Animals
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Pygmy hippo Moo Deng celebrates first birthday with fruit cake – video
Moo Deng turns one! The Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand is holding four days of activities in celebration of M…
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Lion’s owners arrested after woman and children injured in attack in Pakistan
Footage shows animal leaping over wall in Lahore before attack that left victims with face and arm injuriesThe…
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Escaped pet lion attacks woman in Lahore – video
An escaped pet lion chased, attacked and injured a woman and two children in Pakistan’s second bigge…
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Bear roaming runway halts flights at Japanese airport
A dozen flights cancelled at Yamagata airport as attempts to chase furry trespasser away continueAuthorities a…
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Bear on runway halts flights at Japanese airport – video
A bear entered the runway area of Yamagata airport on Thursday, forcing a temporary shutdown and flight cancel…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, Conservation, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Environment, Mining, New Zealand, Wildlife, World news
Fast-track to where? The new law opening up New Zealand to a mining boom
Critics say the country’s unique biodiversity is at risk as the government plans to boost mineral exports to $…
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Myth or mystery: are moose roaming the isolated wilds of New Zealand?
Claims of a recent sighting of the animal in the vast Fiordland wilderness reignites public fascination in a s…
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Snake on a train line: Japan’s busiest bullet train route brought to a halt
Outage occurred between Maibara and Gifu-Hashima stations after the snake appeared to have climbed an electric…
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‘I’ve woken up with them on my face’: millipede infestation horrifies Wellington
Residents in the city’s south despair amid swarm of putrid-smelling arthropods that mate inside buildingAt a v…
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Sauntering on streets and grazing on lawns: what happens when rhinos move into town?
In one Nepali village, the resident rhinos are a conservation success story and attract thousands of visitors,…
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Once named world’s ugliest animal, blobfish wins New Zealand’s fish of the year
Made up of blobby tissue and living deep in the ocean, the distinctive species beat the longfin eel and pygmy …
- Animals, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Pakistan, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
Shot, poisoned and beaten to death: why leopard killings are soaring in Pakistan
A wave of incidents threatens the survival of the species in the country, say conservationistsInside the Pakis…
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‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka
Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering…
- Animals, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Fishing, India, Marine life, Oceans, South and Central Asia, Wildlife, World news
More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastline
The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols…
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Elephant in the womb? Thailand brings in birth control for pachyderms
Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humansThailand will begin giving bi…