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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP) — Taiwan has banned the eating of dogs and cats, lawmakers said Wednesday. as pressure grows to improve animal welfare after a spate of cruelty cases that stirred public outrage. Parliament passed legislation to outlaw the consumption, purchase or possession of dog and cat meat, with offenders facing a fine of up to Tw$250,000 ($8,170). The bill also hiked the penalty for killing or abusing animals to a maximum two-year jail term […]
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II opens the new Center for Elephant Care at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Whipsnade, north of London. https://youtu.be/k7e54nMna0M
CHENGDU CITY, Sichuan Province, southwest China (CCTV) — It may be an easy life for panda cubs at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China’s Sichuan Province as they tease their handlers day in and day out. One such cub, named Qiyi, did exactly that in the latest video from the base. In the video recorded last Monday, Qiyi’s handler tried hard to persuade it to return to the room after […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Poachers have shot dead a one-horned rhinoceros at a national wildlife park in Nepal, officials said Sunday, spotlighting the threat faced by the rare animals. Officials on Saturday found the male rhino with its horn gouged out in Chitwan National Park, the country’s biggest rhino conservation area. “We performed a post-mortem and found that it had been hit by a bullet on its head,” the park’s spokesman Nurendra Aryal told AFP. Aryal said […]
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (Eagle News) – Isang malaking pawikan ang nalambat ng mga mangingisda na mayroong bigat na 180 kilograms. Ang nasabing pawikan ay kabilang sa species ng green sea turtle na isa umanong endangered species. Ayon kay Felix Badon, Ipil MENRO, nahuli ng lambat ng mangingisda ang pawikan sa Sibakya, Barangay Sanito ng Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. Agad itong ipinagbigay-alam sa kanilang tanggapan. Ito na ang ika-98 marine sea turtle na narescue ng LGU-Ipil mula noong taong […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The world’s most lethal scorpion, the death stalker, has been caught on high-speed camera for the first time lashing out with its lethal stinger, scientists reported Tuesday. A comparison of half-a-dozen scorpion species shown in ultra-slow motion revealed an unsuspected variety of strike modes, they reported in the journal Functional Ecology. The death stalker had the fastest lunge of all, with its venomous stinger snapping over its head like […]
CHITWAN, Nepal (AFP) — Conservationists on Monday captured a rare one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal as part of an attempt to increase the number of the vulnerable animals, which are prized by wildlife poachers. Five rhinos — one male and four female — will be released into a national park in Nepal’s far west over the coming week in the hope of establishing a new breeding group. The first, a large male estimated to be around […]
CHESTER, ENGLAND, United Kingdom (Reuters) — A quartet of eye-catching new individuals arrived at Chester Zoo, England. Native to Madagascar, the distinctive looking lowland streaked tenrecs are “striped like a bee and covered in spines like a hedgehog,” the zoo said in an e-mail. A video shot on Monday (March 27) shows the little known animals as they explore their habitat at the facility. The new arrivals are believed to be the only lowland streaked […]
by Tristan MCCONNELL Agence France-Presse NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — The price of ivory has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the last three years, according to research conducted in China and published Wednesday by the conservation group Save the Elephants. At its peak in 2014 the estimated wholesale price for raw ivory stood at $2,100 (1,900 euros) per kilogram on the Chinese black market, but by early 2017 the price had fallen to $730 per kilogram, […]
THAILAND (Reuters) — Footage of Indochinese tigers and their cubs have been captured in Thailand’s eastern jungle, confirming the world’s second breeding population of the critically endangered cats is there, wildlife conservationists said on Wednesday (March 29). Evidence from 156 camera traps documented at least six cubs from four female tigers in the country’s eastern jungle – the first evidence of tigers breeding in the eastern area in more than 15 years. The cameras that captured […]
A rare white rhino named Timbo was born in the Amneville Zoo in northeastern France. He may be just nine days old but he already weighs 80kg. (AFP Video) https://youtu.be/H11af4pbfjs
POLANCO, Zamboanga del Norte (Eagle News) – Sinimulan na ang isang buwang mahigit na anti-rabies vaccination ng Lokal na Pamahalaan sa Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte. Ito ay sa pakikipagtulungan ng Polanco Agriculture Office at mga veterinarian ang nasabing aktibidad. Layunin nitong mabakunahan ang lahat ng aso sa naturang bayan para sa seguridad ng mamamayan. Nagsagawa din ng house to house ang nasabing grupo upang masiguro na mabakunahan ang lahat ng aso. Ikinatuwa naman ng mga residente ang […]
