Poachers leave bonobo at risk
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Humankind's closest relative is facing extinction in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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South Africa's Kruger National Park elephant population has nearly doubled in recent years, causing heavy habitat destruction and invasion of adjacent farms. Now conservation authorities are considering a plan to kill perhaps thousands elephants to bring the problem under control.
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One of the world's largest cases of  great ape smuggling will draw to a close next week when around  50 orangutan rescued from a Thai amusement park fly home to  their native Indonesia, a wildlife campaigner said on Thursday.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Zookeepers, police and animal control officers followed five runaway wildebeests through a residential area Tuesday after they escaped from the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo.
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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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NAMALINDE, Malawi  - Maria Semu holds back tears  as she tells how she lost her husband Ngalu to a crocodile --  another victim of growing conflict between man and beast in one  of Africa's poorest countries.
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Staff at Berlin&#39;s internationally renowned zoo were working to restore public confidence yesterday after a 110kg South American bear escaped from its enclosure and spent more than half an hour frolicking in a children&#39;s playground before being knocked out
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Man and mother nature are threatening at least six distinct species of African giraffe, which are highly endangered and could face extinction if not protected, a study warned Saturday.
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5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.
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Some owners set them loose instead of bringing them to crocodile refuges. But the pet trade helps wild crocs, too.
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The Brookfield Zoo announced this week the birth of a baby okapi &#151; an endangered African animal that looks as if it were put together by committee.
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Heart of barkingness A team of cryptozoologists is headed for the South American jungle to track down a legendary apeman said to terrorise villages and tear out cattle tongues.â¦
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WASHINGTON -- An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study to be released today estimates that as many as 23,000 animals were slaughtered last year.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans are at risk of disease, amid devastating floods, the UN warns.
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AMSTERDAM -- Dozens of chimpanzees from a Dutch laboratory face a housing crisis after plans for their early retirement on the Spanish coast collapsed because of residents' fears they would carry infectious diseases.
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By DILIP GANGULY  CALCUTTA, India - Poachers seeking to bag a Royal Bengal tiger in the Sunderbans reserve are encountering a unique new security measure to keep them away: hundreds of crocodiles that have been released in the mangrove forest.