Killer shark to be destroyed in Australia
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Australian police and wildlife officers have been ordered to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on.
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Two great white sharks attacked and killed a surfer while his friends watched in horror Thursday off a popular beach in the southern Australian city of Adelaide, authorities said.
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Australian environmentalists urge state and federal authorities to do more to help grey nurse sharks.
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By Megha Satyanarayana  MONTEREY -- To right the wrongs of one of the largest poaching stings in Northern California, the native habitat of   465 illegally sold leopard sharks will be restored by fines totaling nearly $1 million, federal prosecutors said Monday.
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The great white shark, traditionally seen as an avid consumer of human flesh, is to be protected from the people it terrifies, an international wildlife conference decided yesterday.
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Sharks killed four people and bit 58  others around the world in 2006, a comparatively dull year for  dangerous encounters between the two species, scientists said  in their annual shark attack census on Tuesday.
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More than 60 countries agreed Sunday to ban the killing of sharks for their fins in the Atlantic Ocean, a move that conservationists hope will increase protection of threatened species around the world.
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A savage crocodile attack on a group of campers in northern Australia has sparked renewed calls for the partial lifting of a three-decade hunting ban aimed at saving the animals from extinction.
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CAIRNS, Australia  - A 38-year-old Australian man bled to death Saturday after he was rescued from the jaws of a shark while spearfishing on the Great Barrier Reef, authorities said.
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Near 100 whales and dolphines have commited mysterious &quot;mass beaching suicide&quot; from last week on Australia&#39;s south coast.
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A great white shark that killed a teenage surfer off the southern Australian city of Adelaide and has been seen stalking city beaches since the attack will be hunted down and destroyed, authorities said on Friday.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - A South African shark
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Next Thursday, Hugh Edmeades of Christie's auction house will bring down the gavel in Monaco's famed Oceanographic Museum and Aquarium. When he closes the bidding, a sinuous shark recently discovered thousands of miles away in Indonesian waters will have a new scientific name. And hundreds of...
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Australian dive operators said Friday they don't think tourists will be scared off by the low-budget shark nightmare movie "Open Water," which is based on actual events that took place off the country's Great Barrier Reef six years ago.
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A great white shark which killed a teenage surfer should be hunted down and destroyed, officials say. But the dead boy&#39;s father has said he doesn&#39;t want the creature to be killed.
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Sydney - Australian police and wildlife officers were ordered on Friday to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on.
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"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, the Australian naturalist killed by a stingray on Monday, was filmed removing a poisonous barb from his chest just before he died, according to news reports. Irwin's manager John Stainton, who was among the television crew on the reef, described the footage of his friend dying as "terrible," The Associated Press reported.