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Post by Berserka on Aug 13, 2007 11:09:20 GMT
A Magellanic penguin whose natural habitat is the cool climes of southern Chile has strayed thousands of miles from his home, arriving in Peru. Read more: CLICK
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Post by Berserka on Aug 13, 2007 11:07:55 GMT
Franska, a Slovenian bear introduced into the French Pyrenees last year in a conservation scheme that infuriated local farmers, has died in a car accident. The female bear was killed near Lourdes yesterday in a dawn collision with a car on a mountain road. Read more: CLICK
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Post by Berserka on May 30, 2007 9:30:59 GMT
Reward offered for return of rare birds Wednesday May 30 19:00 AEST By Denham Hitchcock National Nine NewsThieves who stole 34 rare birds from a man on the NSW south coast were likely to have been rival collectors. The thieves broke into Errol Wilson's Nowra property on Saturday night, targeting only rare and expensive birds carefully bred for their vivid colours and genetics. Mr Wilson has since offered an $80,000 reward for their return. He has put 53 years worth of painstaking work into the collection and is devastated by the loss. "I've still got the shakes a bit, even now my voice is still not strong," he said. Mr Wilson describes all the stolen birds as family members, but he does have a favourite — the princess parrot, bought just six weeks ago for $22,000. The cinnamon species Princess Parrot was the pride of his collection and its loss prompted him to offer the reward for the return of the parrots. "The birds mean more to me than the money," he said. The 65-year-old said he was simply too old to start again, and was willing to lose his life savings to get his parrots back. "I think what (they've) done is not the true Aussie spirit and I want them back," he said. ninemsn.com.au/img/news/3005_parrot_nh_9.jpg
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Post by Berserka on May 18, 2007 11:20:38 GMT
All they need to find him is a bull horn. Walk the streets saying Manchester United! That'd get the whereabouts!
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Post by Berserka on Apr 17, 2007 12:04:51 GMT
The palm oil trade is wiping out one of man's closest relatives, as plantation owners pay a $10 bounty for every ape trapped or beaten to death. David Smith asks if it's too late to save them. Read More: CLICK
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Post by Berserka on Apr 17, 2007 10:23:57 GMT
The padlocked freezer at Xiongsen Bear and Tiger Mountain Village attracts little attention from the tourists who throng to the park each day. Most are more interested in the bloody spectacle of tigers savaging live cows, the monkey bicycle race or the highwire displays by bears and goats. But it is the freezer rather than the freak shows that will soon be at the centre of a fierce international debate on the trade in endangered species. Read more: CLICK
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Post by Berserka on Apr 17, 2007 10:07:59 GMT
After a century in which its numbers have dwindled to the point of extinction, the Amur tiger, the largest cat in the world, has made an improbable recovery. According to WWF, the tiger's population is at its highest level for 100 years. Read more: CLICK
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 10:07:40 GMT
An ornithological dispute over the fate of a woodpecker thought to be extinct has been solved after experts produced recordings of its distinctive drumming sounds. The ivory-billed woodpecker was said to be extinct for some 60 years, until US biologists claimed to have rediscovered it in April and captured it on film. Other experts said the brief, blurry video clip was inconclusive, prompting the original team to comb through 17,000 hours of audio tapes. Click
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 9:55:47 GMT
Campaigners in Austria have taken to court the case of Hiasl, a 26-year-old chimpanzee. If he is granted human status - and the rights that go with it - it will signal a victory for other primate species and unleash a wave of similar cases. Click
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 9:46:17 GMT
BANGKOK, Thailand - After panda porn failed to spark amour, Thai zoo authorities turned Monday to artificial insemination in the hope of impregnating their lone female giant panda. Click
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 9:34:41 GMT
JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia's critically endangered Sumatran rabbit has been spotted for only the fourth time since 1972. Click
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 9:31:51 GMT
AVALON, Calif. - Two bald eagles have hatched in the wild on Santa Catalina Island for the first time since chemical contamination there wiped out the majestic birds decades ago, conservation officials said. Click
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 9:29:36 GMT
HANOI (AFP) - Three private tiger farms in southern Vietnam will be allowed to keep 43 of the endangered animals, the government said Friday, handing the breeders a victory over environmental groups. Click
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 9:26:22 GMT
MIAMI - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service might reclassify the manatee as threatened instead of endangered, a move suggesting the marine mammal has rebounded from the brink of extinction Click
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Post by Berserka on Apr 10, 2007 9:19:38 GMT
A black swan feeds carps at Shenzhen Wildlife Park in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, April 7, 2007. The waterbird and the fish formed the unusual binding after living together for three years. Click
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