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China says pork production recovering as swine fever cases decline

BEIJING, China (AFP) -- New cases of African swine fever have declined and pork production is returning to normal, Chinese…

Despite culls, import bans, swine fever to hit pork market for years

  by Jenny VAUGHAN Agence France Presse HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) -- Millions of pigs have been culled as African Swine…

Traumatised by conflict, animals find haven in Jordan

https://youtu.be/6In_z93jCgo by Mussa Hattar JERASH, Jordan (AFP) - For more than a year after being moved to a Jordanian wildlife…

Hong Kong to cull 6,000 pigs as first swine fever case found

  HONG KONG, China (AFP) -- Hong Kong will cull 6,000 pigs after African swine fever was detected in an…

Blue whales ‘hedge their bets’ in search for food: study

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Every spring, the largest animals in the world, blue whales, migrate from their winter breeding…

Giant tortoise thought to be extinct discovered in Galapagos

SANTA CRUZ, Ecuador (AFP) -- A tortoise thought to be a Chelonoidis phantasticus, a species believed to have gone extinct…

Aussie rodent becomes first ‘climate change extinction’

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Australia officially declared a Great Barrier Reef rodent extinct on Tuesday, making it the first mammal…

Look: Tierpark Berlin shows photo of unnamed female 11-week-old icebear cub during first veterinary examination

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) -- This handout picture released by the Tierpark Berlin shows the still unnamed female 11-week-old icebear cub…

Australia cattle giant warns of ‘extreme losses’ from floods

Australia's largest cattle company has warned of "extreme losses" after record-breaking floods, as producers said more than 300,000 cows were…

Climate change pushing killer whales to migrate north

by Olivier MORIN with Gael BRANCHEREAU in Stockholm Agence France-Presse NORWAY (AFP) -- Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer…

IUCN marks “tawilis” as critically endangered species

(Eagle News) -- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has marked tawilis or "sardinella tawilis," a freshwater sardine…

Hong Kong failing to tackle wildlife smuggling epidemic: study

HONG KONG, China (AFP) -- Hong Kong must do more to crack down on illegal wildlife smuggling by ending legal…

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