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ALL ABOUT MONARCH BUTTERFLIES -
Insecta Inspecta World
The Monarch Butterfly is the king of the insect world.
Even though
they are small creatures, they do phenomenal things...
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LAST CHANCE FOR THE RIGHT WHALES - Kesta Allen
The Northern Right
Whale is on the edge of extinction, scientists say.
A very small number were seen
during the winter of...
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FOX HUNTING: A CONTROVERSIAL BRITISH TRADITION
Wilfredo Fernandes
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necessary method of pest control
or a cruel tradition to be abolished?
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DOLPHINS IN DISTRESS - Sara Hall
Up in the mountains
of Idaho, people every year watch for the return of a native who
jumps waterfalls and swims 950 miles of rapids to get home.
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CROCODILES IN THE ARCTIC? - Nigel
Cooper
A
study carried out in the Canadian Arctic has confirmed that ninety million
years ago the Arctic was a hot swamp-like environment.
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SOCKEYE SALMON CLOSE TO EXTINCTION -
CNN Website
Up in the mountains
of Idaho, people every year watch for the return of a native who
jumps waterfalls and swims 950 miles of rapids to get home.
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ALL ABOUT GIANT PANDAS -
Robert Kent
Can cloning save the
Giant Panda? A new
debate in conservation
begins in China as the panda is a national symbol...
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SELLING IVORY -
Simon Baines
Elephants use tusks for
stripping trees, moving objects, fighting
and display. Humans have other uses for tusks or ivory,
such as, piano keys and...
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ALL ABOUT POLAR BEARS -
Think in English
Learn about these fantastic
Arctic creatures that have
co-existed
with humans
for 30,000
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THE GOLDEN PARAKEETS -
Endangered Creatures Website
Some
Brazilians have suggested that the golden parakeet should be
adopted as their national bird because its coloring is the same as
the national flag...
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ALL ABOUT TIGERS -
US
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Website
Everything you wanted to know about these
fantastic creatures,
the largest of all cats and
one of the biggest and most fearsome predators in the
world...
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ALL ABOUT RED-TAILED PARROTS -
Endangered Creatures Website
Famous
in Brazil as the
"Papagaio da Cara Roxa", this red-tailed amazon parrot is in danger.
Breeding them
in captivity has reduced their population...
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ALL ABOUT VICUÑAS -
Endangered Creatures Website
Turning
a vicuña's
coat
into commercially valuable cloth
would not only help the local people,
it might also help secure
the future of this species...
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ALL ABOUT KOALAS -
The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF)
How do they live? How do they communicate? Like humans, koalas live in societies
so they need to be able to come into contact with other koalas...
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RUSSIAN BROWN BEARS -
Gary Striker
The
brown bears of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula are among the
largest of the world’s brown bears. Their attractiveness to
trophy hunters...
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