News
The list below shows news from around the world regarding animals and animal welfare. Click on the links to read the full article.
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- Amazon river dolphins being slaughtered for bait
- 10 July 2010
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Their carcasses are showing up in record numbers on riverbanks, their flesh torn away for fishing bait, causing researchers to warn of a growing threat to a species that has already disappeared in...
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- Turkish authorities plan to round up and destroy 'dangerous' dog breeds
- 08 July 2010
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The Interior Ministry sent letters to governors’ offices on June 7 instructing them to collect dogs that are banned to raise and own, to fine their owners, to ban the sale of these animals online and...
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- Two people gored in Pamplona bull run
- 08 July 2010
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Two people have been gored and at least four more injured in falls in the second running of the bulls at Spain's famed San Fermin fiesta.
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- Two headed calf born in Egypt
- 06 July 2010
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A cow has given birth to a two-headed calf in Egypt, prompting the farmer to describe the birth as a 'divine miracle'.
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- Spain's economic crisis puts squeeze on bullfights
- 05 July 2010
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Across Spain, the number of bullfights has dropped from about 1,000 in 2008 to a projected 800 or less this year, as local governments that have always subsidised small-town bullfights cut budgets...
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- Plan to move endangered sea turtle eggs away from oil spill
- 02 July 2010
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U.S. wildlife experts are preparing to collect tens of thousands of endangered sea turtle eggs and move them hundreds of miles away in an unprecedented bid to protect them from the BP Plc oil spill in...
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- Environmental groups seek to halt BP oil burnings to save turtles
- 02 July 2010
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Environmental groups have filed suit against BP Plc seeking to halt controlled burnings of spilled oil on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico because they say endangered sea turtles are being burned...
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- Seal cull begins in Namibia
- 01 July 2010
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Dozens of club wielding sealers will start with what has been dubbed “the bloodiest, most savage seal hunt” in the world.
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- Highway threatens Serengeti National Park
- 01 July 2010
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It’s being described as the greatest threat in the Serengeti's history — a commercial highway in the direct path of ancient wildlife migration routes.
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- Bid to introduce commercial whaling quotas fails
- 28 June 2010
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International efforts to agree a new deal on whaling have collapsed, leaving in place the rules that allow whalers to kill around 1500 whales a year for so-called "scientific purposes".
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