Rare vulture to be flown to Mongolia
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The next time you take a Thai Airways flight to China, a passenger with a wingspan of 9.2 feet and a taste for rotting carcasses may also be on board. The country's national carrier announced Wednesday that it will transport a juvenile cinereous vulture to Beijing on March 21 to help return the rare bird to its natural environment in Mongolia.
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Cambodian conservationists have found Southeast Asia's only known breeding colony of slender-billed vultures -- one of the world's most threatened birds.
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Do not approach a 'very large bird' called Emmy One of the world's largest birds, a Ruppell's Griffin Vulture called Emmy, is on the loose in Bedfordshire after escaping from the English School of Falconry on Wednesday.â¦
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The senior elephant keeper at Whipsnade Zoo describes the arrival of the latest addition to their herd of rare Asian elephants
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A zoo in the Gulf has bred a bird which is threatened by the fast pace of development in the region.
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China has uncovered the  skeletal remains of a gigantic, surprisingly bird-like  dinosaur, which has been classed as a new species.
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Science & environment: Body parts of the critically endangered animal are being sold openly in Indonesia, says report
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By CHRIS BRUMMITT JAKARTA, Indonesia - The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task - to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction.
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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The rare chiru, once extensively poached for its prized wool, appears to be increasing its population thanks to conservation efforts by Chinese officials and Tibetan locals.
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By CHRIS BRUMMITT  JAKARTA, Indonesia - The first Sumatran rhino born in captivity in more than 100 years is headed to Indonesia on Tuesday with a single task - to breed and help save the endangered species from extinction.
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The Chinese crested tern, a rare sea bird whose eggs are prized by some as a delicacy, is likely to be extinct in five years if authorities do not step up protection efforts, a conservation group said Friday.
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Max the stork, currently the oldest animal being tracked by satellite, is flying north after a remarkably short winter sojourn in southern Spain, a natural history museum in Switzerland said Wednesday.
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Australia's island state of Tasmania risks losing its status as a &quot;Noah's Ark&quot; for rare species with the discovery that foxes have probably begun breeding there, environmentalists have warned.
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Helicopters flights are used to count endangered orang-utans in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo.
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...
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GUANGZHOU, China - In southern China, it doesnât matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it walks, wriggles or jumps, itâs good enough for the pot.