Killer shark to be destroyed in Australia
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Australian police and wildlife officers have been ordered to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on.
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A 200-pound mako shark attacked a fisherman on his boat deck, biting him on the leg after the man reeled it in while fishing off Australia's east coast Sunday, an official said.
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Australia plans to create what it believes will be the most lethal force of fighter jets in Southeast Asia by equipping its aircraft with long-range missiles in a move critics said could antagonize neighbors.
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The South Australian Government has authorised police and wildlife officers to destroy the shark which killed 18-year-old Nick Petersen off West Beach in Adelaide yesterday.
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A South African shark-spotting program to warn surfers and swimmers about the approach of great whites is to be expanded, environmentalists said Thursday, though they added the sharks have more to fear than humans.
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Next Thursday, Hugh Edmeades of Christie's auction house will bring down the gavel in Monaco's famed Oceanographic Museum and Aquarium. When he closes the bidding, a sinuous shark recently discovered thousands of miles away in Indonesian waters will have a new scientific name. And hundreds of tho...
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be dead within decades because of global warming, a leaked IPCC report says.
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Australia urged Wednesday Japanese whalers and environmental activists heading for a showdown in the Southern Ocean to show restraint, warning deaths could occur if anything went wrong.
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Australia is to spend up to A$450m (US$320m) on cruise missiles to give its military the &quot;most lethal capacity&quot; for air combat in the region.
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A microscopic fungus native to Australia and blamed for the death of people and animals in British Columbia is now linked to the deaths of porpoises and at least one cat in Washington state.
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CAIRNS, Australia  - A 38-year-old Australian man bled to death Saturday after he was rescued from the jaws of a shark while spearfishing on the Great Barrier Reef, authorities said.
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TV personality Steve Irwin's death by stingray may be spurring some fans to maim the fish, ten of which were found killed this week off Australia.
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A great white shark which killed a teenage surfer should be hunted down and destroyed, officials say. But the dead boy&#39;s father has said he doesn&#39;t want the creature to be killed.
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Federal scientists want permission to kill Galapagos sharks in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in an effort to save the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.
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Marine biologist Dr Rosemary Gales inspects a dead dolphin 29 November 2004 on King Island in Bass Strait off Australia&#39;s south coast where 80 whales and dolphins died after stranding themselves.
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Australian dive operators said Friday they don't think tourists will be scared off by the low-budget shark nightmare movie "Open Water," which is based on actual events that took place off the country's Great Barrier Reef six years ago.
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toothfish, dubbed the &quot;white gold&quot; of the sea, which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching. other threatened species,&quot; the US-based National Environment Trust (NET) said in a report on Thursday.