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Ailing whaler treated in NZ under guard
AP   Monday, 05 February 2007
AP - An ailing crewman from a Japanese whaling vessel was being treated at a New Zealand hospital under tight security because of anti-whaling sentiments, an official said Monday.
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Pit bull mauls boy's foot; mom charged
AP   Sunday, 04 February 2007
AP - The mother of a 4-year-old boy whose foot was mauled by the family's pit bull puppy was charged with child endangering, authorities said Saturday.
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Judge awards dog left in murder-suicide
AP   Sunday, 04 February 2007
AP - A custody fight over a golden retriever that belonged to an estranged couple who died in a murder-suicide has apparently ended with a judge awarding the dog to the family of the man police said killed his estranged girlfriend.
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Ky. aquarium hopes 2 sharks will mate
AP   Saturday, 03 February 2007

This photo made available by the Newport Aquarium shows a male shark ray at an aquarium facility in Newport, Ky. in Jan. 2007.  Cupid's making at stop at the 'Swimming with Sharks' exhibit at the Newport Aquarium just in time for Valentine's Day. The aquarium has acquired a rare male shark ray to serve as a companion to female Sweet Pea, with the hope that the two will hit it off and produce some offspring for the nearly endangered fish. (AP Photo/Newport Aquarium, Mark Alexander)AP - Cupid's making a stop at the "Swimming with Sharks" exhibit at the Newport Aquarium — just in time for Valentine's Day.


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PETA workers cleared of animal cruelty
AP   Saturday, 03 February 2007

PETA workers Andrew Cook and Adria Hinkle hug in Hertford County Criminal Superior Court Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, in Winton, N.C., after a jury found them not guilty of animal cruelty for euthanizing animals they picked up from shelters, but guilty of littering for dumping the animals' bodies. (AP Photo/Calvin Bryant, Pool)AP - A jury cleared two animal rights workers of animal cruelty charges Friday for euthanizing cats and dogs they took from shelters, but both were convicted of littering for dumping the carcasses in a trash bin.


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Anti-whaling ships say they have been made "pirates"
Reuters   Friday, 02 February 2007
Reuters - An anti-whaling group searching Antarctic waters for a Japanese whaling fleet with the aim of disrupting its operations said both its vessels will soon be "pirate ships" following a decision by Britain to deregister one its vessels.
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Russians, Chinese look for Amur leopards
AP   Friday, 02 February 2007
AP - Russian and Chinese conservationists began searching Thursday for signs of the last remaining Amur leopards in Russia's Far East and adjacent Chinese border regions, as part of a triennial census of the nearly extinct cats.
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Man wins fight with vicious pit bull
AP   Friday, 02 February 2007
AP - A 65-year-old retired truck driver who was attacked by a vicious pit bulldog during a neighborhood walk choked the dog to death as he defended himself.
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PETA worker apologizes in animal dumping
AP   Friday, 02 February 2007
AP - An animal-rights worker charged with dumping the bodies of euthanized dogs and cats apologized in court Thursday, saying she left the carcasses in a trash bin because they stank.
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Top multinationals pledge to cut carbon pollution
AFP   Friday, 02 February 2007

An IBM sign stands outside the IBM building in downtown Chicago.  Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised to reduce by 10 million tons annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)AFP - Some of the very corporations once vilified by environmentalists promised to reduce by 10 million tons annually their collective output of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund announced.


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Russia, China track endangered leopard population
AFP   Thursday, 01 February 2007

A leopard in Peshawar, Pakistan, June 2006. Russian and Chinese scientists are to start counting leopards in far eastern Russia amid signs that the number of these endangered animals may be increasing.(AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood)AFP - Russian and Chinese scientists are to start counting leopards in far eastern Russia amid signs that the number of these endangered animals may be increasing.


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