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]]> Wildlife SOS established India's first Sloth Bear Rescue sanctuary, the "Agra Bear Rescue Facility" in 2000. To date they have rescued more than 355 bears and bear cubs from the bear dancers, poachers & traders. This facility is need of our support!
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The sealers of the Quebec’s Magdalen Islands have returned home to bury three of the four sealers killed by Canadian Coast Guard incompetence. The fourth is still missing and

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]]> Federal officials want money from congress to obtain land along the Yellowstone River that would allow the bison to cross from the park to a publicly owned forest north of the park. For now, they'll continue to SEND THEM TO SLAUGHTER.
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]]> Missing nine-year-old Shannon Matthews has been found alive, more than three weeks after she disappeared after leaving her school
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]]> Among the biggest threats to tigers is poaching for tiger parts such as: bones, skins, teeth and claws, which are illegally sold for high prices on the black market. Tiger bones are used in traditional Asian medicines to treat such symptoms as joint pain
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]]> South Africa has announced it will reverse its 1995 ban on killing elephants and resume culling of elephants in May. Elephant family groups could be rounded up by helicopters and shot from the air by marksmen.
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]]> This is the fifth year since 2000, Black says, that these resident killer whales have been spotted in the Monterey Bay, and the sixth year they've been seen in California, a migratory behavior some researchers think the whales have adopted because they're
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]]> South Africa announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population.The new regulations on managing elephants, effective May 1, say killing must be through "quick and humane methods and a rifle ...
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]]> A 15-year delay in approving the law due to a strong lobby in Chile’s congress, lead by the Matte and Angelini families, who owns most lucrative bussiness in Chile. Without an appropiate law, Native forests are replaced with foreign species.
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]]> Mark van Roosmalen is a world renouned biologist that has discovered many new species in the Aripuana region of Brazil. He is now under threat by the Brazilian govt. for wanting to gain protection of this region. Please pass this on and help Mark!
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]]> The Amazonian manatee was thought to be the only manatee fully adapted to living in fresh water, until the discovery of the Dwarf manatee. Unfortunately it might be too late! The population of less than 100 are under serious threat. please help
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]]> Madagascar is thought to have more than 300 species of frogs, 99 percent of which are endemic. Frogs are the only amphibians found in Madagascar—there are no toads, salamanders, or newts.
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]]> Either she likes it or I'm dead. I'm crouched next to a magnificent Indo-Chinese tiger at the Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno Forest Monastery in Thailand. Try saying that three times quickly; not surprisingly, it's better known as the "Tiger Temple".
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]]> In a matter of weeks, the European Commission will make an announcement about the trade in seal products in Europe.
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]]> Natalie Portman is committed to animal rights and vegetarianism. She’s out there actually doing things. She has traveled to Rwanda to make a documentary about the endangered Silverback Gorillas and she has designed and marketed a line of vegan footwear.
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]]> Latest Environmental Impact Statement ignores threats to forests and wildlife
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]]> THIS handsome chap, the pride of a Warwickshire zoo, is poised to set off on an amorous mission to help preserve the future of one of the world's most endangered species. His name is Kamal, a rare Asiatic lion, and he has been
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]]> February 26 - The bison death toll continues to climb for Yellowstone National Park, as park officials say they plan to slaughter an estimated 180 animals captured Monday to prevent the spread of disease.

The bison were captured on the north end of
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]]> Tests are being performed on a pygmy sperm whale found stranded off the Florida Keys over the weekend. The whale is in critical condition at the Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo. Marine biologists drew blood from the 10.5-foot-long male to ..
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]]> Wildlife pioneer Bob Irwin has bought a property at Wattle Camp near Kingaroy in the wake of rumours he is no longer welcome at the zoo he founded with his late wife nearly 40 years ago.

Australia Zoo was still refusing to comment last night on report
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]]> Today, IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare www.ifaw.org) and its sister organization, WTI (Wildlife Trust of India) announced that 2 elephant calves and a one-and-a-half year-old greater one-horned rhino were successfully returned to the wild...
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]]> South Africa announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists. Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk did not say how many elephants
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]]> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today the greater sage-grouse will receive additional review to determine if the species warrants protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service is opening a 90-day public comment period...
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]]> Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies are being removed from the endangered species list, following a 13-year effort to restore the animal's population. *Please Visit:
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]]> The water vole, angel shark, roman snail, two species of seahorse will gain extra protection under the law from April, the Government has announced.
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]]> The elephant population has grown from 8,000 in 1995, when killing the animals was outlawed, to about 20,000
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]]> AQUARIUM keepers around the world are scrambling to get their hands on a new species of fish, discovered in an abandoned uranium mine in the Northern Territory.

AQUARIUM keepers around the world are scrambling to get their hands on a new species of fis
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]]> HAVE you ever heard of a fennec fox or a binturong?

These unusual creatures are two of the new additions at historic Taronga Zoo.

"We saw about 99 new animals come in this year," the zoo's registar of collections Dr Sara Brice said.

"Some were
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]]> South Africa said Monday that it will start killing elephants to reduce their burgeoning numbers, ending a 13-year ban and possibly setting a precedent for other African nations. Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said the government was left
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]]> All across Africa conservation groups are working to preserve populations of threatened elephants from threats like ivory poachers.
Recently, however, the South African government decided that the population in their country was sufficiently large to
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]]> Three hundred police and security agents have been deployed to the Amazon in a massive crackdown ordered by the Brazilian government against loggers illegally stripping the forest, officials said Tuesday.
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]]> Deforestation in a single Indonesian province is releasing more greenhouse gases than the Netherlands, and the loss of habitats is threatening rare tigers and elephants, the WWF conservation group said
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]]> The destruction of Sumatra's natural forests is accelerating global climate change and pushing endangered species closer to extinction, a new report warned today.

A study from WWF claims that converting the forests and peat swamps of just one Sumatran
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]]> Reasons for the death of wild animals in zoos came to fore today when a delegate from Chennai exposed the health management system at Indian zoos.

Professor and head of the Madras Veterinary College Bioinformatics Centre, P. Dhanapalan, presented
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]]> In Defense of Animals (IDA) today called on San Francisco Zoo Executive Director Manuel Mollinedo to prioritize animal welfare and end public feedings of the tigers and lions. The animal protection organization says that by allowing the public into the
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]]> In 1941, 24 miles of security fencing enclosed the area now known as the Conservation Area (CA) of the former Seneca Army Depot. Captured within the fence line of the CA were several whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) of the normal brown coloration.
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]]> The Central Florida Zoo is asking for help to name a baby primate born just one week ago. It looks like a baby monkey, but it's actually a lesser spot-nosed guenon. "(It's) another successful birth. One that's very rare, so we're very
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]]> decline in demand for other furs, including seal pelts, a local
tannery operator is warning.

None of the 3,500 seal pelts offered in Copenhagen sold.
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]]> A gruesome experience in the basement of a bear farm in southern China inspired Jill Robinson to start Animals Asia Foundation 10 years ago. UK-born Jill was on a tour when she had her first encounter with the cruel abuse and ‘milking’ of bile
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]]> Jaya is the new name of a baby orangutan at Como Zoo in St. Paul. Jaya is an Indonesian name meaning celebration and victorious. The name Jaya was selected over Bejo and Pandu. Since January, guests were able to vote for the
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]]> Washington state investigators say poachers apparently are using cars to run down deer near Ocean Shores. Fish and Wildlife Sgt. Brad L. Rhoden says a search warrant was served on Wednesday, and the meat and hides from about
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]]> A musk deer of three years age was recovered by locals in the outskirts of Srinagar, today. Later, the musk deer was handed over to wildlife authorities. The residents of Habak, some 14 kms from summer capital Srinagar, noticed a musk
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]]> Two orphaned mountain lion cubs have a new home at the Denver Zoo. One was found when she was just six weeks old, wandering along a highway in Washington state. Her name is Cassy, and she is now three months old and weighs 22 pounds. The other was two
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]]> A 15-year-old South Australian school student has busted the myth that goldfish have a three second memory.

Rory Stokes, from the Australian Science and Mathematics School in Adelaide, conducted an experiment to test the commonly held theory that goldf
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]]> animals are crushed into barbed
wire cages for transport to slaughter
– forced to lay on each other for
days with no food or water. Animals
are removed with tongs ...
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