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| Australia 'disappointed' at Japan whaling mission
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 AFP - Australia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt.
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| Bardot urges end to animal sacrifice in Nepal
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 AFP - The legendary French movie star turned animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot has written to Nepal's president urging him to stop a mass animal sacrifice from going ahead next week.
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| Sushi Often Not What You Think
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 LiveScience.com - That tuna in your sushi might be an endangered species, a new study finds.
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| Judge keeps Yellowstone grizzly on threatened list
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| AP - A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling. |
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| Japan whale fleet leave for Antarctic: Greenpeace
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 AFP - Japanese whaling ships left port Thursday for Antarctic waters for their annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists.
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| Austria says 'so long' to Fu Long the panda
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 AP - A 2-year-old panda who charmed his way into the hearts of Austrians is headed to China.
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| Bears get satellite collars in Indian Kashmir
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 AFP - Wildlife experts in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fitted black bears with satellite-tracking collars to study their behaviour and help conserve the endangered animals, officials said Wednesday.
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| Consumer campaigns don't save endangered fish: report
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 AFP - Consumer campaigns to protect threatened fish species have failed, researchers warned Tuesday in a report underscoring the need for alternative ways to save threatened marine species.
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| San Diego Zoo panda cub gets name "Son of Cloud"
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 AP - Out of 6,300 suggestions, San Diego Zoo managers have chosen a name for a baby panda born this summer.
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| Baghdad's once ravaged zoo comes back to life
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 Reuters - More than six years after the U.S. invasion left Iraq's main zoo a wasteland of starving animals and deserted cages, the park in central Baghdad is enjoying a vigorous revival and needs to grow.
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| Environmentalists alarmed by Puerto Rico policies
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 AP - Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals.
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| 'Let them eat vegetables', Bardot tells EU
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 AFP - Brigitte Bardot, one-time French screen goddess turned animal rights activist, wants the European Union to institute a "Vegetarian Day" as part of the battle against global warming.
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| Feds to check animal abuse claims at Utah labs
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| AP - Federal officials say they'll look into complaints by the animal rights group PETA about the treatment of animals at University of Utah research facilities. |
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| Crikey steveirwini! Snail honour for late Aussie star
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 AFP - An Australian scientist has paid an unusual tribute to late conservation star Steve Irwin by naming a rare species of snail "crikey steveirwini".
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| Groups sue to make rare flying squirrel endangered
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| AP - Environmental groups are suing the federal government to return a type of flying squirrel to the endangered species list. |
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| Vienna zoo's panda Fu Long heads for China
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 AFP - Fu Long the panda, Europe's first to be conceived naturally while in captivity, is to leave his home town of Vienna for China next week, the Schoenbrunn Zoo in the Austrian capital said Thursday.
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| Major Asian cities face climate disaster: WWF
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 AFP - Low-lying and impoverished Asian coastal cities such as Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are vulnerable to "brutal" damage from climate change without global action, environmental group WWF warned Thursday.
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| US takes brown pelican off endangered species list
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 AFP - Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican was Wednesday taken off the endangered species list, US officials said.
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| Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer
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 AP - Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction.
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| China's Hu arrives in Singapore with panda offer
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| Reuters - China will give Singapore two giant pandas to mark 20 years of friendly ties between the two countries, Chinese President Hu Jintao said Wednesday. |
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