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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Mausoleum for Endangered Species !!
PLEASE Scroll scroll scroll down !! TY. New York Times :
A warehouse in Colorado offers evidence of the immense demand for goods made from threatened and endangered animals.
The cabinets and shelves of the National Wildlife Property Repository,
just northeast of Denver, are crammed with stuffed monkeys and ivory
carvings, snow leopard coats and dried seal penises, chairs with tails
and lamps with hooves. Most of them are contraband, seized at airports
in New York City, Los Angeles and other major ports of entry; some are
donated by people who have no use for them. The photographer Tristan
Spinski recently visited the repository, producing images that testify
to the human appetite for other species. RACHEL NUWER
Clockwise from top left: A
mounted rhinoceros horn; a chair covered in margay, a small cat native
to Central and South America; a stuffed macaque; shoes made of leopard
skin; a brown bear rug; a tiger’s tail.
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The repository contains 1.3 million confiscated items occupying 22,000 square feet. One section holds leopard and tiger skins.
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Clockwise from top left: A
stuffed macaw; a lamp of snakeskin and zebra hooves; pills of dried seal
penis; a mounted moose head; a coat of python skin and red fox fur; a
briefcase covered in elephant skin, whale tooth, warthog tusk and
kangaroo.
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Some items in the repository
are confiscated from naive tourists, but most are part of a global trade
in endangered wildlife. Above, a rug made from a polar bear.
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Clockwise from top left: A
foot stool in leopard skin; a whale vertebra; a purse with leopard trim;
boots made of cobra skin; a leopard skin coat; a sea turtle’s skull.
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About 15 percent of the
wildlife goods seized at national ports wind up at the repository. Many
are simply oddities, like the painted deer’s head, above.
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Clockwise from top left: a
purse of alligator skin; a stool made of an African elephant foot with a
zebra skin cushion; walrus tusks; a hat made of black bear skin;
medicinal snake wine; an orangutan skull.
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The repository, outside
Denver, is the only facility of its type in the world, and its wares are
unique. Officials have donated more than 148,000 items to universities,
zoos and aquariums.
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