Measures Aim to Stem Middle East Bird Slaughter
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Conservationists launched a three-year project on Tuesday to protect millions of migrating birds which are indiscriminately targeted by hunters in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Southeast Asian countries have approved a plan to combat bird flu that aims to curb the spread of the disease and reduce the likelihood it will lead to a more deadly human pandemic.
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By Jason Kolnos, Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.  Dec. 15--ORLEANS -- Local parks officials are considering an  unprecedented solution to their piping plover predicament: Get federal and  state regulators to ease rules protecting the threatened species.
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Illegal trappers on Cyprus killed more than half a million protected birds this fall for sale at local restaurants, conservationists said Thursday.
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The government is determined to eradicate bird flu, Environment Secretary David Miliband says.
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Wildlife experts from around 60 countries gathered in Scotland Monday to push for an agreement to help save rare, migratory birds of prey.
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Israeli investigators have found preliminary signs of bird flu in dead chickens from a kindergarten petting zoo, an Agriculture Ministry official said on Thursday.
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Britain is expected to complete the slaughter of nearly 160,000 turkeys to contain the country's first outbreak in poultry of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, as officials urged the public not to panic.
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People can halt the decline of many birds by making their gardens more wildlife-friendly, says a charity.
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EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt  - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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LANCASTER, Pennsylvania  - A Pennsylvania sportsmen's club was fined $400 on Friday for cruelty to animals after using live turkeys as targets, prosecutors said.
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In 28 years of raising chickens, Virgil Shockley has had his share of worries, from bird disease to pollution. But nothing prepared him for the latest concern sweeping the poultry industry: Local farms could be deemed terrorist targets by the U.S. government.
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Up to 160,000 birds may be culled as experts try to identify which strain of bird flu killed 2,600 turkeys in Suffolk.
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More than 200 European bird species, including 70 in the UK, are under threat, a study warns.
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Â· Zoo birds culled after complaints about noise Â· Horrified locals side with animal rights activists
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Hong Kong authorities may ban the slaughtering of poultry by retailers in a bid to prevent a bird (avian) flu pandemic. The WHO has warned that the next global pandemic may come from a mutated bird flu virus.
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Science & environment: RSPB calls for urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and avoid 'calamitous' impact on birds