Rare turtles up for sale along with Malaysian island
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MALACCA, Malaysia  - For sale: a plain little island, overgrown by shrubs, offering a scrap of beach and sitting in one of the world's busiest sea lanes.
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Malaysia hopes to obtain special dogs trained in Ireland to sniff out bootlegged DVDs as part of growing efforts to combat movie piracy in a country accused of being among the world's top producers of illegal discs, officials said Wednesday.
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The mass nestings of leatherback turtles on Malaysia's beaches was once one of nature's great spectacles but since 2000, not a single baby leatherback has scampered to the sea.
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By Kathleen Casey, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  May 28--There's only one beach left for the leatherback sea turtle, one nesting area that hasn't been built up with condos and hotels.
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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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Tens of thousands of artefacts salvaged from a sunken ship off Java's coast in Indonesia are to be auctioned.
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Norwegian researchers on a remote Arctic island have recovered rare fossil remains of two giant marine reptiles, one of them reminiscent of the fabled Loch Ness monster.
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A two-headed turtle captured by a turtle collector is a rare example of a conjoined-twin birth, its owner said.
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The turtle is one of the longest-lived creatures Earth has known, but at least half of all turtle species are now in serious danger of extinction.
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The critically endangered Sumatran tiger will become extinct unless Indonesia takes swift action to clamp down on the illegal sale of the big cats' body parts across the Southeast Asian country, conservationists say
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Malaysia has set aside 60 hectares of land off the east coast state of Terengganu to help conserve its dwindling number of endangered sea turtles.
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Sea turtles are spawning in record numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's environmental watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Multiple nests of one of the UK's rarest insects are found on the Scottish islands.
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HONG KONG - Turtles are considered a symbol of good luck in Hong Kong, but try telling that to the taxi driver whose car was hit and damaged by a big one that plummeted from a high-rise building.    The pet turtle climbed through an apartment window on Thursday and fell more than 10 stories onto the taxi's roof, which was scratched and dented, police spokesman Anson Lo told The Associated Press on Friday...
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State conservation officials have proposed setting a 10-week hunting season for snapping turtles, while establishing both size and bag limits to protect the reptile that was named the state turtle last year.
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A rare turtle has hatched at the Tennessee Aquarium, one of only three places in the United States that display the endangered species, aquarium officials announced.
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A five-year survey of fish for sale at ports across the archipelago has revealed at least 20 previously unknown species, according to the Australian team that led the study.See photos >>