Loose Lion Terrorizes Village in Brazil
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Police were searching on Friday for a lion that reportedly has terrorized a small village in northeastern Brazil for a week.    Residents lock their doors when darkness falls in Santa Barbara, about 700 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A lion attacked a man who jumped into the animal's enclosure and shouted "Jesus will save you!" at the big cat Wednesday at the zoo in Taiwan's capital.
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HELSINKI, Nov 5 (IPS) - In Brazil rubber tappers living in the Amazon  forest are locked in deadly conflicts with timber loggers and big  agribusiness companies, with up to ten activists killed every  year, NGOs working in the country say.
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One vagrant died and three were badly beaten in overnight attacks in Brazil&#39;s biggest city of Sao Paulo, raising the number of victims of a suspected death squad to 14 in four days.
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A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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A lion mauled a man who jumped into its cage Wednesday at a zoo in Taiwan&#39;s capital, yelling religious slogans. Cable TV stations captured the attack in which the man apparently escaped without being seriously injured.
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A neglected Romanian lion has been rescued and shipped to the Born Free Center at Shamwari Game Reserve in South Africa.
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BLAIRMORE, Alta. (CP) - A woman who stumbled upon a grizzly bear sow and two cubs in a wilderness area of southwestern Alberta was mauled Thursday but managed to escape.
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RANCHI, India  - A pack of jackals prowling for food attacked villages in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, injuring at least 35 people, officials said on Thursday.
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A massive herd of animals thought to have been wiped out by decades of civil war in Southern Sudan has survived against the odds and could be one of the largest migrations of large mammals on the planet.
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By POLLY SUMMAR Journal Staff Writer  Zozobra may have been burned Thursday night, but there will be gloom on Escalante Street until a marauding mountain lion is caught.
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CAETES, Brazil  - A woman emerges from the thick  scrub with a bundle of firewood on her back and walks down a  dirt path to her small farm in Caetes, a poor and remote  district in northeast Brazil.
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By TALES AZZONI  SAO PAULO, Brazil - The theft of a rare Amazon monkey from a Brazilian zoo could harm biologists' efforts to repopulate the endangered species, zoo officials said Wednesday.
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An explosion of soyabean farming in South America is threatening huge areas of forest and grassland containing some of the world's richest and most diverse wildlife, a leading conservation group said on Thursday.
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The bald eagle is out of the woods but other birds of prey are in trouble.
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ANAPU, Brazil -- About 2,000 soldiers headed yesterday to a lawless Amazon rain forest region where an American nun was shot to death last weekend amid escalating violence between peasants and loggers vying for the area's vast natural resource riches.
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CHANDIGARH, India  - Twenty-one lions are dying in   a zoo in north India after a cross-breeding experiment to boost   the park's attractions went disastrously wrong.