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]]> LES ULIS, France — When their local bakery in this town south of Paris raised the price of a baguette for the third time in six months, Anne-Laure Renard and Guy Talpot bought a bread maker. When gasoline became their biggest single expense, they sold one
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]]> These attacks sent out by Blumenthal, long known for his fierce and combative loyalty to the Clintons, draw on a wide variety of sources to spread his Obama-bashing. Some of the pieces are culled from the mainstream media and include some reasoned swipes
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]]> After decades of research that sought, and found, evidence of a human influence on the earth’s climate, climatologists are beginning to shift to a new and similarly daunting enterprise: creating decade-long forecasts for climate, just as meteorologists ro
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]]> Point Pelee National Park To Kill Over 7000 Birds In Four Days.



Beginning April 30, 2008, Parks Canada will shoot thousands of nesting double-crested cormorants at Point Pelee National Park. They have scheduled 4 days - April 30, May 1, 2, and
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]]> Don’t get too excited to tell your future grandchildren you remember the “Milton cougar” of 2008. Cougar sightings are likely to become more common, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wildlife supervisor Doug Fendry said.
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]]> You can give your mom something special and support your favorite
nonprofit all in one purchase.

Check out the OneWorld Gift Guide for unique gift ideas from
nonprofits nationwide.

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]]> The United States and the European Union have taken a "criminal path" by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said today.
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]]> --more than 10 dogs were found dead in a cemetery in the last six months.

The dogs were shot, poisoned or dismembered and then dumped one at a time or in groups.
"There were a few dogs decapitated, some lost their limbs"...
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]]> The Harper government and Parks Canada have decided to shoot thousands of nesting Double-crested Cormorants at Middle Island, Point Pelee National Park. They plan to reduce the vibrant and historical colonial waterbird colony by 90%, destabilizing the
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]]> The future of animal welfare lies in achieving international recognition that animals matter. WSPA is seeking this in the form of a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (UDAW). ***Please Sign!
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]]> Moose and bears soon may come under the gun in Connecticut. The state House voted Wednesday to authorize the hunting of moose and bear. The legislation now heads to the Senate.
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]]> A wild bear taken by poachers may have less than a 60% chance of surviving the non-medical procedure to create a permanent open wound in her abdomen from which bile can be drained, twice every day, by re-inserting a catheter. Bile that’s used in...
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]]> Everybody in Whistler knows Jeanie. The large dark brown bear with the tan V on her chest and the many cubs she has born are followed like a soap opera in the columns of the local papers.
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]]> A local child and future seeing-eye dog candidate at the centre of an upcoming fundraiser for the blind met a guide puppy in training yesterday.

Five-year-old Rosie McDougald met five-month old puppy Nelson in celebration of International Guide Dog
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]]> It is estimated that up to half a million dogs are consumed every year. Despite the banning of commercial dog meat trading in 1998, the penalty, a nominal fine, was not stopping traders from breaking the law. However,in early 2007,Network for Animals,
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]]> - Authorities are investigating the cutting off of the tails of two donkeys on a Wautoma farm.

Sue Jazdzewski says about five inches of bone and flesh were recently cut off of one of the donkeys, and then it happened again a week later to another
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]]> Despite a declining population of Cape Fur seals and high natural mortality rates, hunting quotas have steadily increased over the years...What’s worse, there is no oversight of the killing methods.
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]]> Clinton: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them." WAR! WAR!
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]]> An extremely rare leopard reared its magnificent spotted head in a trap set by a team of biologists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in a remote Russian forest. The Far Eastern leopard is the world’s most endangered big cat—just 30 are
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]]> hundreds of thousands of defenseless and trusting dogs - many of them stolen pets - are rounded up in the Philippines and slaughtered for the illegal dog meat trade.
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]]> Four-legged Canadian heroes will be honoured at
the 40th annual Purina Animal Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Monday,
May 5th. To mark this milestone anniversary, five valiant animals, including
one service dog, will be recognized for their life
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]]> Nobody doles out taxpayer money like Hillary Clinton — or rakes in as much campaign cash from the companies she does favors for
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]]> In early April, FVP wildlife health fellow Dr. Marcela Uhart spent over two weeks at Lihue Calel National Park in La Pampa, Argentine. There she joined the "Small Wild Cats" team from ACEN, led by biologists Javier Pereira and Natalia Fracassi.
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]]> At the time of slaughter, many of these defenceless pups had not yet eaten their first solid food or taken their first swim - they literally had no escape from the “hunters”...
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]]> Studies of several bird species, including the endangered California Condor, have provided extensive documentation of the health hazard posed to birds that ingest lead ammunition residues in the remains of gun-killed animals. Now, new studies suggest that
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]]> Two Asiatic cheetahs received newfangled necklaces from an international team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) working in Iran. The big cat “bling”—also known as Global Positioning System (GPS) collars—will track the movements
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]]> Due to the latest rage influenced by Hollywood celebs and socialites, tiny, cute, cuddly puppies are in big demand. Big demand equals are big money makers and unscrupulous breeders are gonna make sure they get their green. Websites and ads are popping
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]]> The Norwegian whaling season, which normally runs from April to August, began with the killing of a Minke whale calf. Sadly this will be the first of up to 1,052..
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]]> 68 Asian Box Turtles, 7 Black Marsh Turtles, 175 Malayan Snail-eating Turtles, 12 Yellow Headed Temple Turtles (endangered species), 2 Red Eared Slider Turtles (a species not native to South East Asia), 11 Reticulated Pythons and 13 Burmese Pythons.
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]]> Evolving over 4 million years ago and able to employ breathtaking acceleration to achieve speeds of around 110 km/h, the oldest of the African 'big cats' and the fastest land mammal on Earth is today engaged in a race against extinction.

The cheetahs
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]]> As the world's fastest land animal, the cheetah is the quintessence of speed. With its narrow body, small head and supple spine, this highly specialized member of the cat family can reach speeds of more than 60 miles per hour in pursuit of its prey.
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]]> Nala was fitted with a GSM collar from African Wildlife Tracking, a relatively recent development in satellite collars which works via the cellular network. The collar was programmed to send her location once every 12 hours.
Since then it has been
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]]> Download - ifaw, animals, animal welfare, environment, conservation, habitat, nature, wildlife, seals, whales. Google Powered Seach...
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]]> It's your right to choose your health products and therapies. Stop government from enforcing U.S. law and other jurisdictions upon Canadians without consent. STOP C-51!!!
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]]> A new study shows that pregnant moose move closer to town when it’s time to give birth. It’s not the pickles and ice cream they’re after, however, but security from road-shy grizzly bears. The study, by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) biologist
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]]> Odzala is teaming with wildlife, and one of its remarkable qualities is the high density of western lowland gorillas. Current estimates suggest that there may be as many gorillas in this park as previously thought to exist in all of Central Africa.
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]]> This week Advocacy for Animals presents a first-person account by Carole Baskin, the founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue, a Florida sanctuary for more than 100 unwanted and rescued lions, tigers, cougars, and other big cats. We think you will find her story
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]]> The surveys revealed a total of over 60 varieties of large mammals, including eight primate species and six cat species. In the Kirirom National Park, for example, surveyors sighted the elusive spotted linsang, a slender cat-like carnivore, the first
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]]> Consider the life of an elephant on the plains of Africa. She lives in a family group that may include her mother, sisters, and aunts and their children as well as other, unrelated females and pre-adolescent males. With this group she wanders for miles
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]]> Fox 5 Orlando is reporting that woman found dead in her home is Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "DC Madam." Her death is apparently a suicide:


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]]> Nobel Peace Prize winner and international symbol of freedom Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation "embarrassing," and ...
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]]> Two elephants were electrocuted early Thursday when they came in contact with a high-tension overhead wire near the Badrama wildlife sanctuary in Orissa's Sambalpur district, a forest official said.

A 40-year-old elephant and her 10-year-old calf died
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]]> INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - If Michelle Obama had her way, her husband Barack would have become a teacher, a writer, a singer, a dancer -- anything but a politician with the chance to make history as the first black president of the United States.
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]]> One of two wild bears in Switzerland has been shot and killed on government orders because it had lost its fear of humans, officials said Tuesday.

Environmental organizations expressed dismay, but government officials said they had no choice.


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]]> I tried to explain the importance of flow rates, the concept of a plateau at the top of Hubbert's Peak, the limits of enhanced oil recovery, and the time it takes to bring new solutions to market, but my words seemed to fall on deaf ears.
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