Overseas News
Rare red ibis breed in wild in China.
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Scottish birds of prey deliberately poisoned.
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Interference and Loathing in Washington, D.C.
Over 800 EPA scientists report political interference in their work.
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New species discovered in Brazil.
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Asian vultures disappearing faster than dodo.
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Survival fight for eagle and hen harrier.
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A custom-crafted wetsuit may have helped Pierre the African penguin recover from a bout of a baldness.
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Nesting bird finds safest haven.
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Endangered birds come first: Scottish ministers say no to huge wind farm on Lewis peatland.
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National parks in North Yorkshire have one of the worst records for birds of prey being killed illegally.
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World Migratory Bird Day 10-11 May, 2008.
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Conservationists in Cambodia think they may be turning the corner in their fight to save one of the world's rarest birds.
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A Tribute to Aldo Leopold.
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Plant a billion trees: Earth Day, April 22.
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Even as South Korea prepares to host the next Ramsar "Wise Use of Wetlands" Convention conference (in October-November 2008), Korean bird
news tragically remains dominated by the impacts of the Saemangeum reclamation on shorebirds.
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World must reform agriculture now or face dire crisis: report.
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Hunters held as birds flock in.
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Fowl play by Malta.
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Cold snap spells tragedy for Europe-bound swallows.
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Giant beak puts woodpecker top of the bill.
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Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites.
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Survival of the dumbest.
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Surprise return for Lakes ospreys.
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Comorant massacre on Lake Constance.
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Robot hawk scares birds from airport.
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The future of agriculture.
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Corps of Engineers building sandbars for migratory birds.
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April 22, 2008, Earth Day.
A radio station that only broadcasts birdsong from an English country garden every day from 6am to midnight has become a hit with half a million listeners.
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The extremely rare yellow-billed loon a step closer to much-needed protection from threats such as oil development in Alaska and the loss of its tundra habitat in the face of global warming.
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Agriculture must revert to more natural, local production — UN–backed report.
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A foul-mouthed parrot, who once told a vicar to f**k off, has been teaching other birds how to swear.
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Gore's green army.
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Zoology students and staff from Dundee University are to help in a project which has seen a rare bird reintroduced into the rainforest of Trinidad.
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Jailed: The professional egg thief who kept 'Aladdin's cave' of 7,000 samples from wild birds.
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Rare water birds recovering in Cambodia.
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More than 15,000 birds died on Great Salt Lake last fall. Most of the birds were eared grebes.
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Bermuda Petrel returns to Nonsuch Island (Bermuda) after 400 years.
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Fighting to save the albatross from extinction, BirdLife International and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) are doubling the number of countries — from three to six — in which they work.
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The number of finches seen in the UK's gardens this winter is at the highest level for five years, but overall garden bird numbers are down.
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The chaffinch is the most popular bird in Cornish gardens, according to the latest RSPB survey.
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Why are magpies so often hated?
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Land deal could open Alaska wildlife refuge to oil.
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Sharp decline in sightings of garden birds.
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Starling tops garden birds poll.
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Brown hares boxing may become a rarity in Britain.
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Europe’s rarest finch finds favour.
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Wildlife police raid Scottish grouse moor.
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Birdsong hits flat note.
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Massive threat to Korea’s wetlands and waterbirds:
The Grand Canal proposal.
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Birds who are a ferry’s most punctual passengers.
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Wandering Albatrosses follow their nose.
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RSPCA has uncovered a trap in Darlington it thinks was used to catch birds for sale on the black market.
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Feisty US kiwi born.
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Philippines:‘lure tourists with birds’.
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Golden eagle returns to the skies.
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Encyclopedia of Life goes live.
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Warming climate may cause arctic tundra to burn.
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Birds find nesting place in Valenzuela City.
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‘Fireflies’ helping to protect birds from power lines.
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China launches crackdown on Web sites that openly trade in animal products made from threatened species.
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BirdLife Cyprus cries foul over weak penalty for falcon slaughterers.
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Paraguay’s first Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site.
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Retain spring hunting... or else, FKNK warns.
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Japan and US working together to give endangered seabirds a new home.
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Climate science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable.
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Young sea eagles are ‘doing well’.
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Black birds descend on Texas.
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Red Knot birds may be endangered species.
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Conservationists mobilise to halt mass slaughter of birds in Malta.
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Hollywood’s eco trip.
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‘Paradise’ helps white swans survive the winter.
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Invasive rats on ocean islands are threatening the survival of many of the world’s seabirds.
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A flourishing wetland on Kenya’s northern coast is under serious threat from plans to grow vast amounts of sugarcane, partly for biofuel production.
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More people are putting their money into ethical funds. But many might be shocked to learn how it’s being invested.
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Starlings blacken motorway skies.
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Eagles die in suspected poisoning.
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U.N. says world fisheries face collapse.
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British billionaire adventurer and Virgin Group Founder/CEO Richard Branson proposed the creation of an international “environmental war room”.
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The Bush administration is proposing to take yet another wildlife species–the brown pelican–off the federal endangered list.
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A federal appeals court today ordered the Federal Communications Commission to establish safeguards to protect the millions of birds killed each year in collisions with telephone, radio, cellular and other communications towers in the Gulf Coast region.
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Malta: BirdLife volunteers’ cars torched.
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Beekeepers seek £8m to fight hive plagues.
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Investment fund giants demand 90% reduction in carbon emissions.
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A Suffolk farm has recorded 12 breeding pairs of rare yellowhammer birds this year after setting down grass margins for wildlife habitat.
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100,000 migratory birds disappear in China storms.
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A voluntary warden of migratory birds in Uttar Pradesh.
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New website creates online condor community.
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Migrant birds suffering on snow-bound wetlands.
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‘New type of bird’ found in Nepal.
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Hungry bird swallows whole pike.
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Painted birds confuse twitchers.
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Three gamekeepers admit trying to trap birds of prey.
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...‘game over’ for Malta’s most notorious national pastime: shooting migratory birds during the breeding season.
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Botulism is killing Great Lakes birds.
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Farms are eating up the world’s wildernesses.
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Iraq bird book for children launched.
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World’s biggest birdfair provides record funding for preventing extinctions.
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Rats from sinking ship feared to threaten seabird colony.
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Report reveals ‘alarming’ rate of mangrove habitat loss.
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UK’s bird watching event begins.
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Why Great Lakes birds are dying.
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Largest cache of poisoned bait discovery fuels birds of prey concerns.
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Wanted: homes for 65,000 birds displaced by Severn barrage.
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Warm British winters tempt home birds to shun the Med.
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Anger in Philippines as hunters posted pictures of killed threatened birds on their websites.
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Shouting Macaw scares off pet store burglar.
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Bald Ibis jigsaw falling into place.
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The Critically Endangered Laysan Duck had a very successful 2007 breeding season according to U.S. Geological Survey.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed six imperiled birds from around the world as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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Bird condo boom for Thailand’s “birds nest soup” birds.
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Purple swamphen found in Hainan - in a restaurant...
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Bald eagles die after eating fish waste.
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Local increase in vultures thanks to diclofenac campaign in Nepal.
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Satellite images reveal deforestation threatening endemic bird species.
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Qatar to be a paradise for birds.
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Historic penguin sketches found in university basement.
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Ministers failing to act on wildlife crime.
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50 people who could save the planet.
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Eagle to patrol Italian airport.
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The Asian Development Bank says it will help China protect Yancheng, one of Asia’s largest coastal wetlands which is an important winter site for threatened red-crowned cranes.
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Fuels made from U.S. corn, Brazilian soy and Malaysian palm oil may be worse overall than fossil fuels.
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Banned toxin killed birds on S. Shore.
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Hugo man pays $30,000 for poisoning birds with insecticide.
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Whooping Crane record broken in Texas.
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Cranes fly over the wetland of the Yellow River Delta in east China’s Shandong Province.
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A barn owl has been entrusted with a very special task at a wedding - flying in the rings for the bride and groom.
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Wood pigeons are flocking from the countryside to towns and cities because of changes in farming.
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All about owls.
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Pacific salmon invading Atlantic, threatening penguins.
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Birds of prey stand guard at Real Madrid stadium.
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“Guest birds” threat to cyclone survivors.
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A return trip to the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, Indonesia has yielded two new species of mammal as well as more photos of some of the region’s stunning bird species.
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European Court condemns Ireland on insufficient bird protection.
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Autumn 2007: the worst for illegal bird trapping in Cyprus in four years.
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Two men charged with Cyprus falcon massacre.
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Study reveals severe decline of Europe’s common birds.
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Gulls flock to south China.
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Birdwatchers’ world record bid. The Biggest twitch.
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The island of Oronsay and the southern part of neighbouring Colonsay are to be designated special protection areas for hen harrier, chough and corncrake.
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Six species of seabirds native to New Zealand, Fiji, Ecuador, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands would be protected by the Endangered Species Act under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal.
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Not even birds can avoid Israeli politics.
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Annual count finds nearly 8,000 birds in Central Park.
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Illegal trappers on Cyprus killed more than half a million protected birds this fall for sale at local restaurants.
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Oil spill in Korea.
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Obsession with caged birds kills off wild white starling.
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A deal is finally struck in Bali.
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Bali Climate Change Conference revives hope for tropical forests.
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Rainforest park sets the bar for Bali talks.
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Law enforcement fails Bolivia’s parrots.
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Shell plans to take on greener tinge by growing algae.
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Bleak future for Antarctic penguins.
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A pair of peregrine falcons who have set up home on top of one of Wales’ most famous church towers.
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Singing bird’s grave reinstated.
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Oil Threatens South Korean Seafood, Birds, Tourism.
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Bali Climate Change Conference revives hope for tropical forests.
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A rare sea eagle is feared to have been killed on a shooting estate in Scotland.
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Rarely-heard recordings of birdsong from the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar have been compiled and released by the British Library.
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South Korea’s worst oil spill is threatening beaches and wildlife on the country’s west coast.
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Rats are eating the birds in Alaska.
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Google investing hundreds of millions in green energy.
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Take over our rainforest.
Guyana’s extraordinary offer to Britain to save one of the world’s most important carbon sinks.
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Outrage as birds slain by ‘glass wall of death’.
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Potato chips get eco-friendly.
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More than 25% of U.S. birds need help.
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Canada draws applause for protecting “Amazon of the North”.
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The Birds in My Life Soars to #1 Bestseller at AMAZON.com.
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South Korea land grab hurting shore birds.
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The Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan, once renowned for supporting 40,000 birds from 370 species, has only 30 species left this year.
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Leaked oil kills more than 30,000 birds in Russia.
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Queen Charlotte goshawk warrants protection as an endangered species in Canada, but not in Alaska.
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Government of Cambodia declares Sarus Crane Reserve.
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Runway success for La Mercy swallows.
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There are less than fifty Chinese Crested Terns in China.
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A study involving whooper swans wintering on a Dumfriesshire reserve could have a major impact on new wind farm developments across Scotland.
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The black oil spreading for miles from the Golden Gate is staining one of the richest wildlife regions on the Pacific Coast and threatening hundreds of thousands of birds.
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Two hen harriers dead, one prince questioned, no charges.
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President Bush uses Cornell’s recommendations in national strategy to conserve birds.
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The UN’s quiet new boss is hoping that his eco-tour of the southern hemisphere will concentrate minds on the planet’s travails.
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Video: Japan’s Dolphin Hunt Protested.
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Vulture-killing drug now on sale in Africa.
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Rare bird registration ‘crucial’.
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More and more foxes are seeking their fortunes in German towns, where food is ample and people sometimes mistake them for overgrown dachshunds.
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Foreign birds threaten Taiwan’s native species.
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Detectives who questioned Prince Harry during an investigation into the illegal killing of two rare birds of prey over the Queen’s estate at Sandringham are to send a report to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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Biggest ever survey of British birds starts.
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Heroes of the environment - Time.
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Brazilians are angry that foreigners are making online purchases of chunks of Amazon rainforest in an effort to stop deforestation.
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Biofuel plantations, logging and hunting are stealing habitats from our closest relatives.
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The Eco Fashion revolution.
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In the largest “debt-for-nature” swap in history, the U.S. government forgave $26 million owed it by Costa Rica on the stipulation that the funds be spent on the preservation of tropical rainforest.
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Outrage as poaching discovered on Greece’s Lesvos island.
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President Bush moves to conserve birds.
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Give birds a chance - let your garden grow a little wild and insect-friendly.
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Rare birds shot at Queen’s Sandringham estate.
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