Australia's battle against wild boars
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Wild pigs are destroying farmland and forest. Controlling them is becoming serious business.
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More than 3,000 firefighters are battling to contain some of Australia's worst wildfires in 70 years,  as flames fanned by strong winds threatened homes in Victoria state.
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In the midst of Australia's largest city, a rare colony of fairy penguins is being replenished by birds bred in the local zoo after coming under threat from cats, dogs and jetski-riding hooligans.
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Three Australian pig hunters face 58 criminal charges after a wild hunting spree in which they drove their truck through fences and gates on 11 farms and were pursued by a farmer in an aircraft and police.
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ZAGVOZD, Croatia  - The state has made them a  protected species, but shepherds say Croatia's wolves are  living up to their storybook reputation as the bad guys.
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Supporters are beginning their High Court challenge to the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales.
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5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.
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MELBOURNE -- Maybe no man is an island, but this underpopulated Pacific isle called Australia -- 20 million strong -- is riding on one man. Riding for dear life because glowering yet flowering Lleyton Hewitt is the last horse in the perpetually lost race for the Australian Open title.
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Sydney - Australia&#39;s koalas, once a threatened species, are now growing so fast in some areas that wildlife authorities are putting them on the pill.
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ATHENS -- As you saw yesterday, they&#39;re fighting back now. Not with the world, but with themselves. When you&#39;ve been humiliated at your own game, ridiculed and laughed at back home and can&#39;t intimidate Australia anymore, someone&#39;s bound to mope.
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LONDON - Defeated in Parliament, British hunting supporters went to court Friday seeking to uphold their right to chase foxes. The Countryside Alliance, which staged mass demonstrations in the losing battle
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A 5-year-old girl saved her infant sister from a possible attack by an Australian wild dog - called a dingo - on an island where the animals savaged a 9-year-old boy to death three years ago.
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Australians try to tame the giant.
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Wild populations of Australian dingoes may go extinct within 50 years unless steps are taken to prevent crossbreeding with domestic dogs, scientists and conservationists say.
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ANIMAL rights campaigners today claimed Japan has illegally killed hundreds of whales in an Australian sanctuary, and launched legal action aimed at stopping the hunt.
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Tens of thousands of iconic Australian creatures including koalas and kangaroos may have died in fires that swept through vast tracts of southern Australia this week, environmentalists say.
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The state of Louisiana is on the skirmish lines of a growing fight waged by animal-rights groups, lawmakers and courts over the treatment of animals in relation to sports.