Hunt stepped up for killer shark in Australia
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ADELAIDE, Australia - The hunt for the great white shark that killed a teenage surfer here this week was stepped up Saturday despite an appeal by his family not to kill the giant predator.
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Sharks will migrate into Antarctic waters if warming continues, threatening marine animals, scientists warn.
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Authorities investigating a fatal shark attack off Cairns in far-north Queensland say it is too early to say what species of shark was involved.
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Sydney - Australian police and wildlife officers were ordered on Friday to destroy a large shark which killed a teenage surfer in a savage attack as his horrified schoolfriends looked on.
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A fisherman fueled by vodka caught a 1.3-meter (4-foot) shark and wrestled it onto a jetty on Australia's south coast, suffering only small tear marks in his trousers, media reports said on Friday.
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The scalloped hammerhead shark is being pushed towards the brink of extinction, say experts.
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Australia on Wednesday urged Japanese whalers and environmental activists heading for a showdown in the Southern Ocean to show restraint, warning deaths could occur if anything went wrong.
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Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday.
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A savage crocodile attack on a group of campers in northern Australia has sparked renewed calls for the partial lifting of a three-decade hunting ban aimed at saving the animals from extinction.
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The government has unveiled the latest weapon in Australia's battle against poachers who haunt its Antarctic fishing grounds, a high-speed patrol boat equipped with twin .50 calibre machine guns.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - A new Australian patrol ship armed with two machine-guns will scour the country's territorial waters in a "deadly serious" mission to stop illegal fishermen from taking Australia's fish, officials announced Friday.
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toothfish, dubbed the &quot;white gold&quot; of the sea, which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching. other threatened species,&quot; the US-based National Environment Trust (NET) said in a report on Thursday.
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Dead stingrays with their tails cut off are found in Australia, amid fears Steve Irwin fans may be avenging his death.
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A great white shark which killed a teenage surfer should be hunted down and destroyed, officials say. But the dead boy&#39;s father has said he doesn&#39;t want the creature to be killed.
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Authorities said they would kill the shark that tore apart a young surfer near an Australian beach as his friends tried to save him by beating the fish with oars.
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Authorities said Friday they would kill the shark that tore apart a young surfer near a popular south Australian beach as his friends reportedly tried to save him by beating the animal with oars.
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TV personality Steve Irwin's death by stingray may be spurring some fans to maim the fish, ten of which were found killed this week off Australia.