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Indian pride as Asiatic lions roar back
AFP, Published on 09/12/2025
» GIR NATIONAL PARK — A powerful roar rocked the forest before the silhouette of a lioness appeared at an Indian reserve, a potent image of how conservation efforts have brought the creatures back from the brink.
Pillaged Ivory Coast nature reserve on the mend after crisis decade
AFP, Published on 31/10/2025
» COMOE NATIONAL PARK (IVORY COAST) - Forest ranger Daouda Bamba is in no doubt about who the apex predator is in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, ravaged by war and unrest between 2002 and 2011.
Pakistan confiscates 18 lions kept as pets in crackdown after attack
Reuters, Published on 07/07/2025
» LAHORE, Pakistan - Eighteen lions kept illegally as pets have been confiscated in Pakistan's Punjab region, authorities said on Monday as they launched a crackdown after one escaped from a house and attacked a woman and two children.
Cicadas re-emerge in US after 17 years
AFP, Published on 01/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - The last time these thrumming, red-eyed bugs burrowed out of the ground across America’s suburbs and woodlands was the early summer of 2008.
Civilian massacre in DR Congo as clashes spread
AFP, Published on 24/10/2023
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - With 20 civilians reported killed by militants linked to the Islamic State group and rebel combat spreading closer to the provincial capital Goma, eastern DR Congo appeared in turmoil on Tuesday.
Recovery underway in tornado-hit Mississippi, 25 dead
AFP, Published on 26/03/2023
» ROLLING FORK, US: Mississippi started clean-up operations on Sunday after a destructive tornado tore across the state, killing at least 25, shredding houses and largely wiping out the small town of Rolling Fork.
Art show highlights destructive ties between Man and Nature
AFP, Published on 23/03/2023
» JOHANNESBURG: A lioness towers over a seemingly dead hunter, her paws pinning his body to the ground.
Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» BUKOBA (TANZANIA) - Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades.
Tanzania pays tearful tribute to plane crash victims
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» BUKOBA, Tanzania: Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute Monday to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades.
Passenger plane plunges into Lake Victoria in Tanzania
AFP, Published on 06/11/2022
» DAR ES SALAAM - A plane carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania early on Sunday due to bad weather shortly before it was due to land in the northwestern city of Bukoba, police said, with efforts under way to rescue those onboard.