Conservation nations claimed an emphatic victory over Japan's
whaling ambitions last night when its proposal for a resumption
of commercial whaling was soundly beaten.
- Sydney Morning Hereald
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SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government banned commercial
fishing for swordfish in a large swath of the Pacific Ocean in order
to protect endangered sea turtles that were being killed or injured
by the hooks.
-The Mercury News
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You might not know it from looking around Santa Fe,
but prairie dogs are vanishing.
-The Santa Fe New Mexican
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SINGAPORE (AP) -- Life in the balmy tropics has made
polar bears Inuka and Sheba go green with algae.
-Arizona Daily Star
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A plea to find a new home for the 22-year-old African elephant,
a star attraction at the Alaska Zoo in South Anchorage for
more than two decades, went public recently as several
letter-to-the-editor writers debated whether Maggie is lonely,
cold and cramped in her winter compound or actually quite happy.
-Anchorage Daily News
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Stumpy, the North Atlantic right whale grandmother of hope,
died last week after being hit by a ship somewhere between
New York Harbor and Chesapeake Bay.
- Cape Cod Times
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More than 100 gopher tortoises were killed and their shells
discarded in a secluded area in Leesburg, Florida.
- The Daily Commercial
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Dave Louthan says he remembers her well: an old
dairy cow with specks of blood on her tail, spooky
about going down the ramp into the slaughterhouse.
Louthan says it was "a fluke" that the Holstein, a cow
he describes as "a good walker," was tested.
- The Seattle Times
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A bill that could save the lives of thousands of animals and
children has been introduced in the state Senate.
- Albuquerque Journal
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Politicians wrangle over wolf legislation
- Jackson Hole News