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By UN NewsGlobal efforts to prevent crimes against nature and bring offenders to justice are being hampered by glaring differences in environmental protection laws among countries and regions, UN crime prevention experts said on Friday."Stronger legi...
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By AFPA British wildlife conservation group on Friday said it had uncovered thousands of breaches of animal welfare standards at zoos across Europe, urging improvements.The Aspinall Foundation claimed it had found more than 3,000 breaches of standard...
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By AFPDozens of rhino have been released to the wild in South Africa in a first step of an initiative to free 2,000 into conservancies across the continent, the NGO African Parks said.The southern white rhino was hunted to near extinction in the late...
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By AFPThe number of endangered Iberian lynx in the wild in Spain and Portugal has nearly doubled since 2020 to surpass 2,000 last year, the Spanish government said Friday.A total of 722 lynx were born in 2023 bringing their total number in the two co...
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By AFPDemocrats on Thursday slammed a new law introduced by Florida that makes climate change a lesser priority and largely removes the phrase from statutes in the hottest state in the mainland United States.The legislation, which was signed Wednesda...
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By AFPThe massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and deepening in reefs around the globe, scientists warned Thursday.Amid record ocean temperatures, coral bleaching has been recorded in 62 countries and ter...
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By AFP/Khaliun BayartsogtThe icy peaks of Jargalant Mountain are supposed to belong to snow leopards, whose numbers have dwindled to fewer than 1,000 in Mongolia, but hard-pressed herders are increasingly pushing into the vulnerable animals' traditio...
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By AFPThe International Energy Agency announced on Tuesday that $2.2 billion had been pledged by governments and companies to improve access to less deadly and polluting cooking methods in Africa.More than two billion people cook on basic stoves or o...
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By AFPLast year's northern hemisphere summer was the hottest in 2,000 years, according to a new study published on Tuesday.Scientists say 2023 was the hottest year globally since records began in 1850, but the study in the journal Nature indicates hu...
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By AFP/Sara HusseinRecord-breaking heat last month that prompted governments in Asia to close schools offers fresh evidence of how climate change is threatening the education of millions of children.The arrival of seasonal rains has now brought relie...
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By AFP/Lucie AUBOURGGlacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze. And even the tenacious cacti of Saguaro National Park are struggling to endure a decades-long drought.Since their creation, na...
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By AFPOver 100 civil society groups on Monday expressed alarm at attacks on green policies in Europe as key elections loom, and urged leaders to "stop before it is too late".European parliament elections are in early June and a key battleground has b...
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