Number of Grizzly Deaths Rises Sharply
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Seven were hit by trains or cars. Ten were killed illegally, often shot and left to die. Thirteen were killed by wildlife officials because they had menaced humans or had otherwise become a nuisance. One was killed in self-defense.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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Authorities are stepping up a sterilization and relocation program in a bid to curb a population explosion of Koala bears on a South Australian island where the cuddly mammals are literally eating themselves out of house and home.
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A recent outbreak of avian cholera was especially potent, killing about 15,000 birds.
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Natural disasters killed 76,806 people in 2003, three times the number of victims in 2002, a rise due in part to extremes in the global climate, the world's largest humanitarian body said on Thursday.
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Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, animals already threatened by hunting, a new study reports.
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Nepal's political transition marks sharp increases in poaching and trafficking of endangered species.
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Harbour porpoises are being killed in increasing numbers by bottlenose dolphins around British coasts.
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A sharp rise in poaching is placing some rhino populations at risk of extinction, a report says.
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Young males most at risk as Northern Ireland sees sharp rise in self-inflicted deaths.
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More than two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be killed off by 2050 &#151; including the entire population in Alaska &#151; because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
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A livestock trailer carrying goats tipped over, leaving more than 240 of the animals dead and creating a grisly scene that shook onlookers and officials alike.
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The number of violent crimes increased by a larger amount than expected last year, extending the first significant rise in murders and robberies in 15 years, according to an FBI report released today.
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Grizzly and black bears killed a majority of elk calves in northern Yellowstone National Park for the second year in a row, preliminary study results show.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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Thousands of bodies lay rotting and unidentified on lawns and streets of battered Sumatra island Wednesday and authorities called out bulldozers to dig mass graves, as the number killed in a mammoth earthquake and tsunami soared above 55,000 with tens of thousands still missing. The U.N. health agency warned that disease could double the toll yet again.
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As many as 122 species have disappeared since 1980, and 1,900 are in danger of becoming extinct.