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Really Rare Rhinos Found by Dung-Sniffing Dogs (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - We all know dogs like to smell just about everything, including other animals' poo. Now scientists have figured out how to put the canines' odd pastimes to work to help sniff out the dung of endangered rhinos...

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CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ron Corben BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS) – Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by...

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CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods

BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS) - Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.

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Greenpeace warns against SA’s coal-fired power stations

The environmental group, Greenpeace, has added its voice to misgivings expressed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) about the construction of more coal-fired power stations in South Africa. WWF South Africa said earlier that...

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World Wild Life Fund Runs the Olympic Torch Relay

By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers The panda is the icon of the World Wildlife Fund, but it was 24 polar bears in the Arctic that grabbed the attention of CEO Carter Roberts last week. Roberts was in Canada, west of the Hudson...

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Moore foundation names conservation chief

San Francisco Business Times - by Castilleja has overseen the World Wildlife Fund’s global conservation efforts since 2006, and prior to that he was senior vice president for field programs at the World Wildlife Fund. He holds...

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Three rare leopards born in Russia's Primorye

VLADIVOSTOK, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - Three rare Amur leopards have been born in Primorye Region, an Amur department spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund said on Tuesday. Andrei Fereferov said that game biologists had...

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WWF Comments on US-China Summit

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) issued a statement from Keya Chatterjee, Acting Director of Climate Change for WWF, in reaction to remarks today by President Obama and President Hu Jintao on prospects for the upcoming climate...

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Hunters become the hunted

Leopards may be the kings in jungles but these elusive and solitary hunters in our northern mountains might be reduced to fighting for their lives. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), seven to eight leopards on average...

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Siberian tiger situation 'catastrophic'

A Russian representative of the World Wildlife Fund says countries and organisations involved hope to raise up to US$1 billion ($1.36 billion) for the ambitious programme. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

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