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what might be over now:

We may be the first country to create national parks, but our endangered species are a political football and a joke.
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Irwin was also unlike the Las Vegas tiger tamers Siegfried and Roy. Roy Horn was mauled and nearly killed by a white tiger he had anthropomorphized. Irwin was perfectly happy to let his love scenes with crocs remain unrequited.

Sally Eckhoff/Spiegel 07.09.06
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Nearly half the fish consumed as food worldwide are raised on fish farms rather than caught in the wild...
FAO
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"What consumers don't know, however, is that most of the salmon they buy comes from the marine equivalent of industrial-scale pig farms."

Farmed and Dangerous
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Living Oceans
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Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
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FFAW/CAW
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Raincoast Research Society

"Shrimp farmers clear-cut mangrove forests and other coastal ecosystems then bulldoze shallow pools of several acres each. Local fishermen are prohibited from reaching the ocean by armed guards. People have been killed for walking too close to shrimp farms. The wild seed stock harvest kills five times the non-target species. Water pumped into the pools dries nearby forests while the waste effluent pollutes. Algal blooms thrive on this waste. Drugs can control disease for about seven years. Then the pools must be abandoned and the process repeated further down the coast."

Alexandra Morton
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Post on salmon fishing becomes infested with lice
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[Disturbance in the gallery]