these people
because when you are working for the right cause then you have to
fear nobody except God.I will continue to work for endangered animals.

Primate Info Net:

http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/factsheets/

I had suffered a lot due to my work of saving the endangered animals.

When the Nigerian government on June 20 suddenly increased the prices
of petroleum products such as petrol, diesel and the commonly used
kerosene by about 50 percent, it was obvious that it was a decision
with far reaching effects.

http://islamonline.net/English/Science/2003/07/article05.shtml

If anyone is interested in expressing your points of view in a forum
that will bring together professionals from all aspects of wildlife,
etc., I have started a new forum. As it is new, it doesn't have a
lot of people posting there yet, but others will also be able to
read your concerns as you discuss those issues that you discuss in
here.

But, you are welcomed to go out and explore it and maybe you might
make it a place to visit to make contacts with others in the world
of wildlife.

To get to it, go here:  http://www.kimslibrary.com/theforum

Kim

From WWF
Protect the Great Barrier Reef (the ocean's equivilent of the Amazon
rainforest)

Deadline: August 4, 2003.

Currently, only 4.6% of the Great Barrier Reef is protected as a marine
sanctuary, while the rest is still open to varying degrees of
exploitation and degradation.

With your help, WWF is aiming to increase this level of protection to
around 50%.

http://www.passport.panda.org/campaign/index.cfm?campaign=2174&lang=13&campaign_\
lang=13

Establishing such a large network of marine sanctuaries - areas where
commercial and recreational fishing is prohibited - has never been
attempted before, and this plan could set a new benchmark for marine
conservation that will have global significance.

Turning this plan into law will not be easy, but you can help to make it
a reality.

*A marine wonderland under threat*

The Great Barrier Reef, a complex system of nearly 3,000 separate reefs,
is one of the planet's most spectacular sites. It is the only 'living'
organism visible from space, and is home to:

an estimated 1,500 species of fish
359 of the worlds 400 types of hard coral
215 bird species, of which 29 are seabirds
30 species of marine mammals, including the endangered dugong
6 species of marine turtles, all listed as threatened

But this spectacular Reef, which took millions of years to form, is
fighting for its life. Overfishing, seafloor trawling, coral bleaching
caused by climate change and pollution run-off from the land are all
taking a terrible toll on the Reef. In recent years, many inshore reefs
have begun dying and the number of fish species has declined.

The Reef desperately needs a higher level of protection than it
currently receives, so it can return to its healthy state and be more
resilient to the threats it faces.

*Increased protection critical*

The Australian Government has released a draft plan proposing to zone
32.5% of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as a marine sanctuary.
WWF-Australia, supported by Panda Passport holders, have long campaigned
for a significant increase in the level of protection. While the draft
plan is a step in the right direction, there are some key concerns,
including:

many turtle nesting sites and areas of dugong habitat remain
under-protected
sea floor trawling, a practice that destroys up to 10 times more marine
life than is harvested, remains permitted along large parts of the
coastline and between a number of reefs
many special and unique sites are lacking the protection they require

WWF believes that to help ensure the Reef is healthy for future
generations to enjoy, around 50% of the Marine Park should be declared a
marine sanctuary.

*Take action now!*

The Australian Governments plan to 're-zone' the Park this year
presents a once in a lifetime opportunity to protect the Great Barrier
Reef.

The Government is accepting public submissions on the draft plan until
August 4th - this is your chance to have a say and support WWF's call
for increased protection.

***TAKE ACTION***

Send an email now to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority:

http://www.passport.panda.org/campaign/index.cfm?campaign=2174&lang=13&campaign_\
lang=13

Also sign WWF - Australia's petition
http://www.gbr.wwf.org.au/mailinglist2/AddNewEmail2.asp

also see
http://www.gbr.wwf.org.au/

From Defenders of WildLife
 Dolphins fall victim to illegal trade

In the tiny, war-torn Solomon Islands, a wealthy Canadian businessman is paying poor fishermen to capture wild dolphins for sale on the international market. As many as 200 dolphins have been captured already, and bidders are arriving from around the world. The first 28 of these dolphins have been shipped to Mexico to be used in a "swim-with-dolphins" attraction at a Cancun water park. Act now to help us stop this illegal and harmful trade and return these dolphins to the wild where they belong. Visit the DEN Action Center at http://den.defenders.organd click on alert number 246.

ENERGY DEVELOPMENT THREATENS SEA TURTLES AND MIGRATORY BIRDS IN PERU

ACTION DEADLINE: July 29, 2003

Now is the time to speak out against development that would harm a fragile marine reserve in Peru that is habitat for whales, sea otters, four species of sea turtles, and more than 60 species of migratory birds.

The proposed development--a natural gas liquids fractionation plant and a marine terminal located near the Paracas National Reserve--is part of a huge energy project that involves transporting natural gas and derivates from the tropical forest, across the Andes to the coast.

May God bless all of you!

I had created a new group with the name of BIRDS at Birds
Category.Birdlife International's(2000)Threatened Birds of the World
lists 1186 species as Endangered, Threatened,or Vulnerable.10% of the
birds in the world are threatened with extinction in the near future,
almost all of them due to the destruction of habitat by man.In this
group you can take active participation for the conservation of
endangered bird species

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/B_I_R_D_S/

Regards,
Dr.Syed Shehzad Ahmed
akif1999@...

ACTION ALERT
Peruvian Gas Project Threatens Rainforests & Indigenous Peoples

By Forests.org, http://forests.org/
July 30, 2003

TAKE ACTION:
  Save Peru's Rainforests and Indigenous Peoples
  http://forests.org/emailaction/peru.htm
  Current until August 6, 2003

Efforts to conduct industrial gas development in one of the 
World's most biologically diverse rainforests face an important 
vote next week.  The Camisea project in Peru seeks to exploit gas 
fields deep in the Peruvian Amazon.  Peru's Lower Urubamba Region 
houses nearly 800 species of birds, 120 species of fish, 86 
species of reptiles, and 369 species of mammals.  These 
rainforests are also the legally recognized territory of two 
isolated indigenous tribes.  Researchers had found the region to 
be in a "nearly pristine condition".  The Bush Administration is 
putting pressure on the IDB and the Export-Import Bank of the 
United States to approve loan guarantees to benefit his top 
contributors and oil/gas industry cronies.  Please take the time 
to send protest emails at http://forests.org/emailaction/peru.htm 

Hi All,

I'm forwarding the following from author Barbara Davis.

SueC

From Barbara:

I thought you might want to tune into you local CBS channel
for tonights news! Fri Aug 1

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/08/01/eveningnews/main15214.shtml


(CBS) HERE’S AN EARLY LOOK AT WHAT WE’RE PLANNING FOR FRIDAY’S
BROADCAST OF
THE CBS EVENING NEWS:

In a CBS News undercover investigation---Meat from exotic animals
like monkeys isn't supposed to be sold in this country.. but today
there's a thriving market in it. That story and more on Friday’s CBS EVENING
NEWS.


cheers
.....b.

Barbara Davis
DARKSIDE OF DEBONAIR -The Bushmeat Trade
2003 Benjamin Franklin Award
SILVER MEDALLION - POPULAR FICTION
Discover Africa's Dirty Secret
www.redbarnpress.com

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Hasan,a male engineer from Egypt asked me whether the shooting of
live pigeons is allowed or not&I answered that it is prohibited.

Name Hassan - Egypt

Profession Engineer

Question

As-Salamu `alaykum. I practice a hobby in my local shooting club
where live pigeons are released from cages for shooters to shoot at
them. We shoot for practice purposes, and the pigeons that shot are
later sold at a very small price to poor people. Is shooting at live
pigeons, although I will not eat them (someone else will), halal
(permissible) or haram (prohibited)? Thank you.

My Answer

It is totally prohibited to use the living things as targets for
shooting or whatever.That practice is included under the type of
exemplary killing. Targeting or shooting at living things is thus
totally haram (prohibited).

Its biodiversity is being destroyed at a fast clip, perhaps reaching
an irreversible trend.  Sooner rather than later, many of its plants
and animals may be as dead as the proverbial dodo - the large,
flightless bird that is now extinct.

http://islamonline.net/English/Science/2003/08/article03.shtml

May God bless all of you!

A Proposal to Ban Importation of Wildcaught Birds into European Union

http://www.worldparrottrust.org/trade/tradeindex.htm

Please take a moment to fill out the petition&make your voice heard.

http://www.worldparrottrust.org/trade/tradeform.htm

Thank you very much for your support on this critical issue.

Regards,
Dr.Syed Shehzad Ahmed
akif1999@...

Between 1956 and 1961, about 2,700 painted hunting dogs were killed
in Zimbabwe alone for a bounty paid by the government to protect
livestock. And those were just the recorded deaths.

http://islamonline.net/english/Science/2003/08/article08.shtml

Three Poachers Killed, One Arrested

Tawanda Kanhema
The Herald (Harare)

July 14, 2003--THE poaching war in Gwaai Conservancy has seen at
least four rhinos and 20 painted hunting dogs killed in the past two
months, with game scouts fighting back and killing three poachers and
arresting one who surrendered.

The four poachers are suspected to be Zambians.

Painted Dog Conservation Trust project manager Mr Peter Blinston said
there has been an alarming escalation in the level of poaching
recently, with two study packs of painted dogs, comprising about 20
dogs, having been wiped out in the past week.

"In the past 18 months, we have lost at least 31 dogs in the Gwaai
Conservancy area, which ought to have a dog population of above 60.
The poaching is occurring at a very worrying scale," he said.

Painted hunting dogs or wild dogs are one of Africa's most endangered
species with a mere 3,000 remaining out of 500,000 in 1900.

Hunters and poachers kill the dog, a prolific hunter, mainly for its
heart and liver, which they believe will enhance their hunting skills.

"We are at such a critical point that in six months there will be
nothing," zoologist Mr Gregory Rasmussen, who has been working on the
conservation project since 1989, said.

"There is poaching like I have never seen in 13 years. If it
continues like this there will be nothing in the buffer zone."
Police in Gwaai found one of the protective collars put on the dogs
at a farm worker's house after an anti-poaching team had noticed
inconsistencies in the dogs' movements and traced radio signals from
one of the missing dogs' collars.

Animals that survive poachers' snares are often found with deep cuts
on their necks usually inflicted by the wires used to make the snares.

In some cases elephants have been found with severed trunks.

"If the poaching doesn't stop then the value of national parks and
subsequently tourism will go down," Mr Rasmussen said.

He noted that poaching has the capability to completely undermine the
model A2 resettlement scheme.

"The A2 scheme had the objective to make people gain value from the
resources but poachers are destroying the wealth," he said.

Reports from other parts of the country also indicate that many other
species have been seriously affected in the past 18 months, including
elephants, giraffe and the endangered black rhinos.

Four rhinos are reported to have been killed in the Sinamatella area
in the Hwange National Park in the past two months, bringing the
number of black rhinos killed since September last year to 11.

"It is a very worrying situation," said the head of the anti-poaching
team, Mr Sikhosana Sibanda.

"If things continue in this way we will be out of the job in three
months . . . there will be no anti-poaching to do."

In 2002 alone, poachers killed about 595 impala, 340 kudu, seven
giraffes, six elephants and one black rhino.

According to estimates by the Zimbabwe Wildlife Producers
Association, half of the country's wildlife has been killed in the
past two years.

Mr Blinston blamed the escalation in the level of poaching on the
recent drought and high levels of unemployment.

"Added to that is the problem of absentee landlords," he said.

"Most of the surrounding farms are manned by inexperienced staff who
often resort to game as a source of food."

Copyright © 2003 The Herald. All rights reserved. Distributed by
AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).







--- In AntiPoachers@yahoogroups.com, "Syed. S. Ahmed" <akif1999@y...>
wrote:
> Between 1956 and 1961, about 2,700 painted hunting dogs were killed
> in Zimbabwe alone for a bounty paid by the government to protect
> livestock. And those were just the recorded deaths.
>
> http://islamonline.net/english/Science/2003/08/article08.shtml