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Oral history of Vallikkada Panickers, Kerala, India
Panickers were from Tamil Nadu. They were of Kshatriya caste who later embraced Christianity. Its members were experts in astrology, traditional medicine and martial arts. Even before they settled down at Avoli (now in Ernakulam district), they had become famous on account of their exploits in martial arts. They were not land lords, but tenants of Pazhoor ...
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PROJECTS
Tiger Thein Aung acquired his name after surviving a tiger attack in Myanmars Arakan mountains. At right, a group of Vietnamese businessmen display a tiger skeleton for sale for traditional medicine to undercover investigators from the wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC. CAT projects are developing innovative approaches to reducing conflicts between big cats and people. When large predators ...
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Tiger in Cambodia
Biological surveys are finding confirming that Cambodia holds some of Southeast Asias richest populations of rare species. But tigers are disappearing fast under pressure from the black market traditional medicine trade. The Cambodia Tiger Conservation Program has hired former tiger hunters as community wildlife rangers, who are paid to protect tigers rather than poach them, and carry ...
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Middle East Natural Products Expo to showcase
Abdulla S. Al Matroushi, Chairman of Global Links. Running alongside the major event will be a ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
In addition, the eggs, liver oil, and bile of sawfishes can be used in Chinese traditional medicine. Also, like all other sawfishes, their rostra may be used in traditional medicine, as religious offerings, and sold as curios. In addition to these uses of the green sawfish, Australian Aboriginals sometimes depict sawfishes such as this species in their bark paintings, ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Freshwater Sawfish
In addition, the eggs, liver oil, and bile of sawfishes can be used in Chinese traditional medicine. Also, like all other sawfishes, their rostra may be used in traditional medicine, as religious offerings, and sold as curios. There is little or no indication of utilization of this species as food anywhere in its range. Freshwater sawfish provide an available food ...
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Kind Planet Environmental Info - Biodiversity - Part of Our Environmental Forum
In the developing world, 80% of the population relies on traditional medicine, including wild and cultivated medicinal plants, as the primary source of health care. In ... the potential uses of biodiversity at the microscopic level. The fields of diagnostic and forensic medicine have been greatly advanced by the polymerase chain reaction, produced by a bacterial enzyme found ...
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Save The Tiger Fund | Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners
Read IFAW's brochure "What's Hiding inside your Traditional Medicine?" English   Chinese Explore this website about endangered species and TCM compiled by the American ... their impact on the trade of endangered medicinal species. By using philosophical ideas of the medicine itself as a motivation for protection, it offers a paradigm for conservation that can be ...
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A Traditional Indian Understanding on Waste and Consumption
A Traditional Indian Understanding on Waste & Consumption Dan Ennis Tobique First Nation December 2002 t the time of ... 's creation, including respect for ourselves. In this way, we produced intuitive (of the heart) traditional medicine elders, as opposed to intellectual (of the head) physicians. We didnt see a need ...
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WWF - Traditional medicinal and magic uses of tiger parts in Sumatra
Threats Trade in tiger parts Poaching Poacher's story Trade Medicinal use Bengal tiger Malayan tiger Traditional medicinal and magic uses of tiger parts in Sumatra Canines | Claws | Whiskers | Tail Skin | Skin ... Tiger gall is dried and put into tablets used to cure bone diseases. Flesh - Traditional medicine, crop protection Flesh is cooked and eaten to treat skin diseases. Farmers are also known ...
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