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Bison Girls Gone Wild Get Birth Control
Animals  (tags: bisons, Birth Control, reduction, herd )

Lone
- 11 hours ago - chicagotribune.com
AVALON, Calif. - -- Half a dozen men with walkie-talkies and cattle prods set out on foot at sunrise last week to coax a herd of 10 feral bison into a corral a mile away at the bottom of a Santa Catalina Island valley.
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Thirsty Camels Lay Siege to Australian Outback Town
World  (tags: News, australia, animals, camels, water scarcity )

Katie
- 20 hours ago - telegraph.co.uk
Docker River, an Australian Outback town, is under siege from 6,000 wild camels which have laid waste to the area in search of water. Residents in the Northern Territory settlement have been left cowering in their homes after the animals trampled fences..
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2010 Native American $1 Dollar Design Unveiled
Society & Culture  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, Money, culture, society, interesting )

Kat
- 18 hours ago - coinnews.net
As dictated by the Native American $1 Coin Act (Public Law 110-82), the reverse of these coins feature a different reverse design annually that contain "images celebrating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans
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China Unveils Carbon Target for Copenhagen Deal
Environment  (tags: News, copenhagen summit, China, Carbon targets, environment )

Katie
- 20 hours ago - uk.reuters.com
China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to aid a global climate deal.
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Birdsong Helps Scientists to Count Bird Populations
World  (tags: News, Animal, Bird, scientists, Science and Technology, population )

Katie
- 20 hours ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Ecologists have developed a way of monitoring the sizes of bird populations by recording their song.Writing in the Journal of Applied Ecology, the team says the new technique gives a more accurate estimate of numbers.
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Four Lucky Cats: Duct-Taped Cats All Freed
Animals  (tags: animal cruelty, investigation, cats duct taped, rescued )

Simone
- 1 day ago - content.usatoday.com
Remember the story in October about Sticky the cat, found duct taped in Philadelphia and left for dead? She lived and was adopted. That was a happy ending to a vicious act we thought we'd never hear about again.
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Rare Butterfly Rediscovered in Maine
Animals  (tags: animals, butterfly, rare animals, Rediscovered )

Katie
- 20 hours ago - planetsave.com
The Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly species was identified in September by Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department biologists. 1934 was the last Maine sighting of the butterfly. The recent finding was in the hardwood swamps of Berwick and Wells.
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Australians Say No to Live Export
Animals  (tags: australians, outraged, live animal exports, petitions, goverment, middle east )

Simone
- 1 day ago - ibtimes.com.au
The largest single petition ever lodged with the Rudd Government's Petitions Committee includes the signatures of over 34,000 Australians opposed to live animal exports to the Middle East. The huge box of petitions arrived this week - just as Australian
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Touched By NC Girl's Death, Shaq Pays for Funeral
Society & Culture  (tags: basketball star, funeral, child, murder, rape, kidnapped )

Lone
- 15 hours ago - sfgate.com
Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl after being moved by national news coverage of the case of Shaniya Davis, who police say was kidnapped and killed
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WDCS Pushes For A Network Of Protected Areas In Western Australian Waters ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, marine life, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 1 day ago - wdcs.org
WDCS has been working, as part of the Save Our Marine Life coalition, towards a network of marine protected areas in the west of Australia that will be a safe haven for whales and dolphins and the ecosystems they call home - over an area that is almost
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NJ Town Rejects Proposed Ban On Wolf-Hybrid Dogs
Animals  (tags: wolf dogs, hydrid, escaping, holland township, rejected ban )

Simone
- 1 day ago - kdka.com
A town committee has decided not to ban wolf-hybrid dogs a day after a resident's animals escaped for the third time in three months. Holland Township officials had proposed the ordinance in September, after five of Cliff Zager's 14 wolf dogs escaped.
5 comments
Rare Photo of Three Amur Leopards Offers Hope for World's Most Endangered Cat
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, leopards, environment, endangered, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 1 day ago - prweb.com
Three Amur leopards photographed during an anti-poaching operation in the Russian Far East offer a little Thanksgiving hope for the worlds rarest big cat, World Wildlife Fund said today. Only about 40 critically endangered Amur leopards exist in the
5 comments
Indian Activist Angie Osborne Dies
Society & Culture  (tags: death, women, culture, Native American, activists )

Lone
- 12 hours ago - fresnobee.com
A Choinumni tribal member who fought to preserve traditional burial ground in Piedra on the south bank of the Kings River east of Fresno, will be buried there. Angie "Yo-Wis-Nuth" Osborne started working toward land and recognition
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Biologist: Desert Tortoises Have Flu-Like Illness
Animals  (tags: endangered, desert tortoises, sickness, research )

Lone
- 13 hours ago - heraldextra.com
It's cold and flu season on southern Utah's Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, only it's not people who are sick _ it the tortoises
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Stop Dangerous Double Counting ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, humans, protection )

Cher
- 1 day ago - thepetitionsite.com
People in the poorest parts of the world will be hit first and worst by climate change. Many leaders are promising to help people living in extreme poverty adapt to the effects of climate change and to help reduce emissions. This sounds great, but
21 comments
 
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