Japan might kill world's only white whale Australians fear that the world's only known white humpback whale could be slaughtered as Japan's whaling fleet prepares to embark on its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean.
Syphilis threatens rare marsupial with extinction A severe outbreak of syphilis is threatening Australia's most endangered marsupial, the gilbert's potoroo, a long-term study has found.
Many newborn seal pups have died in the storms Recent storms appear to have badly hit a grey seal colony on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast.
Experts are fearful for the long-term survival of sun bears Habitat loss and commercial hunting have been blamed for a decline in the number of sun bears - the world's smallest species of bear
Environmentalists: Protect sea turtles WASHINGTON - Two environmental groups are asking the Interior Department to declare loggerhead sea turtles that inhabit the Atlantic coast officially endangered, maintaining that tens of thousands of the turtles are killed annually by commercial fishing and because of coastal development.
Future Australian govt may use military to track Japanese whalers
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's military could be used to track Japanese whaling vessels if the opposition wins next week's election as polls predict, a top opposition figure said Thursday.
LONDON - Sahara the Arctic seal keeps turning up in warmer waters. The young seal was rescued off the coast of North Africa last year, far from his native habitat in the Arctic. He was brought to Britain, nursed back to health and freed into the wild — only to paddle in the wrong direction again. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_re_eu/saving_...uSI.qCo7j8.uyAQPLBIF
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Environmentalists have clashed with the crew of Nisshin Maru before A Japanese whaling fleet has set sail aiming to harpoon humpback whales for the first time in decades.
Red alert TO SOME it is liquid gold, to others, the harbinger of death - but to most Australians, palm oil is a complete mystery.
Yet, production of this oil - an ingredient in many of the foods we eat and products we use each day - comes at a devastating environmental cost. Millions of hectares of South-East Asian rainforest are being destroyed to make way for new palm plantations, decimating some of the world's most threatened species.
World's hottest chili to repel elephants GAUHATI, India - Wildlife experts in northeastern India are experimenting with a new weapon to prevent marauding elephants from destroying homes and crops and trampling people in villages close to their habitat — super-hot chilies. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_re_as/india_e...0aX7j.YA1PNgr24PLBIF
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