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| Jul. 14 |
 Basque |
5 hurt during Pamplona bull run finale  Map of Pamplona Spain| A 31-year-old British man suffered a collar bone injury, the 21-year-old Danish man was hurt in the neck and three Spanish men also went to hospital | | |
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| Jun.11 |
 Kenya |
Alarm raised for Amboseli lions| Conservationists raised the alarm that lions in the National Park face extinction within a few years unless action is taken to help them | |
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 Hong Kong |
 Bird flu find prompts mass slaughter Hong Kong officials plan to slaughter all live poultry in the territory's street markets after detecting the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus
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| Jun.6 |
 Mexico |
Mexico to track sharks after fatal attacks Transmitters will be attached to sharks off the Pacific coast so scientists can monitor their behavior after 3 surfers were attacked
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| May.29 |
 India |
Wild elephant kills 7 in village Map of Jim Corbett National Park India An elephant rampaged through a village in northern India, killing at least seven people and injuring 24 others before it was killed
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| May.22 |
 Global |
Sharks swim closer to extinction IUCN: More than half of the world's ocean-going sharks are at risk of extinction
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| Apr.29 |
India |
Asian vultures could extinct in 10 years Asian vultures could be extinct in the wild within 10 years unless a livestock drug blamed for their demise is eliminated
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| Mar.19 |
 Congo |
Ranger held over gorilla killings A senior wildlife park officia has been arrested amid claims that he organised the killing of rare mountain gorillas
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| Feb.25 |
 South Africa |
S Africa to allow elephant cull The government will allow elephants to be culled for the first time in 13 years. It's to control elephant numbers
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| Dec.25 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
 Tiger escapes and killed visitor  | 2 others injured after a tiger escaped from its cage. All victims were visitors. The tiger, that escaped from its pen, was shot dead during the rampage. The incident occurred in a café as the zoo was closing. The zoo was evacuated and armed poli... | |
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| Dec.7 |
Kenya |
Kenya battles swarms of locusts Swarms of locusts have damaged crops. It is the first time such large numbers have been seen in Kenya for 45 years
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Jetliner with 56 people on board crashed
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| Nov.17 |
 Japan |
Japanese whalers hunt humpbacks A whaling fleet has set sail aiming to harpoon humpback whales for the first time in decades
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| Oct.25 |
Global |
Third of primates 'under threat' The report by conservation groups: Almost 1/3 of the world's primates are in danger of extinction because of destruction of their habitats
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| Oct.13 |
North East India |
Elephant rampage frightens villagers About 100 wild elephants have converged on a river island, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents
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| Oct.7 |
Congo |
Rebels seize rare gorilla habitat
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| Sep.9 |
Congo |
Fighting threatens gorillas
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| Aug.20 |
Australia |
Woman killed by pet camel
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| Aug.7 |
China |
Rare river dolphin 'now extinct'
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| Jul.27 |
Congo |
U.N. to probe gorilla deaths The shooting deaths of 4 mountain gorillas, 3 females and an alpha male silverback, are prompting a U.N. agency to send a mission
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| Jul.7 |
Basque |
7 hurt at Running of the Bulls
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G8 leaders 'agree climate deal'
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| May.22 |
Central Africa |
Elephants at risk from gangs, eBay
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Deal struck at UN climate talks
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| Feb.3 |
 England |
Bird flu virus is Asian strain | The avian flu which killed 2,600 turkeys at a farm has been confirmed as the highly pathogenic H5N1. Vets working to ... | |
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| Jan.29 |
New York |
Barbaro is put down after surgery
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| Jan.16 |
Northern Italy |
High ski runs fuel habitat fears
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| Dec.27 |
New York |
New Yorkers given rabies warning
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Washington |
US accepts threat to polar bears
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| Sep.26 |
Mexico |
Locust plague encircles Cancun resort
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| Sep.5 |
Australia |
Tape 'shows Irwin's last moments'
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| Sep.4 |
 Australia |
'Croc Hunter' died in stingray attack Steve Irwin enthralled audiences around the world with his wildlife adventures
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Irwin was regarded by Australians as a national treasure
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| Aug.24 |
Ecuador |
Galapagos 'face species threat'
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| Jul.31 |
China |
Dog cull to fight rabies
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| Jun.19 |
Brazil |
Shark kills surfer
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| Jun.18 |
Caribbean |
Resolution passes to resume whaling A slim majority of nations voted in support of a resumption of commercial whaling. Japan gains key whaling victory
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| Jun.17 |
Japan |
Japan to table whaling 'roadmap' It's a day two of the International Whaling Commission annual meeting
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| Feb.21 |
India |
Chicken slaughter expanded Officials widening to 6.2 miles the radius of the zone in which all poultry is being killed to stop the spread of H5N1
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| Feb.19 |
India |
India carries out huge bird cull Health officials are engaged in a cull of half a million birds, after finding the country's first cases of the H5N1 strain
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| Feb.9 |
 Nigeria |
Nigeria plans huge bird flu cull A large-scale cull is being planned at a farm where thousands of chickens have died from bird flu
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| Nov.6 |
 Northern China |
Six million birds culled Farmers in Liaoning province had co-operated with slaughter, and would be compensated
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| Apr.1 |
North Korea |
N. Korea works to contain bird flu
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Russia 'to ratify climate treaty'
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| Feb.19 |
Thailand |
Cats, leopard die from bird flu
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| Dec.21 |
South Korea |
Bird flu spreading
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| Jan.26 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Woman dies after dog attack
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