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Animals News tagged with tragedy

Bushfire Turns Steve Irwin Land Into 'Animal Graveyard'
Animals  (tags: controversy, terri irwin, crocodilehunter, bushfire, imperiled animals, perished, tragedy )

Simone
- 4 days ago - news.com.au
TERRI Irwin has been criticised over a bushfire at "Steve's Place" - the land where the Crocodile Hunter is believed to have been buried. Neighbouring land owners of the far north Queensland Cape York wilderness, named the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve,
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Hundreds of Migrating Reindeer Drown as Arctic Ice Collapses Beneath Them
Animals  (tags: tragedy, arctic ice melting, hundreds of migrating reindeer drown )

Simone
- 4 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Hundreds of reindeer on their annual migration across a frozen lake above Sweden's Arctic Circle have drowned as ice collapsed beneath them. The herd of around 3,000 reindeer were being moved by their Sami herders from the western shore of the frozen
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Poachers Kill 65 Elephants, 30 Rhinos in Zimbabwe: Official
Animals  (tags: elephants massacred, ivory trade, international crime sydnicate, poachers, wildlife, tragedy )

Simone
- 4 days ago - google.com
An international crime syndicate is behind an escalation in poaching in Zimbabwe which has slaughtered 65 elephants and 30 rhinos this year, a wildlife official said Monday. "From January to October this year we have lost 65 elephants through poaching
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Hunters Become the Hunted
Animals  (tags: wildife, wild animals, conflicts, humans, leopards, killed, slaughtered, tragedy, endangered, fighting for their lives )

Simone
- 5 days ago - dawn.com
Leopards may be the kings in jungles but these elusive and solitary hunters in our northern mountains might be reduced to fighting for their lives. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), seven to eight leopards on average were becoming reported
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Reward for Grizzly 'Maximus' Poacher Raised to More Than $11,000
Animals  (tags: investigation, maximus, huge grizzly bear, gunned down, killed, trophy hunters, reward to find poachers, tragedy, beautiful wild bear )

Simone
- 10 days ago - missoulian.com
Maximus was a trophy, a behemoth bear towering 7 1/2 feet and tipping the scales at more than 800 pounds. He wasn't a troublemaker, wasn't killing cattle or raiding cabins. He was, in the words of the local bear biologist, just "a big, beautiful, wild
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Conservationists File Suit Against Federal Agencies to End Bison Slaughter
Animals  (tags: yellowstone park, american icon, bisons, slaughtered, tragedy, federal agencies, lawsuit, protection )

Simone
- 11 days ago - commondreams.org
A coalition of conservation groups, Native Americans, and Montanans are suing the National Park Service for their role in slaughtering 3,300 wild American bison that inhabit Yellowstone National Park. Approximately 3,000 bison remain in Yellowstone
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Fewer Than 50,000 Koalas Feared Left
Animals  (tags: tragedy, australian native wild animals, koalas, disappearing, threatened, endangered, wildlife )

Simone
- 11 days ago - theage.com.au
THERE could be fewer than 50,000 koalas left in the wild, according to an estimate released to pressure the Federal Government into listing the animal as a threatened species. Australian Koala Foundation scientists estimate that the koala population
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Alarming Rise in Leopard Killing in Uttarakhand
Animals  (tags: tragedy, wild animals, humans, conflicts, leopards, killed, villagers )

Simone
- 11 days ago - dailypioneer.com
Two more big cats killed in 10 days; this year's toll crosses 40 Rising man-animal conflicts in Uttarakhand have resulted in two more leopard killings in Rudraprayag forest division. The second death took place on Saturday night while the first was
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Nepal Emerges as 'Poacher's Paradise'
Animals  (tags: nepal, wildlife, butchered, slaughtered, poachers, poaching, black market trade, tragedy )

Simone
- 13 days ago - google.com
Forest warden Narendra Man Babu Pradhan is on the frontline of Nepal's battle against poachers and he grimaces as he recalls the recent discovery of an injured rhino whose horn had been cut off. "We found a male rhino with bullet in his head around a
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Environmentalists Raise Alarm Over Russia's Siberian Tiger
Animals  (tags: russias, siberian tigers, hunted, poached, endangered, reporrts, environmentalists, tragedy, disappearing )

Simone
- 13 days ago - speroforum.com
In October, the carcass of a young Siberian tiger was found in Russia's Far East with two bullet holes in its skull. Experts say the animal was most probably shot by hunters in pursuit of illegal prey. The finding came ahead of the release of a
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Do Wolves Kill for Sport?
Animals  (tags: wolves, survival, endangered, massacred, tragedy, wildife )

Simone
- 13 days ago - slate.com
During this fall's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Montana, hunters killed the matriarch of a Yellowstone wolf pack that researchers had been studying for more than a decade. Park officials suspect that her mate and three other pack members were also
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About 50 Wolves Killed in Montana Hunt So Far
Animals  (tags: wolves, massacred, montana, wolf killers, slaugher, tragedy, humans, cruelty )

Simone
- 13 days ago - flatheadbeacon.com
About 50 wolves have been taken so far in Montana's wolf hunting season. Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says the state may reach its quota of 75 by the time the season ends Nov. 29. This year's gray wolf hunt,
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ACTION ALERT: A SEAL"S STORY- HELP! TELL THIS STORY TO THE WORLD!!!!
Animals  (tags: harp seals, tragedy, short lives, killed, canadian seal massacre, slaughter, worldwide attention )

Simone
- 22 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
I was born on the ice floes off the east coast of Canada, where the pristine snow-scape stretches out as far as the eye can see. For the first few days, my fluffy coat was as white as the surrounding snow...then after a couple of weeks, it began to turn
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Death of a Wolf Raises Questions About Research
Animals  (tags: deathof wolf, apha wolf, radio collared, controversy, tragedy )

Simone
- 23 days ago - minnpost.com
In life, 527F was reclusive -- even for an alpha-female wolf. Her territory was so remote that researchers studying wolves in Yellowstone National Park rarely saw her. But they knew a lot about her because for five years she wore a radio collar disclosing
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Yellowstone Wolves Fall in Rifle Sights
Animals  (tags: black wolf slaughtered, yellowstone wolves, tragedy, destruction )

Simone
- 25 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
She was a tough, wary wolf. A genius at tactics. Cruel when she had to be, and when you're a wolf, that's pretty often. Wolf 527, a huge, black female, was the alpha female of Yellowstone National Park's Cottonwood pack, until she died earlier this month
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