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Animals News tagged with politics

The Koala Wars
Animals  (tags: koalas, endangered, politics, australian government, protection, disappearing )

Simone
- 1 day ago - guardian.co.uk
When south-eastern Australia was consumed by bushfires in February, one image shut out all others. Nearly 200 humans might have perished, but a koala had been saved: videoed in a blackened landscape imbibing thirstily from the water bottle of a volunteer
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Sea Shepherd Could Lose Dutch Flag
Animals  (tags: whales, Sea Shepherd, politics, wildlife, animalwelfare, animals, humans )

Cal
- 5 days ago - rnw.nl
The organisation's flag ship sails under the Dutch flag, but a Dutch cabinet member is fed up with the situation. Deputy Transport Minister Tineke Huizinga says Sea Shepherd is endangering relations with Japan. If she gets her way, the environmental organ
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Wayward Camels Cause Tension on Israel-Egypt Border
Animals  (tags: animals, humans, wildlife, wildanimals, politics, animalwelfare )

Cal
- 32 days ago - jpost.com
Every year, hundreds of camels cross the border from Egypt into Israel. Some wander into Israel unwittingly, in search of greener pastures to graze, while others are deliberately sent from Egypt to smuggle in drugs or other illicit materials.
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Whale Wars Saga Begins With Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson Under Investigation
Animals  (tags: whale, wars, Paul, Watson, Sea, Shepherd, Animal, Planet, ocean, Japan, hunt, endangered, extinction, habitat, humans, protection, suffering, cruelty, slaughter, animalrights, investigation, politics, Australia )

Tom
- 49 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Watson's police and court records are being evaluated before he's allowed to enter Australia to start his annual campaign. Watson claims politics are behind all of this, saying, "I'm not wanted on any warrants and I've never received a felony conviction."
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Idaho Man Illegally Shot At Wolf Pack From The Sky
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, wolf, idaho, aerial, shooting, endangered, extinction, suffering, killing, environment, wildlife, protection, humans, hunters, cruelty, death, science, politics, law, wilderness )

Tom
- 52 days ago - komonews.com
A shotgun-wielding motorized parachutist fired on a pack of wolves earlier this year from the eastern Idaho sky, forbidden even under a state permit that allows aerial gunning of foxes and coyotes. He claims he killed a wolf outfitted with a radio collar.
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Norway, Japan Prop Up Whaling Industry With Taxpayer Money, Report Finds
Animals  (tags: whales, protection, politics, endangered, animals, animalwelfare )

Cal
- 67 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The governments of Norway and Japan are using taxpayer money to subsidize their unprofitable whaling industries, according to a first-time analysis of the economics of whaling.
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Aussie Town Dumps Japan Sister City Over Dolphins
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, slaughter, world, ethics, politics, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cal
- 91 days ago - uk.news.yahoo.com
An Australian town with deep historical ties to Japan has severed its sister city relationship with a Japanese village to protest an annual dolphin slaughter, civic leaders said
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Wild Horse Sense
Animals  (tags: animals, wild, horses, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, environment, animalwelfare, habitat, animalrights, goodnews, contraception, wilderness, conservation, science, investigation, government, congress, politics )

Tom
- 120 days ago - latimes.com
Creating vast contained wildlife refuges with grassland for wild horses would make it easier to monitor the herds and administer birth control. Equine contraception may offer the best hope of humanely keeping the animals alive while protecting wilderness.
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Interview With Valmik Thapar-Tiger Conservationist - WSJ.Com
Animals  (tags: investigation, endangered, poaching, conservation, politics, habitat, environment, protection, crime )

Raffi
- 124 days ago - online.wsj.com
Valmik Thapar, wildlife conservationist and one of India's best-known tiger experts, was a member of the Tiger Task Force set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government in 2005 to probe the falling tiger population. But he dissented from the
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Threat Of Zoo Closure, Animal Euthanizations Triggers Political Stampede
Animals  (tags: politics, discussion, zoo animals, zoo closure, euthanisation )

Simone
- 132 days ago - wbur.org
A major brouhaha over zoos spilled over onto Beacon Hill Monday. Lawmakers scrambled to respond to claims from Zoo New England that a $4 million gubernatorial budget cut could force the shutdown of two local zoos. Worse, Zoo New England officials said
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Sign Petition: Save The Polar Bears!
Animals  (tags: animals, polar, bears, ice, melting, endangered, extinction, suffering, wildlife, sadness, environment, habitat, ecosystems, globalwarming, climatechange, conservation, nature, pollution, politics, humans, CO2emissions, climate, business, money, oil )

Tom
- 156 days ago - change.org
Polar bears are dying. As global warming accelerates, the sea ice they depend on for survival is literally melting away. Bears are starving and drowning as they have to swim farther and farther to reach solid ice. Some are even turning to cannibalism.
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Humane Society, ASPCA Condemn Schwarzenegger Plan to Shorten Animal Shelter Hold Requirements
Animals  (tags: animals, pets, dogs, cats, Schwarzenegger, california, budget, cuts, shelters, euthanization, killing, death, government, republicans, money, politics )

Tom
- 166 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
If a proposal from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is approved, strays in California's shelters could face euthanization in as few as three days, down from the six-day minimum hold generally applied in the state's shelters.
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Stop the Barbarity of the Bullring!
Animals  (tags: european parliament, politics, bull torture, evil sadistic bull fighting, ban animal rights, culture cruelty )

Simone
- 175 days ago - tribunemagazine.co.uk
THE possibility of the far-right British National Party making gains at the forthcoming elections to the European parliament on June 4 is being billed by some political and media commentators as the most important issue facing the British electorate.
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VIDEO: Rare Daytime Florida Panther Sighting
Animals  (tags: animals, florida, panther, endangered, species, habitat, environment, wildlife, protection, government, obama, salazar, politics )

Tom
- 178 days ago - winknews.com
Critically endangered, less than 100 of these unique cats exist in Southwest Florida, according to the FWC. Its population is threatened primarily by loss, degradation, and fragmentation of its habitat as a result of urban expansion.
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Sign Petition: Save Critical Habitat for the Florida Panther
Animals  (tags: animals, florida, panther, endangered, species, habitat, environment, wildlife, protection, government, obama, salazar, politics )

Tom
- 178 days ago - secure2.convio.net
The Florida Panther was declared an endangered species in 1967. The amendment which required each species listed to have 'designated critical habitat' didn't go into effect until 1978, so no critical habitat exists for this critically endangered big cat.
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