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Sudarshan Shaw:Breaking Definitions of Art & Nature.

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Ep#30 Season 4 Heart of Conservation Transcript (Edited) Read or Listen. All paintings-photos courtesy Sudarshan Shaw. 0:05 Lalitha Krishnan:  I’m Lalitha Krishnan and you’re listening to episode #30, season 4 of Heart of Conservation. I bring you stories from the wild that keep us all connected to the natural world. For someone who has no sense of direction and couldn’t probably read a map to save her life, I have to say I practically drooled over one visually delightful map that I came across on Instagram.  It conveyed a spectacular visually-rich story of a place, its people and art and…
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Chewy Connect With a Vet faces criticism, legal hurdles

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The Chewy.com application is displayed in the on an Apple iPhone. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chewythe e-commerce pet-goods giant best known for its convenient auto-ship services and generous return policies, wants to grow its veterinary telehealth service as part of an overall push into health care. While the telehealth service is a small part of the company’s rapidly expanding health offerings, it is important to its strategy. Yet it also faces regulatory obstacles and skepticism from the veterinary community. Longtime veterinarians told CNBC the service can have some benefits for minor situations, or for people who don’t…
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Puppy farms supplying the dog meat trade found ahead of the controversial Yulin Festival in China

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Well-concealed puppy farms have been found in the Chinese countryside ahead of the country’s controversial Yulin Dog Meat Festival which starts on June 21. The annual festival, which began around 2010, sees dogs and cats – who are often stolen pets – brutally tortured and killed on the street before they are made into dishes for stalls and restaurants to serve. Over the 10-day event, it is thought that up to 10,000 dogs and 5,000 cats were killed and eaten. A number of these animals will come from the farms, in the Guangxi province en route to Yulin, which were…
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