Archives: December2009

• Brown Honeyeater

  
  
  A Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta) pokes his tongue out for the camera. I took the photo back in March this year in the Greater Bendigo National Park.
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  <br />EXIF: Canon EOS 50D : 1/1250 sec : f 5.6 : 400 mm : ISO 160

• Sharks Killed for Oil Used in Swine Flu Vaccine

  Millions of doses of the H1N1/09 vaccine contain a substance called squalene, which is extracted from the livers of rare deep-sea sharks caught in the wild, conservationists say.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• PICTURES: Tigers Butchered for Trade at “Zoos” in China

  Many Chinese tourist attractions are secretly operating as fronts for illegal tiger farming, butchering captive tigers for the multibillion-dollar black market in wildlife parts, conservationists say.