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Ontario tree nursery to destroy millions of trees due to provincial cutbacks
One of the main nurseries for an Ontario tree planting program that's being scrapped by the province said it will likely have to destroy about three million trees because of the cancellation.
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Killing migratory birds has been a crime for decades. Not anymore.
Under Republican and Democratic presidents from Nixon through Obama, killing migratory birds, even inadvertently, was a crime, with fines for violations ranging from $250 to $100 million. The power to prosecute created a deterrent that protected birds and enabled government to hold companies to account for environmental disasters.
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Deer Wars: The Forest Awakens
On Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, culling deer is an act of cultural and ecological restoration. By Leslie Anthony.
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In Memory of Yellowstone Wolf 926
She was a survivor and an alpha. And then she was legally shot and killed by a hunter. Yellowstone Park's legendary wolf researcher Rick McIntyre reflects on the life of one of the park's most famous canines. By Rick McIntyre.
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Badgers, stoats and otters stage ‘incredible’ revival
They must survive government culls, gamekeepers, poisoning, persecution and increasingly busy roads but, in modern times at least, Britain’s carnivores have never had it so good: badger, otter, pine marten, polecat, stoat and weasel populations have “markedly improved” since the 1960s, according to a new study.
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Botswana mulls turning elephants into pet food
Botswana should lift its four-year ban on big game hunting and also allow the canning of elephant meat for pet food, Cabinet ministers in the southern African nation have recommended. Botswana, home to nearly 130,000 elephants, is one of the most popular tourist destinations for wildlife lovers who want to glimpse the animals. But tension over the elephant population has grown, with some arguing they damage crops.
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'Yanked from the ground': cactus theft is ravaging the American desert
Hipster tastes have fueled a spike in succulent poaching. Now conservationists are finding creative ways to rescue them
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Solar Farms Shine a Ray of Hope on Bees and Butterflies
The tidy rows of gleaming solar panels at Pine Gate Renewables facility in southwestern Oregon originally sat amid the squat grasses of a former cattle pasture. But in 2017 the company started sowing the 41-acre site with a colorful riot of native wildflowers. The shift was not merely aesthetic; similar projects at a growing number of solar farms around the country aim to help reverse the worrying declines in bees, butterflies and other key pollinating species observed in recent years.
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Small Weasel-Like Animals Are Taking Down Big Cats
Two elusive predators, the lynx and the fisher, battle to the death in the snowstorms of New England. By Joshua Rapp Learn.
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Back from extinction: The Mallee emu wren makes a comeback in South Australia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
After a series of catastrophic wildfires in 2014, the Mallee emu wren became extinct in South Australia, but the birds are making a comeback in the state with the help of environmentalists. When the tiny bird — weighing only as much as a 10 cent piece — could no longer be found in SA, there were still numbers that existed in parts of Victoria's north-west, but they were listed as endangered.
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The Most Worrying Wildfires Burning in the U.S. Right Now
With more than 50 active wildfires burning across the American West, this summer is off to a fiery start. By Emily Moon.
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Reward offered after brutal wolf murder in Germany
It's the canine crime of the century: A wolf was killed by gunshot, tied to a concrete weight and dumped in a lake. Killing a wolf is a crime, and German wildlife groups are appealing for help to find the murderer.
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3 Alleged Rhino Poachers Eaten by Lions
Bread, weapons, and human remains were found scattered around the lions’ camp in a South African game reserve.
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Australia completes world's largest cat-proof fence to protect endangered marsupials
The world’s largest cat-proof fence has been completed in central Australia, creating a 94 square kilometre sanctuary for endangered marsupials. The 44km fence – made of 85,000 pickets, 400km of wire and 130km of netting – surrounds the Newhaven wildlife sanctuary, a former cattle station that has been bought by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Endangered species such as the bilby, the burrowing bettong and the mala (also known as the rufous hare-wallaby) will have a chance to replenish their populations inside the massive sanctuary, safe from Australia’s feral cat epidemic.
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Save Our Planet by Protecting Migratory Birds and their ‘Epic Journeys,’ urges UN Chief
As they make their global journeys, migratory birds not only set birdwatchers’ binoculars agog, they also help the planet maintain its essential ecological balance.
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Watch: Buckingham Palace Transformed by Rainforest Projection
A rainforest design was projected on the facade of Buckingham Palace on Sunday as part of a global conservation initiative led by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Conservationists plot a food drop to save migratory shorebirds from starvation
Conservationists from around the world are warning huge numbers of migratory shorebirds could starve without human intervention in China, and they're planning a food drop to help. One of the coldest winters in decades in a nature reserve in eastern China has wiped out the clam population, the major food source for the critically endangered Great Knot. The International Union for Conservation of Nature list the Great Knot as endangered, while the Australian Government considers it to be critically endangered.
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Spaniard raised by wolves disappointed with human life
Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, who lived among animals for 12 years, finds it hard just to get through the winter. By Silvia R. Pontevedra.
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Nepal’s fertile but forgotten wetlands
Undervalued and ignored, wetlands are disappearing and drying up in Nepal – leaving the communities and wildlife that depend on them exposed in a changing climate. By Ramesh Bhushal.
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Bulgarians rush to save a phalanx of distressed, frozen storks
Villagers come to the rescue after icy wings ground hundreds of migrating birds. (Mar. 21, 2018)
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