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Pack of stray dogs kills 13 animals in Bulgarian zoo (Reuters)

January 30th, 2010 Administrator No comments

Reuters – A pack of stray dogs leapt the fence of Sofia’s zoo and killed 13 rare animals last week, the zoo director said on Saturday.

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Coast Guard flies 2 turtles from Oregon to Calif. (AP)

January 29th, 2010 Administrator No comments

AP – Two rare sea turtles stranded last fall on separate beaches in the Northwest took flight Thursday on a Coast Guard airplane bound for San Diego.

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13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers (AP)

January 29th, 2010 Administrator No comments

In this photo taken Jan. 20, 2010, two adult male tigers look on at Wat Pa Luangta Bua Yannasampanno Forest Monastery in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. The monastery and its Buddhist Monks dedicated to what has become a wildlife sanctuary for tigers. Estimates for the number of tigers in the wild has fallen in the past decade to somewhere between 3,600 to 3,200 according to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society. Many of the tigers at the Thai temple are the cubs of parent tigers that have been killed in the wild. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP – A dozen Asian nations and Russia vowed Friday to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, crack down on poaching that has devastated the big cats and prohibit the building of roads and bridges that could harm their habitats.


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Endangered animals get new lease of life in Singapore (AFP)

January 29th, 2010 Administrator No comments

Three little cotton-top tamarinds are being fed by a caretaker at the zoological garden in Singapore. With a breeding programme for 315 species, around one in six of which are threatened, the Singapore Zoo is seeing a steady stream of locally born additions to its collection, currently numbering more than 2,500 animals.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP – Sporting spiked hair and silver earrings, Samuel Tay hardly looks like a typical midwife.


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Washington panda cub to be shipped via FedEx to China (AFP)

January 28th, 2010 Administrator No comments

Tai Shan checks out his 4th birthday AFP – US-born panda cub Tai Shan will next week leave the National Zoo in Washington and head in grand style for a new life in China — on board a Federal Express cargo plane, according to officials.


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