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AUGUST 10, 2009

Tags: greenpeace. Very action oriented for them. Are they trying for their own Animal Planet show?

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AUGUST 2, 2010

In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia. Tags: universities animal experimentation UK animal research wales cardiff university.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The awesome R2 Fish Training School makes it easy and fun to train your goldfish (or any fish actually, as long as it’s about an inch long). From teaching your fish to go through hoops, to playing basketball, the R2 Fish Training School has it all and then some! Tags: reviews. Training a goldfish!

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JUNE 10, 2009

"We are fighting a war against fish, and we are. That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we can still kill and eat fish, yet not be at war with them. That tells me that we're still at war, as we are going to continue to kill fish because we can and we want to.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

A federal appeals court made a final decision Wednesday on whether Fish and Wildlife could allow oil companies to interfere with polar bears. Fish and Wildlife service wrongfully issued authorization for oil companies to work in areas that could potentially hurt the bears. Tags: oil drilling polar bear arctic.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

At my book club last week, someone actually admitted she craves fish and chips every time she goes to the aquarium! Tags: dolphin marine animals aquariums PETA. This is a good argument from PETA for keeping dolphins out of aquariums. (At

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

Fish and Wildlife Service denied the species protection in March and said that even if wolverines disappeared from the lower 48 states, the species would survive because there are larger populations in Canada. Tags: us fish and wildlife endangered species. Environmental groups sued the U.S. They just don't give a f@#$.

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AUGUST 18, 2008

Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife officials from Environment Canada and the U.S. Tags: ivory canada us fish and wildlife africa smuggling us. The sentence follows a long running international investigation by special agents of the U.S, Attorney's Office in Cleveland, Ohio. Siyam plead guilty in a U.S.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2008

A golden lab was rescued by a North Carolina fishing guide about a mile from land. It sounds like his owner left him in one boat while he went off fishing with a friend in another. Tags: animal rescue. Some commenters think the story is a hoax. But at least the story has a happy ending. Feliz Friday!

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

. — A 27-year-old man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her pet fish has been sentenced to two years probation and a psychological evaluation. The woman fled, then returned to find her fish on the floor with a knife through it. Court documents said Fite told an officer, “If she can’t have me, then she can’t have the fish.”

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MARCH 23, 2010

China, by far the world’s largest consumer of the cartilaginous fish, for sharkfin soup, and Japan, which has battled to keep the convention from being extended to any marine species, led the opposition. Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan china endangered species. This really sucks. According to the New York Times.

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JANUARY 1, 2010

But they are all seriously ill with malnutrition, gaping wounds from fishing line injuries, broken and scarred fins, busted jaws or brain damage from domoic acid poisoning. The explosives are tossed into the water to scare away seals from fishing areas. Tags: marine animals seals sea lions.

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JULY 18, 2010

Pet sales would be banned altogether, except for the sale of pet fish. Tags: california san francisco legislation pets. All companion animals including dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, and lizards would be considered as pets. Sounds good, but I just don't believe this will pass.

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JULY 26, 2009

The group is called Seal Sitters and they protect baby seals who have been left on the each while their moms fish. Tags: seattle animal rescue marine life seals. It's a nice story to offset the cruelty of the dead baby tiger in Hanoi.

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MARCH 29, 2010

Knowing them, I bet they were hoping for fish and chips instead!). Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan endangered species. Hopefully, regular citizens will read this and not just other activists. (I I forwarded an article about this to my book club members.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Tags: oceans corporate lies marine life fishing. It's a rape of the seas, but this article is more polite by calling it a "sharecropping." Big companies using little guys to do their dirty work for them, but the end result is the same. Lost sea life and a bleak future for the oceans.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Like forest creatures trying to escape a fire, marine animals such as dolphins, sharks, mullets, crabs, rays and fish are congregating in surprisingly shallow waters off the Florida coast line as they flee the encroaching oil spill. Tags: marine animals 2010 oil spill Gulf of Mexico. From ShortNews.com.literally, short, short news!

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MARCH 17, 2009

of Fish and Game hopes to kill up to 328 wolves in order to protect caribou calves. Tags: wolves. The Alaska Dept. The LA Times Greenspace blog has the story.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Tags: wildlife crime fish and wildlife montana poaching us trophy hunting. Others take the entire animal and still others leave the dead animal, although Golie said he's seen people come back months later after poaching an animal to try to recover the antlers.

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MAY 11, 2010

Seems odd, although officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said that fish they've tested have not been killed by oil, but a lack of oxygen in the water. Tags: dead animals marine life marine animals 2010 oil spill. They also say low oxygen levels are common this time of year due to changes in temperature.

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MARCH 8, 2010

It's the humans' fault through overharvesting, the use of fish hatcheries, hydropower dams (like Bonneville) and the decimation of habitat. Tags: State of Washington salmon Stupid sea lions dams endangered species. We all know that it's not the sea lions' fault that the salmon runs are either threatened or endangered.

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MARCH 8, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States cited Senator Cantwell’s efforts to improve marine mammal rescue capability, including such challenges as disentangling marine mammals from fishing nets. Tags: State of Washington legislation humane society congress us. The Society also noted Cantwell’s work on climate change.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Dangers include fishermen deliberately blinding the animals to protect fishing equipment. Tags: UK greece animal rescue turtles. The Archelon rescue centre in Greece previously looking after Homer believes this is what happened to him. Homer, who is about 40-years-old, could have another 60 years of life.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

I understand that they are trying to encourage people to eat fish and other marine life that are not part of a collapsing fishery. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing. Tags: oceans marine animals. For the past couple of issues I've read, it has had a "sustainable seafood recipe." But I may not find one.

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MAY 16, 2009

Abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear in the oceans makes up around 10 percent of all marine litter. Tags: oceans marine life environment pollution. And the problem is getting worse as we continue overfishing the oceans. It's easy to overlook ocean issues when there are so many other things to think about.

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MAY 27, 2013

After initially flushing as I got into place the birds came back quickly as they always do at Big Egg Marsh, where they are used to people fishing and otherwise recreating along the waterfront. The flock was mostly Semipalmated Sandpipers but there were a bunch of Dunlin , a decent number of Ruddy Turnstones , and a couple of Willets.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Talking Hot Dog Ranch, Livingston, Montana: Casey Anderson tosses Brutus the grizzly bears a fish at homemade “falls.&# (Photo Credit: © Grizzly Creek Films). Casey then returns to Montana to see if he can teach a bear raised in captivity to fish for himself, in an aquarium designed for that purpose. Tags: tv.

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MAY 18, 2010

Scientists have already observed some dying fish. Tags: oil drilling marine life marine animals 2010 oil spill. Especially troubling to scientists are the effects the oil and dispersants could be having on dissolved oxygen levels in the water.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. Not only did we convince the local head of PRH that DEC was horning in on his territory, we managed to drag the president of the nearby Fish and Game Club – who personally detested trapping – into the fray. I’d released birds there.

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JULY 20, 2009

Have other cats to whip>have other fish to fry (French). To change the fishes’ water>to urinate (Spanish, Costa Rica). Climb a tree to catch a fish>attempt the impossible (Chinese). You see less than a fish through its butt>not very bright (Spanish). Tags: books. A dog’s fart>nonsense (Chinese).

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MARCH 2, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Video and desultory apology here. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Other animals that have rarely been seen on film such as the Palm nut vulture, bush pigs, mongoose, monitor lizards and snakes feeding on fish and crabs found in the Mangroves. Here is a sneak peek video about one of the more interesting creatures, the mudskipper (also known as a walking fish). Tags: tv.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

When you add the roughly 335,000 square-mile-area in the Pacific that is now protected from virtually all fishing to the nearly 700,000 square miles he closed to bottom trawling, the most destructive kind of fishing gear, this president has given future generations an ocean gift nearly the size of Texas and Alaska combined.

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JULY 22, 2010

The official news agency Xinhua says 40 oil-skimming boats and about 800 fishing boats are being used to clean up the spill, and a 15 kilometers (9 miles) oil barrier has been set up to try to stop the slick spreading. Tags: oil spill marine life china pollution.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Without careful intervention, the dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) could virtually disappear within a few years, while many other fish populations, including several other species of seahorse, face a similarly bleak future as cleanup continues. Tags: sea horses oceans marine animals 2010 oil spill environment Gulf of Mexico.

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JULY 22, 2009

Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive family adventure where guests enjoy a one-of-a-kind opportunity to swim with dolphins, snorkel with rays and tropical fish, hand-feed exotic birds and relax on pristine beaches. Check out the fun video of the dolphins: Tags: cute animals cute video.

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