Snakes now attacking calamity-stricken areas
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AFTER hitting by a series of typhoons for the past two weeks, people in General Nakar, Quezon are now complaining of the presence of the Philippine Cobra and other snakes in the area.
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To count the dead they ride motorbikes, charter planes and wade through snake-infested rivers.
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A record number of attacks have seen two bird of prey species wiped out in a part of the Peak District.
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Rural roads are being traveled by more and more people, leading to an increase in fatal wildlife-related crashes.
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Dr. Harindra Joseph S. Fernando studies the human activities that make a natural disaster even more deadly.
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NEW YORK - Firefighters responding to a burning New York City home found more than smoke and flames. Inside a set of plastic containers, they discovered five poisonous snakes.
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By AJ HOSTETLER  About 220 million years ago, two reptiles gliding among the trees were apparently blown off course, falling and drowning in a nearby lake that is now the site of a quarry in southern Virginia.
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A series of increasingly brazen attacks have deepened the sense of growing mayhem as the January elections approach.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.
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Winds gusting up to 110 miles an hour knocked down trees and damaged structures.
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The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forest soils is apparent from a new study.
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A wave of poaching has alarmed state and federal wildlife officials in several Western states.
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Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.
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Wildfires are flaring bigger and hotter in Alaska, the northern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Bighorn sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears in Glacier National Park, along with deer and marsh rabbits in the Florida Keys, face a housing crisis.
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Angler lands 2ft snakehead amid invasion fears A UK angler has provoked a piscine killer invasion alert by landing a 2ft snakehead in a Lincolnshire river - the first recorded example in British waterways of the highly-invasive southeast Asian species which will reportedly eat anything which crosses its path.â¦
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Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
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The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos, as rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control the area.