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Animals News tagged with threat

Whale Forensics Highlights Japanese Threat to Species
Animals  (tags: animals, whales, Japan, threat, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, killing, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 35 days ago - all-creatures.org
A high proportion of the whale meat on sale in Japan comes from a population of north Pacific minke whales that some fear is under serious threat.
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Wrong Policy to Blame for Threat to Lions
Animals  (tags: animals, lions, threat, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 72 days ago - businessdailyafrica.com
The cause of the rapid decline of the country's lion population is conflict with people. They are a threat to people's lives and livelihoods, and locals retaliate by killing lions.
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Human Overpopulation Is the #1 Threat to Animals Worldwide
Animals  (tags: animals, humans, overpopulation, threat, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 98 days ago - animalrights.about.com
Human overpopulation is an animal rights issue as well as an environmental issue and a human rights issue. Human activities, including mining, transportation, pollution, agriculture, development, and logging, take habitat away from wild animals as well
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Stowaway Threat to New Zealand's Island Sanctuaries
Animals  (tags: animals, stowaways, threat, sanctuaries, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 130 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A mouse that stowed away on board a boat threatened to wipe out 2 years of restoration efforts when it landed on pest-free Rona Island in Lake Manapouri. Fortunately for the native species on Rona Island the Fiordland voyage was the last one taken by
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Hidden Cancer Threat to Wildlife Revealed
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, Cancer, threat, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals )

Cher
- 154 days ago - enn.com
Cancer poses a serious threat to wild animals. That is the message of two pathologists working for the Wildlife Conservation Society, in New York, who have for the first time listed all the animal species that are threatened by cancer.
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Climate Change Threat to Rare Black Grouse in Scotland
Animals  (tags: animals, birds, black grouse, Scotland, climate change, threat, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 221 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Changing climate patterns threaten the rare black grouse, with numbers believed to have fallen by 40% in two years in the Pennines. Consecutive cold, wet summers, the worst conditions in almost two decades, have set back recovery, with the number of male
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Donkeys of Unknown Origin Could Be Putting UK's Equines at Risk
Animals  (tags: donkeys, unknown origin, threat, UK, equines, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 246 days ago - drupal.thedonkeysanctuary.org.uk
The number of donkeys being rescued and imported from Europe into the UK is at an all-time high, and, according to the Devon-based Donkey Sanctuary, any that are of unknown origin may potentially carry exotic diseases - posing a real risk to the UK's
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Federal Report Highlights Threat to Hawaii Birds
Animals  (tags: birds, population in peril, Hawaii, threat, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 250 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Hawaii's native avian population is in peril, with nearly all the state's birds in danger of becoming extinct, a federal report says.
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'Threatening the Very Existence of Polar Bears'
Animals  (tags: polar bears, threat, animals, climate change, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 250 days ago - spiegel.de
The outlook for Polar Bears is bleak. Artic countries met for the first time in decades to mull the future of the white fluffy bears. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to Rasmus Hansson of the World Wildlife Fund about climate change and hunters.
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Fears for Ocean Life as Tanker Loses Toxic Load
Animals  (tags: australia, marine wildlife, whales, dolphins, tanker loses toxic load, threat, endangered, extinction, habitat, environment, humans, protection, suffering, sadness )

Jacquelin
- 260 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A ship carrying 60 containers of ammonium nitrate, used for making fertiliser and explosives, has lost an estimated 31 containers overboard and is leaking fuel in rough seas off Australia's northeast coast.Marine experts fear if the missing containers lea
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Snakes on the Move as Temperature Rises
Animals  (tags: perth, australia, wildlife, reptiles, snakes, warming weather, threat )

Jacquelin
- 399 days ago - news.com.au
THE arrival of warm weather has increased the snake threat in Perth, the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) warns. DEC received about 1500 snake reports last spring and summer. Wildlife officer for DEC Matthew Swan said snakes common
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Surface Water Poses Health Threat to Pets and Their Owners
Animals  (tags: health, threat, companion animals, infection, waters )

Catherine
- 516 days ago - county29.net
A small cut on a foot or a sip from a puddle can allow the disease leptospirosis to spread to pets and humans, warns a Purdue University veterinarian. Leptospirosis, which originates from a bacterial infection in animals, can infect both humans and animal
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New Threat to Our Way of Life: Giant Pythons
Animals  (tags: florida, everglades, wildanimals, wildlife, snakes, pythons, threat, habitat )

Jacquelin
- 562 days ago - sfgate.com
In addition to everything else to worry about, now comes the Burmese python. The giant snakes are slithering from Florida toward the Bay Area, very slowly to be sure, but inexorably. And they can strangle and eat an entire alligator. The U.S. Geolog
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Native Bird Threat a Myna Matter
Animals  (tags: australia, wildanimals, wildlife, birds, invasive species, attack, marsupials, sugergliders, native birds, threat )

Jacquelin
- 665 days ago - hawkesbury.yourguide.com.au
ITS chocolate-brown coat and startling yellow eye-patch is hard to ignore, but the Indian Myna is attracting attention in the Hawkesbury for another reason. Labelled as one of the World's Worst 100 Invasive Species by the World Conservation Union, the In
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DPI Fears Dangerous Fish Sabotage in NT Rivers
Animals  (tags: australia, sealife, fish, Environmental authorities are concerned , the African tilapia fish.pest species, invasive, threat )

Jacquelin
- 665 days ago - abc.net.au
Environmental authorities are concerned someone is deliberately sabotaging Top End river systems with a dangerous pest, the African tilapia fish. The fast-breeding exotic pest species can compete for food with and predate on native Australian fish, and
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