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Spotlight shines on Mideast animal trade

17 March, 2010 12:19:07 MSNBC
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An 18-month-old orangutan in a cage at Soekarno Hatta airport, Indonesia, 30 December 2009. Indonesian officials thwarted a plot to smuggle the orangutan and other endangered animals to Saudi Arabia.First meeting of  a U.N. endangered species body in an Arab country is highlighting the fate of animals like a lion found barely alive in Beirut, monkeys hauled through Gaza's tunnels.




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Beirut - Endangered species - Gaza - Arab people - Animal rights

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