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World News tagged with endangered

Southern Africa: Food Insecurity Looms As Floods Swallow Crops
World  (tags: world, africa, food, crops, nature, floods, rain, environment, climate, humans, suffering, endangered )

Tom
- 230 days ago - allafrica.com
Johannesburg -- As the water level in the upper Zambezi River continues to climb past its highest levels ever, destroying crops and road networks, disaster officials in Namibia and Zambia have warned that food security could worsen.
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The Man-Eater: Sumatran Tigers Critically Endangered
World  (tags: world, animals, tigers, endangered, extinction, environment, protection, wildlife, government )

Tom
- 250 days ago - news.scotsman.com
INDONESIA'S tiger catchers have to protect humans from tigers and protect tigers from humans. The elite teams of rangers and conservationists rush to the scene every time villagers report attacks or sightings of critically endangered Sumatran tigers.
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Police Chasing Traders of Endangered Species
World  (tags: world, Jakarta, poaching, sun bears, tiger pelt, police, traders, Endangered Species, animals, wildlife, endangered, protection, extinction, politics, government )

Tom
- 250 days ago - old.thejakartapost.com
The National Police have deployed their rapid reaction brigade (SPORC) to hunt down members of syndicates involved in the trade and collection of endangered species in the country, following the arrests in Jakarta last week of five such traders.
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Obama Overrides Bush Rule on Endangered Species Act
World  (tags: world, obama, animals, wildlife, endangered, protection, environment, habitat, extinction, politics )

Tom
- 250 days ago - latimes.com
President Obama overrode the Bush administration on applying the Endangered Species Act, restoring a requirement that federal agencies consult with experts before launching construction projects that could affect the well-being of threatened species.
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Tigers Killing Illegal Loggers, But Losing Battle for Survival
World  (tags: world, loggers, Indonesia, humans, crime, animals, tigers, habitat, endangered, extinction )

Tom
- 256 days ago - livenews.com.au
Sumatra's few remaining tigers may be trying to send mankind a message. The critically-endangered big cats killed six people this month. Most were illegal loggers, plying their trade in protected national parks in Indonesia's Jambi province.
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80% of Wars Between 1950-2000 Took Place in Biodiversity Hotspots
World  (tags: world, war, animals, biodiversity, conflict, humans, culture, wildlife, extinction, endangered, ecosystems, environment, nature, habitat, violence )

Tom
- 258 days ago - news.mongabay.com
The richest storehouses of life on Earth are also regions of the most human conflict. Essential for both biodiversity conservation and human well-being, millions of poor people live in these hot spots and depend on healthy ecosystems for their survival.
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Ban Marks 2009 UN Year Of Climate Change
World  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, endangered, environment, globalwarming, government, greenhousegases, humans, nature, politics, protection, science, research, world, weather, GoodNews, United Nations )

SirRobert
- 312 days ago - joongangdaily.joins.com
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stresses that this is the UN Year of Climate Change, and is urging Seoul, South Korea to live up to its growing status in the international community.
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IPCC Scientists: Climate Change Is 'Unequivocal'
World  (tags: climate-change, climate, CO2emissions, destruction, conservation, endangered, environment, globalwarming, humans, nature, oceans, politics, weather, world, research, science, scientists, society, study, tech, news, IPCC, u.s., usa, europe )

SirRobert
- 333 days ago - cnn.com
Scientists studying the changing nature of Earth's climate say they have completed one crucial task - proving beyond doubt that global warming is real. Now they have to figure out what to do about it.
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Thirsty World: The Desperate Quest For Water
World  (tags: climate-change, conservation, government, habitat, humans, nature, protection, science, research, suffering, world, endangered, water crisis, planet in peril )

SirRobert
- 385 days ago - cnn.com
Planet in Peril: Billions of human beings around the globe each day are in a desperate search for fresh clean drinking water. What we take for granted becomes more valuable than gold to them, but these circumstances are beginning to change and spread!
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Rescued Baby Gorilla Fuels Campaign to Save a Species
World  (tags: animals, endangered, environment, forests, GoodNews, habitatdestruction, politics, nature, wildlife, world, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, conservation, endangered, extinction, GoodNews, killed, killing, protection, slaughter )

Susan
- 407 days ago - africa.reuters.com
Miza, feared dead as her mother was among the gorillas killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, home to 380 of the world's 720 mountain gorillas.Miza was rescued by her father, silverback gorilla Kabirizi, and brought back ...
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Protests as 400 Kangaroos Face Slaughter
World  (tags: endangered, nature, AnimalCruelty, habitat, killing )

Ruth
- 604 days ago - edition.cnn.com
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Protesters gathered at an abandoned military site in the Australian capital Saturday to prevent the planned slaughter of 400 kangaroos blamed for ruining the habitat of rare lizards and insects.
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Kruger Park Cull Put on Hold to Win Consensus
World  (tags: world, africa, society, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, slaughter, wildlife, endangered, elephants slaughtered )

Michael
- 618 days ago - int.iol.co.za
Scientists and managers at SANP have pushed for the delay to allow a re-examination of the large body of research data at their disposal and to consult more widely on the extent to which South Africa's burgeoning elephant population should be managed. The
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South Africa to Sanction Killing of Elephants
World  (tags: animalrights, animals, protection, wildlife, sadness, killing, endangered, bizarre )

Ruth
- 622 days ago - edition.cnn.com
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists.
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From Sanctuary to War Zone: Rangers, Gorillas Threatened in Congo's Turbulent Heart
World  (tags: Rangers, Congo, mountain gorillas, sanctuary, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, suffering, killed, animals, AnimalCruelty, cruelty, crime, death, AnimalWelfare, sadness, environment, endangered, war )

TW
- 666 days ago - signonsandiego.com
Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.
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Rare Albino Alligators Stolen in Brazil
World  (tags: Albino, Alligators, Brazil, South America, wildlife, suffering, protection, sadness, investigation, humans, endangered, cruelty, animals, animalrights )

Joe
- 670 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
"Seven rare albino alligators recently disappeared from a Brazilian university zoo, and authorities suspect animal smugglers stole them." (First sentence of article).
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