Suit: Lead ammo in carrion kills condors
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Advocates for the California condor sued state wildlife regulators for allowing lead hunting ammunition despite concerns that the rare birds can die after eating carcasses contaminated with the pellets.
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Five police officers and two employees of Peru's state-run coca company were shot to death in a southern jungle state on Saturday, authorities said.
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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.
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By JAN BARRY, STAFF WRITER  RINGWOOD  A trace amount of lead was found in a deer taken from a section of Ringwood State Park where lead-based paint waste was dumped decades ago.  Two other deer shot there in January had not been contaminated by lead, the U.S.
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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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A Florida diver shot a large grouper with a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear, investigators said on Monday.
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DONG HA, Vietnam  - In the same week that dozens of countries declared plans to ban cluster munitions, a boy was killed by the explosion of a steel ball he picked up and threw while tending livestock.
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It is one of the oldest conflicts between man and beast: farmers killing marauders such as wolves, lynxes, lions and leopards to defend their livestock from the predators.
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SANTIAGO, Chile - 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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The first wild condor chick to take flight in California in 22 years sailed into the skies over Ventura County last month. The young bird was hatched April 9 near Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.
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Bones found at a prehistoric burial site indicate they belonged to victims of an Neolithic Age massacre, say scientists.
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Seventy-nine miners killed in a fatal gas explosion at Daping Coal Mine in Xinmi City, central China&#39;s Henan Province, last week have been identified, said information from
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MEXICO CITY - Officials in northern Mexico are offering rewards to people who kill hordes of rats that dozens of cats could not conquer. Citizens who have the stomach for it can make $.40 for each rodent they kill in Guadalupe y Calvo, Mayor Jesus Velazquez told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday...
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The five soldiers who killed Maria Elena Rios in a hillside slum of the city of Medellin said she was a guerrilla who died in combat. After a swift investigation, the army closed the case.
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JASPER, Alta. (CP) - A man from British Columbia is facing charges after a large bull elk was illegally shot and killed in Jasper National Park.
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By JOHN ARNOLD Journal Staff Writer  A Santa Fe County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a young mountain lion Tuesday night in a populated neighborhood south of Santa Fe.   But state wildlife officials are unsure whether the cougar is the same one seen recently near downtown.
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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.