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The hunters become the hunted: Indian state sanctions shooting animal poachers
A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.
The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime.
According to the Wildlife Protection Society of India, 14 tigers have been killed by poachers in India so far this year — one more than for all of 2011. The tiger is considered endangered, with its habitat range shrinking more than 50 per cent in the last quarter-century and its numbers declining rapidly from the 5,000-7,000 estimated in the 1990s, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. (AP Photo/Corbett Tiger Reserve)
Source: nationalpost
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When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That’s what it’s all about.
I hear there is a swarm of dragonflies over the SFAI ramp!! ;) (Taken with instagram)
Come see how these are hung in my exhibition in the Diego Riviera Gallery at SFAI 4:30-7pm this evening! (Taken with instagram)
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
The start in my weaving of nets that will hold my plants in our ceramic bottles. Catch the show this Tuesday in the Diego Riviera Gallery! (Taken with instagram)
Are you people seeing that water droplet on the tip of my pothos plant?! I DID NOT WATER IT THIS MORNING OR LAST NIGHT. (Taken with instagram)
What is this you may ask?… Traditional Jewish kugel - made with chocolate noodles! (Taken with instagram)
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