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Haitian gangs getting rich off murky market for baby eels
AFP, Published on 18/11/2025
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - Gangs in Haiti are profiting from a lucrative trade in baby eels caught in the crime-ridden country's rivers and estuaries and sold abroad for thousands of US dollars.
How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape?
AFP, Published on 19/09/2025
» Tapanuli orangutans are the world's most endangered great ape. Fewer than 800 remain, all previously thought to be in their native Indonesia. But now an Indian zoo says it has one.
Dying breed: Tunisian dog lovers push to save age-old desert hound
AFP, Published on 27/06/2025
» RAS ANGELA (TUNISIA) - Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long roamed desert plains, seemingly unaware of the existential threat to their dwindling breed.
Thailand credits prey releases for 'extraordinary' tiger recovery
AFP, Published on 20/06/2025
» KAMPHAENG PHET - In the thick, steamy forests of western Thailand, 20 skittish sambar deer dart from an enclosure into the undergrowth -- unaware they may find themselves in the jaws of one of the habitat's 200 or so endangered tigers.
Antarctic penguin population decline accelerates
AFP, Published on 10/06/2025
» PARIS - Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming transforms their icy habitat, according to new research on Tuesday that warned the losses were far worse than previously imagined.
Rwandan vet lauded for saving grey crowned cranes
AFP, Published on 30/04/2025
» RUGEZI, Rwanda - White wings flashing overhead in the sunlight, conservationist Olivier Nsengimana points out Rwanda’s grey crowned cranes, migratory birds that have made an extraordinary comeback in the Great Lakes region.
Pandas, like Trump, are back in Washington
AFP, Published on 25/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - Move over President Trump -- the newest stars in Washington are two giant pandas who made their public debut on Friday in front of hundreds of adoring fans.
Oligarchs already own much of US - can they buy democracy?
AFP, Published on 17/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - They increasingly own everything from access to space to how we get news on Earth and now outgoing President Joe Biden warns America's new breed of Donald Trump-allied oligarchs could gobble up US democracy itself.
Hard to bear: UK's only pandas return to China
AFP, Published on 04/12/2023
» LONDON: The UK's only giant pandas left Edinburgh for China on Monday after spending 12 cubless years in the Scottish capital.
Quick, tidy up! They're here: San Francisco scrambles for APEC
AFP, Published on 13/11/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Like a housework-shy couple who suddenly discover the neighbors are dropping round, San Francisco is in tidying panic mode as it readies for thousands of influential APEC visitors.