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Earth Hour 2018: How Different Countries "Switched Off" For Environment
People across the world are doing their bit "by switching off" for the environment for an hour.
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Los Angeles Zoo To The Mountain Lion That Probably Ate Its Koala: No Hard Feelings
The situation did not look good: Inside the Los Angeles Zoo, a koala enclosure was missing one member - an elderly female named Killarney. Outside, mutilated marsupial parts lay in a bloody heap.
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Oregon Standoff Ends After 41 Days With Dramatic Surrender
The four holdouts in the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered on Thursday, with the last protester repeatedly threatening suicide in a dramatic final phone call with mediators before he gave up, ending the 41-day standoff.
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FBI Negotiates With Defiant Oregon Refuge Holdouts
The FBI negotiated with four armed occupants at a remote federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday while the holdouts in a video posted online expressed their mistrust of the government and reluctance to leave.
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Shots Fired, 1 Killed In Arrest Of Oregon Militants
The FBI on Tuesday arrested the leaders of an armed group that has occupied a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon for the past three weeks, conducting a traffic stop that prompted gunfire - and one death - along a highway.
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Armed Militia, Bundy Brothers Take Over Federal Building In Rural Oregon
An unpredictable new chapter in the wars over federal land use in the West unfolded on Sunday after a group of armed activists split off from an earlier protest march and occupied part of a national wildlife refuge in remote southeastern Oregon.
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US Militia Occupy Wildlife Park Headquarters In Rancher Row
A group of US militiamen reportedly angered by the jailing of two ranchers occupied the headquarters of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon on Saturday, local authorities said.
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US Government Ends Research on All Chimpanzees
Chimpanzees will no longer be used for US government research and the remaining 50 chimps in federal custody will be sent to a sanctuary for retirement, health authorities said Wednesday.
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Monkey Who Took Grinning 'Selfie' Should Own Copyright, Says Lawsuit
A rare crested macaque monkey who snapped a well-known, grinning "selfie" should be declared the photo's owner and receive damages for copyright infringement after it was used in a wildlife book, animal rights activists argued in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
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US Wildlife Managers Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct
Eastern cougars that once roamed North America from parts of Canada to South Carolina are extinct and no longer warrant federal Endangered Species Act protections, US wildlife managers said on Tuesday.
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5,000 Chinese Workers in Kenya a Threat to Wildlife
A Kenyan consumer lobby group says that 5,000 Chinese nationals who are coming to Kenya for the construction of a railway line pose a threat to the country's elephants.
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Earth Hour 2018: How Different Countries "Switched Off" For Environment
People across the world are doing their bit "by switching off" for the environment for an hour.
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Los Angeles Zoo To The Mountain Lion That Probably Ate Its Koala: No Hard Feelings
The situation did not look good: Inside the Los Angeles Zoo, a koala enclosure was missing one member - an elderly female named Killarney. Outside, mutilated marsupial parts lay in a bloody heap.
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Oregon Standoff Ends After 41 Days With Dramatic Surrender
The four holdouts in the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered on Thursday, with the last protester repeatedly threatening suicide in a dramatic final phone call with mediators before he gave up, ending the 41-day standoff.
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FBI Negotiates With Defiant Oregon Refuge Holdouts
The FBI negotiated with four armed occupants at a remote federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday while the holdouts in a video posted online expressed their mistrust of the government and reluctance to leave.
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Shots Fired, 1 Killed In Arrest Of Oregon Militants
The FBI on Tuesday arrested the leaders of an armed group that has occupied a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon for the past three weeks, conducting a traffic stop that prompted gunfire - and one death - along a highway.
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Armed Militia, Bundy Brothers Take Over Federal Building In Rural Oregon
An unpredictable new chapter in the wars over federal land use in the West unfolded on Sunday after a group of armed activists split off from an earlier protest march and occupied part of a national wildlife refuge in remote southeastern Oregon.
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US Militia Occupy Wildlife Park Headquarters In Rancher Row
A group of US militiamen reportedly angered by the jailing of two ranchers occupied the headquarters of a federal wildlife reserve in Oregon on Saturday, local authorities said.
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US Government Ends Research on All Chimpanzees
Chimpanzees will no longer be used for US government research and the remaining 50 chimps in federal custody will be sent to a sanctuary for retirement, health authorities said Wednesday.
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Monkey Who Took Grinning 'Selfie' Should Own Copyright, Says Lawsuit
A rare crested macaque monkey who snapped a well-known, grinning "selfie" should be declared the photo's owner and receive damages for copyright infringement after it was used in a wildlife book, animal rights activists argued in a federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
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US Wildlife Managers Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct
Eastern cougars that once roamed North America from parts of Canada to South Carolina are extinct and no longer warrant federal Endangered Species Act protections, US wildlife managers said on Tuesday.
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5,000 Chinese Workers in Kenya a Threat to Wildlife
A Kenyan consumer lobby group says that 5,000 Chinese nationals who are coming to Kenya for the construction of a railway line pose a threat to the country's elephants.
