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...YOUNG: No, no, never saw him. I watched him from afar, and I thought he was he was just a character. You get that feeling from him that everything that happened to him, he was still who he was. He seemed like a wild guy but a good guy, and somebody that funny things happened...
...might have somebody in it," Reall says. Primarily, the team will log significant areas of damage. Dr. Randy Marriott gives a medical briefing. In addition to the usual hazards-such as the power lines-rescuers are told to watch out for pit vipers and coral snakes and "assume any wild animal to be rabid...
...soup off the menu following public protests over the damage that widespread consumption of the popular Chinese dish was doing to global shark populations. During the 2003 SARS crisis, wildlife activists dared to hope?briefly?that real change was possible. Scientists concluded that SARS had passed from wild civet cats to humans, most likely because the civets are a popular winter dish in China's ye wei or "wild taste" restaurants, which specialize in exotic meats. To safeguard public health, China's wild animal markets were closed, and ye wei restaurants emptied out as officials strictly enforced existing laws with...
...recent day, playing mahjong or smoking, their mobiles rang regularly as restaurants or familiar customers placed orders. "Now deals are usually carried out at dawn or dusk to avoid government inspectors," says Lao Xu, who sells hunting tridents and fermenting jars at the market. "If you want any wild animal, from Brazil turtles to pangolin, I can arrange for it to be delivered to your designated restaurant within several hours...
...have passed from apes to humans through the consumption of chimpanzee meat. SARS killed 774 people in late 2002 and 2003. A recent report by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society warns that similar outbreaks of exotic and virulent viruses may become more common as contact between wild animals and humans in the trade (estimated in the report at 1 billion contacts last year) increases and hunters venture into remote jungle areas in pursuit of wildlife. "Outbreaks resulting from wildlife trade have caused hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage globally," the report notes, adding that because...