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Zimbabwe to cull elephants and distribute meat to people
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» HARARE - Zimbabwe will cull dozens of elephants and distribute the meat for consumption to ease the ballooning population of the animals, its wildlife authority said Tuesday.
Taiwan bounty hunters kill invading iguanas as numbers soar
AFP, Published on 17/02/2025
» TAIWAN - Armed with a slingshot, Taiwanese bounty hunter Wu Cheng-hua bends sideways and aims his lethal weapon up at a green iguana, one of tens of thousands in the crosshairs of a government cull.
Colombia to cull some of Pablo Escobar's hippos
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» BOGOTá - Colombia will cull some of the 166 hippos descended from a small herd imported by deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, the country's environment minister said Thursday.
Keep or cull? Romania divided over its bear population
AFP, Published on 23/10/2023
» COVASNA (ROMANIA) - It was a sight that stopped traffic. A brown bear seemingly asleep, its head on its paws, on a winding forest road in central Romania, some paper napkins by its side.
Swiss cry wolf to save livestock and their predators
AFP, Published on 22/08/2023
» PONTIMIA PASTURE, Switzerland: Using a powerful torch, Aliki Buhayer-Mach momentarily drenches a nearby mountain top in light, straining to see if wolves are lurking in the shadows.
Australia told to shoot kangaroos before they starve
AFP, Published on 10/05/2023
» SYDNEY - Australia's kangaroos could die in "catastrophic" numbers if a population boom is left unchecked, ecologists have warned, while backing the industrial-scale culling of the marsupials.
New York appoints first-ever rat 'czar'
AFP, Published on 13/04/2023
» NEW YORK - New York appointed its first rat "czar" on Wednesday, tasked with cracking down on one of the more unappealing aspects of life in the Big Apple.
Meta axes 10,000 jobs in new round of cuts
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Facebook owner Meta announced a fresh wave of job cuts on Tuesday, part of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the company's "year of efficiency" as the US tech sector continues to downsize.
Emotions run high in Sweden's biggest wolf hunt
AFP, Published on 06/02/2023
» VäSTERåS, Sweden: Hunter Lars Bjork points to fresh tracks in the snow as he lumbers through a whited-out forest in central Sweden, where the biggest wolf hunt in modern times is drawing controversy.
Finnish fur farm horror caught on video as industry fights ban
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» HELSINKI: Obese, infection-ridden foxes trapped in small cages; cubs feeding on their dead siblings: footage filmed by an animal rights group paints a shocking picture of fur farming in Finland.