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THE LIVING AMAZON: NEW DIGITAL LOG OF EVERY BRAZILIAN RAIN FOREST SPECIES
Animals  (tags: GoodNews, goodnews, animals, animalwelfare, protection, humans, investigation, habitat, AnimalWelfare )

Cal
- 10 hours ago - worldcrunch.com
Researchers in the northern state of Pará want to use the Internet to track the thousands of plant and animal species in the Brazilian rain forest. It's part of an even more ambitious global project
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Dog Refuses to Leave the Side of Canine Friend Killed in Traffic
Animals  (tags: interesting, off-beat, dogs, ethics, humans, animals )

Dianne Ly
- 14 hours ago - examiner.com
This is a follow up from the news article a few days ago;researchers for the first time scanned a dog's brain in an attempt to determine what man's best friend really thinks and feels.
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ACTION ALERT; Stop Uranium Mine in Tanzanian Wildlife Reserve
Animals  (tags: wildlife, protection, humans, habitat, mining )

Jill
- 19 hours ago - change.org
In June, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, meeting in Russia, will decide whether to change the boundaries of the precious World Heritage site Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania to allow a uranium mine.
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Climate Change Threatens Baby Sea Turtles, Study Says
Animals  (tags: climate-change, animals, wildlife, humans, habitat, weather, animals, animalwelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, humans, habitat )

Cal
- 22 hours ago - globalpost.com
The turtles, already under threat from human poaching, now face the risk of being baked inside their nests as temperatures and humidity rise.
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Costa Rica Assures Fair Trial for Anti-Whaling Crusader
Animals  (tags: Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd, protection, society, humans, animals, animalwelfare, whales )

Cal
- 1 day ago - mnn.com
The Sea Shepherd founder has no doubts about the fiarness of Costa Rica's judicial system, and is instead worried about the 'shark fin mafia of Costa Rica.'
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ENDANGERED: Less Than 100 Pygmy Sloths Survive
Animals  (tags: endangered, animals, animalwelfare, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, sadness, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, habitat, humans )

Cal
- 2 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The pygmy three-toes sloth is one of the world's most endangered mammals, according to the first ever formal survey of the population, which found less than 100 sloths hanging on in their island home.
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It's May 23---Happy World Turtle Day!!
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, turtles, protection, endangered, wildlife, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, habitat, humans, goodnews )

Cal
- 3 days ago - mnn.com
May 23 is World Turtle Day, an annual holiday founded in 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue to raise awareness of turtles' troubles. According to ATR co-founder Susan Tellem, the holiday is meant to generally boost interest in turtles while also specifical
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WWF: 65% Tiger Reserves Have Inadequate Protection
Animals  (tags: tigers, AnimalWelfare, animalwelfare, animals, animaladvocates, protection, humans, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered )

Cal
- 5 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A recent preliminary assessment of 63 legally protected areas in seven tiger range countries shows that only 22, or 35%, maintain WWF's minimum standards of protection.
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Kenya: KWS Defends Relocation of Cheetah Cubs - Update
Animals  (tags: cheetahs, wildlife, humans, endangered )

Jill
- 6 days ago - allafrica.com
Nairobi -- The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has defended its decision to transfer three orphaned cheetah cubs from the Mara Conservancy to the Nairobi Animal Orphanage.
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Kenya: Three Mara Cheetah Cubs Moved to City Orphanage
Animals  (tags: cheetahs, wildlife, humans, endangered )

Jill
- 6 days ago - allafrica.com
Three cheetah cubs at the centre of a row between the Mara Conservancy and the Kenya Wildlife Service have been moved to the city.
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Oklahoma Park Accused of Letting Kids Play With Tigers
Animals  (tags: protection, humans, animals, animalwelfare, tigers, wildlife, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, wildanimals, investigation )

Cal
- 7 days ago - uk.reuters.com
The Humane Society of the United States is accusing an Oklahoma exotic animal park of allowing children to handle and pose for photographs with juvenile tigers in what they called "a petting zoo for carnivores."
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop Horrific Abuse of Tennessee Walking Horses
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, AnimalCruelty, wildlife, protection, humans, animaladvocates, animalrights )

Cal
- 8 days ago - forcechange.com
A new undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States revealed that workers at a nationally known Tennessee Walking horse training barn used caustic chemicals on horses' front legs to produce an artificial high-stepping gait that wins
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Zimbabwe Conservancy Needs Help to Protect Wildlife
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, protection, humans, wildlife, wildanimals, AnimalWelfare, endangered )

Cal
- 8 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Chiredzi River Conservancy is in urgent need of funds, personnel, equipment and assistance to mount a comprehensive Anti-Poaching Patrol Project through our 45,000 hectare conservancy in the South East Lowveld of Zimbabwe in early 2012 and ongoing.
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ACTION ALERT: Government of Jammu Kashmir: Stop Illegal Hunting of Leopards in the Kashmiri Region! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: leopards, killed, slaughtered, protection, humans, habitat, legalisation )

Simone
- 9 days ago - change.org
There are increasing reports of leopards being hunted, shot, the clubbed to death in the Pakistani Controlled Kashmiri region, a number of which have been killd in recent days, as these wild animals are coming into populated areas looking for food
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Sea Shepherd Founder Paul Watson 'Arrested in Germany'
Animals  (tags: Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, anti-whalng activities, whales, wildlife, law, animalwelfare, animals, animalrights, protection, humans, habitat, wildanimals )

Cal
- 11 days ago - bbc.co.uk
The founder of US-based anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, has been arrested in Germany, the group says.
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