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Chinese eat up Zimbabwe’s endangered wildlife
globalpost.com ^ | April 12, 2012 | Erin Conway-Smith

Posted on 04/12/2012 10:30:28 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Chinese workers in Zimbabwe are buying up the local wildlife for dinner, feasting on endangered tortoises, pythons, leopards — and even village dogs.

Viewed as prestigious dishes, they would be expensive to serve at banquets back in China. But in Zimbabwe they are relatively cheap. Worse yet, in this cash-strapped country there’s a lack of resources to thwart the appetite for endangered game, conservation groups say.

China is investing significantly in mining, agriculture and construction, and its companies bring along thousands of workers.

Where there are Chinese in Africa, illegal trade in rare animals inevitably increases, according to experts. In Kenya, elephant poaching rose sharply along roads built by Chinese construction crews, and markets in Ethiopia cater to the Chinese demand for ivory chopsticks and other illicit souvenirs.

One recent case in Zimbabwe involved the gruesome discovery of meat and skeletal remains of 40 tortoises, during a raid on Chinese workers' homes in Masvingo province. The endangered Bell’s Hinged tortoises had been dropped into boiling water while still alive in order to separate the meat from the shell, police and animal welfare officials said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abuse; africa; china; chinese; lawless; stealingresources; zimbabwe
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They kill lots of human babies, too.


21 posted on 06/15/2012 4:00:20 PM PDT by Lady Lucky (God-issued, not govt-issued.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
No way the ruined political/economic infrastructure of Zim would allow for soemthing like that. Before you even got it off the ground the thugs would come and run you off your land.
22 posted on 06/16/2012 11:11:13 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Balding_Eagle

No way the ruined political/economic infrastructure of Zim would allow for something like that. Before you even got it off the ground the thugs would come and run you off your land.


23 posted on 06/16/2012 11:11:52 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Balding_Eagle

You’re right, of course.


24 posted on 06/16/2012 2:46:45 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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