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Cane, You Hear Me Now
Animal-welfare group backs toad-killing in Australia |
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03 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:48 PM on 03 Apr 2008 Australian politician Shane Knuth has proposed a special "Toad Day Out" for residents of the state of Queensland to kill cane toads, a poisonous invasive species that Knuth calls "the greatest environmental vermin and probably the most disgusting creature known to man." The plan even has the backing of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals -- with ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, Australia, biodiversity, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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'Roo the Day
Australia military will kill hundreds of kangaroos |
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07 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:22 PM on 07 Mar 2008 Australia's military will cull up to 500 wild kangaroos on a military base in the capital city of Canberra after authorities determined Friday that it would be too costly to relocate them. Officials say overgrazing 'roos are endangering native grassland, a local lizard, and the threatened golden sun moth. A plan to shoot the animals was abandoned after police warned that stray bullets could strike n ... |
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| Topics: Australia, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Whale Played
Aussies release gruesome footage of Japanese whale hunt |
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08 Feb 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:30 PM on 08 Feb 2008 There's a new twist in the twisty tale of Japan's off-then-back-on-again whale hunt: the Australian government has released gut-wrenching footage of what it says is a mother and baby minke whale being harpooned and hauled aboard a Japanese ship. An unamused official at Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research denied that the large and small whales were a mother and calf, and warned that the Austr ... |
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| Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Mob Gnarly and the Whalers
Protesters converge on Japan's whaling fleet; Aussie court rules Japan hunt illegal |
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15 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:02 AM on 15 Jan 2008 It's been high drama on the high seas the past few days as the unpopular Japanese whaling fleet has been at the heart of legal action and a target of direct-action protest. Earlier this week, Greenpeace successfully tracked down Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and has been chasing them around, disrupting the hunt. Today, a federal court in Aus ... |
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| Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Bat an Ai-yi-yi
Heat waves take a toll on Australian fruit bats |
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28 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 5:51 PM on 28 Nov 2007 Climate change has, ahem, taken a swing at bats. Unable to deal with scorching heat waves, thousands of Australian fruit bats have flapped their wings, panted, drooled -- then dropped dead. Which begs the question: Do bat researchers spend a lot of time yelling, "Quick -- to the bat cave!" We really, really hope so. sources: Agence France-Presse, The Telegraph Fr ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Hope There's a High Ceiling for the Kangaroos
Australia to build 1,740-mile corridor for wildlife affected by climate change |
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09 Jul 2007 |
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| Hope There's a High Ceiling for the Kangaroos Australia to build 1,740-mile corridor for wildlife affected by climate change State and federal leaders in Australia have agreed to create a 1,740-mile wildlife corridor spanning the east coast of the continent -- in part to allow plants and animals to flee the effects of global warming. "The effects of climate change will likely be less sev ... |
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| Topics: Australia, climate, climate change adaptation, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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