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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- Spain: Catalonia votes to ban bullfighting
- 28 July 2010
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Campaigners celebrate as Spain's most emblematic sport is banned by Catalan parliament.
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- The FAO is testing a toolkit aimed at reducing human-wildlife conflict
- 23 July 2010
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FAO's Human-Wildlife Conflict mitigation toolkit thus largely focuses on problem-solving in Africa. It is designed not only to help protect people, their livestock and their crops from animals but...
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- Russia: Investigation launched into paragliding donkey stunt
- 20 July 2010
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Russian police have opened a criminal investigation into a group of entrepreneurs who tied a donkey to a parachute before sending the animal on a bizarre flight high above a popular Russian holiday...
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- Africa's game parks rapidly losing animals, study finds
- 14 July 2010
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Africa's game parks have lost well over half of their big mammals, such as the lions and buffalos that draw millions of tourists each year, to rampant hunting and farming since 1970, a study has found...
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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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