Two Andean condors set free in Chile
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Two Andean condors, considered the world's largest flying bird, were set free on Tuesday in the Andes foothills just east of Santiago by veterinarians of the Santiago Metropolitan Zoo.
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was being flown out of Chile on Saturday to face charges of human rights abuse and corruption seven years after fleeing Peru for Japan.
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By Ma Lie  XI'AN: Twenty ibises that were bred in captivity were released into the wild yesterday in Ningshan County, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, reflecting the progress that efforts to breed and protect the endangered species have made.
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SANTIAGO  - A Chilean judge ordered former dictator Augusto Pinochet to stand trial on murder and kidnap charges linked to his role in Operation Condor, a conspiracy of 1970s South American dictatorships to eliminate opponents.
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Galapagos park rangers on Monday ended a strike that had blocked tourist sites in the exotic islands for more than two weeks after the Ecuadorean government accepted their demands for a change in park leadership.
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A wild-born condor chick has taken flight -- the first wild chick to fly in California in 22 years. The chick slowly began the process of fledging (first flight) by leaving the nest in early September and
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Â· Chile to deport former Peru president to stand trial Â· Human rights group celebrates unique victory
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One recent summer's day, Ruth Moreno and her family were out walking in northern Chile when they came across an animal's snout sticking out of the ground, desperately sniffing for air.
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By Eduardo Orozco LIMA, Peru  - A Peruvian journalist seized by mobof armed villagers in a remote Andean jungle, was released onThursday four days after he was abducted, beaten and tied to apost for supporting a copper mining project, police said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Chile's Supreme Court Thursday  stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from  prosecution in a notorious human rights case, raising hopes of  victims that he may finally face trial for abuses during his  17-year regime.
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Two Italian soldiers kidnapped in Afghanistan are freed during a military operation, Italy's defence ministry says.
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Two Chinese engineers who were abducted in a tense Pakistani border region have been released and are now in the safe custody of tribal elders, officials said Sunday.
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While a new environmental report gives a gloomy assessment of human management of the Earth, buried among its charts and graphs is one Andean success story that bucks the trend of a decline in wildlife species: the vicuna, a smaller, fleet-footed cousin of the camel.
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Scientists have found two separate breeding pairs of palila nearly a year after the endangered birds were reintroduced to the northern slopes of Mauna Kea.
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The Supreme Court in Chile has ruled that the country&#39;s former military ruler, August Pinochet, should be stripped of his immunity from prosecution.
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The world&#39;s &#39;flagship species&#39; on land and sea, whales and elephants, won a reprieve on Tuesday from commercial exploitation at a major conservation conference in Thailand&#39;s capital.
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The Denver Zoo has a newly hatched Andean condor, only the second condor to hatch at a zoo anywhere in the world over the past year, zoo officials said Thursday.The Denver condor, a male, hatched May 13.