Zoos Targets for Exotic Animal Thieves
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LONDON -- Missing marmosets, abducted alligators, purloined penguins: Thieves are targeting Europe's zoos and safari parks to supply animal collectors who want to own ever more exotic species.
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to free up commerce in some species at international talks starting yesterday in Bangkok.
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A mayor in eastern Germany has filed charges against workers at his local zoo for shooting animals and selling them as meat.
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The great white shark, African rhinos and the American bald eagle are among the animals and fauna that will take center stage at an international conference on regulating trade in endangered species that opens Saturday.
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The deadly tiger escape at the San Francisco Zoo could prove to be a costly blow to an institution that has come under fire repeatedly in just the past few years over the deaths of two elephants and the mauling of a zookeeper.
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Carved up for the dinner table, ground up for medicine or simply sold off as exotic pets, Asia&#39;s endangered species are at the core of a lucrative smuggling trade that shows little sign of easing off.
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Zookeepers across the country are Friday carrying out the challenging task of counting all their animals in a stock-taking exercise that will list every aardvark to zebra in their collection.
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Officials in the central German city of Erfurt called for stronger laws Monday to protect the rights of animals amid allegations that workers at the city's zoo killed some goats, sheep, pigs and other beasts to sell them for their meat.
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Fish and wildlife departments around the country are on the hunt &#151; for more wardens.
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By Frank Urquhart  A MAJOR crackdown on the "barbaric" and illegal sport of hare coursing has been identified as one of the main priorities for a pioneering taskforce, established to combat wildlife crime in the north-east of Scotland.
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Officials on Sunday were trying to determine why a zookeeper killed by a jaguar had opened the door to the animal's enclosure when zoo policies ban staff members from entering exhibits when big cats are inside.
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Police sent to investigate a traffic accident found more than they expected - a small zoo.
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Zoo visitors risk infections by not paying heed to hygiene after touching animals, research suggests.
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The meat from wild animals killed illegally is being sold in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, a report has said.
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Thieves armed with wire cutters and cages are snatching endangered species from zoos and private collections around the world, according to authorities.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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By DILIP GANGULY  CALCUTTA, India - Poachers seeking to bag a Royal Bengal tiger in the Sunderbans reserve are encountering a unique new security measure to keep them away: hundreds of crocodiles that have been released in the mangrove forest.