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Iris Ho

@iris-ho.bsky.social
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Immigrant🦋Taiwanese American 💫Wildlife advocate 🦍🐘🐆🌳 Washington DC.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 16/02/2025
Industrial meat and dairy rivals the fossil fuel industry for carbon pollution, and apparently for dirty tricks to intimidate their critics, too.
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They spoke up about factory farming. Now, they’re being threatened by their neighbors.
How Big Meat silences its critics.
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Iris Ho @iris-ho.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
No one needs a polar bear rug or trophy other than for bragging. There is the subsistance hunting which is non-commercial and there is hunting for the purpose of obtaining a trophy or polar bear furs to sell them to international markets like China. Proponents of the latter conflate the two.
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Iris Ho @iris-ho.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Some 1%ers collect rare art while some collect exotic animals under the guise of conservation and rescues. When your wedding guests include Ivanka Trump, Bill Gates and other elites entertained by Rhianna, nothing can stop you from acquiring anything under the ☀️ pulitzercenter.org/stories/cost...
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The Costs of Reliance’s Wildlife Ambitions
Led by Anant Ambani and supported by the Indian government, Reliance’s effort to shelter abused elephants has transmuted into an enormous wildlife centre – raising concerns over the sourcing of some.....
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/02/2025
WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals
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WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals
Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy hunting The wildlife charity WWF has been working to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of…
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