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Feds: Status of pika will still need watching

AP News 4 days ago

Feds: Even though they get no protections, West's pikas still bear watching as climate warms The American pika isn't heading for the endangered species list, but federal scientists said there's no question it bears watching as the West warms in the coming ...

US-born pandas reach new home in China

AP News 4 days ago

US-born pandas reach new home in China, bringing warm and fuzzy to currently edgy ties Two American-born pandas arrived in their new China home Friday, bringing a welcome dose of cuddly to the countries' currently strained relations. Special crates carrying Mei Lan, ...

U.N. agency backs bluefin tuna ban, vote due in March

Reuters Environmental Online Report 4 days ago

GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations scientific agency backed on Friday a proposal to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, saying the species prized by sushi lovers needed to recover from commercial overfishing. Monaco had proposed protecting bluefin tuna, which can ...

FRANCE BLUEFIN TUNA

AP News 4 days ago

A joint of Bluefin Tuna, which was caught off Thailand, is seen on a stall at a Nice market, southeastern France, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. French authorities favor a ban on the export of Bluefin Tuna, but want an 18-month delay before ...

Alaska OKs some exotic cats; bars chimps, sloths

AP News 5 days ago

Alaska rules on pets: chimps and kinkajous out, but some hybrid cats in Alaska is famous for wildlife: moose, bear, whales. Not capuchin monkeys and kinkajous. And the Alaska Board of Game wants it to stay that way. The board considers exotic ...

Feds Seize Rodent-Infested Food at Wisconsin Warehouse

consumeraffairs.com 5 days ago

Food products intended for both human and animal consumption Federal marshals, acting at the request of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have seized a wide range of human and animal food products stored under insanitary conditions at Mid-States Closeouts, a distribution ...

Pandas Depart

AP News 5 days ago

Panda keeper Laurie Thomspon, touches the nose of giant panda Tai Shan while saying goodbye just before he leaves the National Zoo for China in Washington, on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool) Copyright 2010 AP News

APTOPIX Pandas Depart

AP News 5 days ago

Nicole Meese sits with and feeds giant panda Tai Shan of Washington after being loaded onto a cargo plane to be shipped back to China, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Copyright 2010 AP ...

3 cheetahs swim moat, briefly escape in NZealand

AP News 5 days ago

3 cheetahs swim moat to escape New Zealand park enclosure, but cause no harm before recapture Three cheetahs swam a moat and crawled through a hole in a rusty fence to escape their enclosure and then briefly roamed inside a wildlife park ...

Indonesia Buffalo Ban

AP News 6 days ago

In this Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 photo, an Indonesian protester leads a water buffalo during an anti government protest in Jakarta, Indonesia. Enraged by protesters likening him to a "big and stupid" water buffalo, Indonesia's president ordered the beasts banned at rallies, ...

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