Lindsjo, part of the Thai Society for the Conservation of Wild Animals, decided to operate.
Some people believe the only viable solution to the trade of wild animals is captive breeding.
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The government is expected to formally introduce a law banning the use of wild animals in circuses.
The government has promised to ban the use of wild animals in travelling circuses "at the earliest opportunity".
Wildlife enthusiasts studying the behaviour of wild animals during the eclipse were also delighted with what they saw.
In the second part of the committee MSPs took evidence on a petition calling for a ban on the use of wild animals.
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With a major two-lane highway running through it, Mikumi National Park might be one of the only places in the world to offer views of wild animals and grassy savannahs for the price of a bus ticket.
Similarly, requests have been made from the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) and the Ramsar Convention to support their work on the conservation and sustainable use of migratory species of wild animals and on wetlands respectively.
But it is the lot of many wild animals to meet an untidy end.
The survey of the wild animals, published in the journal Nature, builds on laboratory work which also suggests that male frogs can be feminised through exposure to the weedkiller.
After the introduction of the Dangerous Wild Animals Act in 1976, many private collectors are thought to have turned their animals loose.
Under the terms of the draft Wild Animals in Circuses Bill, the ban will cover any creature not normally domesticated in Britain.
In these areas Wolfe's team, monitoring the flow of viruses between wild animals and humans, hopes to pinpoint potential killer viruses before they establish a big foothold in people.
In places like the Philippine island of Boracay, the transformation is well under way, so I head first to Bacuit Bay, to check out a diminishing rarity: a self-proclaimed tropical paradise that contains no go-kart tracks or daiquiri stands or much of anything but wild animals, water and sand.
Despite proving successful in controlling the diseases of livestock, such as foot and mouth, culling wild animals is controversial because of the lack of evidence that it works.
"The worst impact is the loss of biological function that these wild animals fulfil in nature, " he told the BBC.
But unlike most animals of the wild, the tiger does not dive for cover if it comes face to face with you.
The study, in the Journal of Applied Ecology, seems to confirm findings in wild trials, that selective culling of sick animals is ineffectual at stopping the spread of the disease.
This study uses one of the rare opportunities to study wild animals in a semi-wild setting.
It makes me mad that people are irresponsible and take these animals out of the wild.
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In the last five years, more than 80 people have been killed by wild elephants while 17 of the animals died in retaliatory killings, according to forest ministry officials.
As a couple, the Muries would explore some of the most remote areas of the Alaskan wilderness, defying snow, clouds of mosquitoes in the summer, wild animals and physical toil.
Although that does not sound like a lot, it was enough to concern environmental groups because it is thought that there are just 500 of these animals left in the wild and mothers with calves get hit more frequently.
Our understanding is there are only about seven, and only three of those have what you might consider wild animals.
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Some of the animals were caught in the wild to be used for medical testing, while others were purchased after being kept as pets.
Another concern, raised by lobby groups such as Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists, is that transgenic animals might escape into the wild and contaminate the gene pool, triggering all kinds of unintended consequences.
Now investors are watching "Madagascar, " the story of zoo animals who find themselves in the wild, very closely.
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