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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- Congo: UN helicopters fly baby gorillas to safety
- 28 May 2010
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United Nations peacekeepers in Congo have used helicopters to airlift endangered baby gorillas to a sanctuary after they were rescued in a conflict zone where they faced being captured or eaten.
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- India: Majority of captive elephants suffer bad feet, study finds
- 25 May 2010
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Scientists working with temple elephants reported that foot problems constitute the single most important ailment among the pachyderm with more than half of them which were studied found to be...
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- Federal officials track Gulf oil spill effect on wildlife
- 22 May 2010
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Federal officials say they have found a handful of animals injured by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but countless others may be feeling the effects.
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- Matador gored through throat in Madrid bullfight
- 22 May 2010
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Spanish matador Julio Aparicio needed two operations after he was horrifically gored through the throat during a bullfight in Madrid.
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- Spain shows off its first cloned fighting bull
- 20 May 2010
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Got, the country's first cloned fighting bull, was born this week, weighing in at 25kg, in the northern province of Palencia.
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- Latin America anti-whaling countries meet ahead of IWC event
- 19 May 2010
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Latin American countries opposed to whaling began a three-day meeting here Tuesday to hammer out a common position ahead of the next International Whaling Commission meeting in June.
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- Nestle to stop using products from rainforest destruction
- 17 May 2010
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Nestlé, the world’s biggest food and drinks company, announced today that it will stop using products that come from rainforest destruction. The move follows a two month Greenpeace campaign that...
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- Probing the link between slaughterhouses and violent crime
- 14 May 2010
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Criminology professor Amy Fitzgerald says statistics show the link between slaughterhouses and brutal crime is empirical fact.
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- Animal shelters overrun with guinea pigs after G-Force film
- 14 May 2010
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Animal rescue centres inundated with unwanted guinea pigs are blaming Disney movie G-Force for the spate of dumped rodents.
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- Conservationists protest as Robert Mugabe sends 'ark' of animals to North Korea
- 13 May 2010
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Zimbabwean president sending giraffes, zebras, baby elephants and other wild animals taken from a national park to zoo in communist state, conservation groups say.
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