Australian Wheat Farmers Brace for Huge Locust Plague
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Australia's wheat farmers, fresh from battling the country's worst drought in a century, are now threatened by a plague of locusts which have already begun to hatch from a sprawling "nursery" in the country's outback.
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afrol News, 17 September - The desert locust crisis in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Niger is &quot;expected to deteriorate over the next few weeks,&quot; and there was a serious risk that the Maghreb countries would be reinvaded by swarms from October onwards, FAO
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Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
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New swarms of crop-devouring locusts are on the move towards north-western Africa, the UN says.
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ROME  - A UN food agency made another urgent appeal Friday for money to buy pesticides and crop-dusting aircraft to combat locusts devouring crops in northwest Africa.
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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster &#151; thousands of acres of green grass, herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers are hopeful their quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can wreak havoc on pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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Locust swarms infesting Mauritania and other African nations could develop into a full-scale plague without additional foreign aid, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Thursday.
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Payments to Australia's drought-hit farmers could be linked to climate change schemes, under new plans.
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A PLAGUE of locusts has swarmed into Israel across the border from Egypt, threatening to devastate fields of crops in the countryâs agricultural heartland.
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The continent struggles to contain a locust swarm that a UN official says could be more dangerous than Darfur.
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Australia could expect more frequent droughts, heatwaves, rainstorms and strong winds because of greenhouse gas-induced climate change, the country's main science research body warned on Monday.
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The desert locust infestation that descended on West and Central Africa this year is likely to return in 2005 and officials will have to be better prepared to avoid major damage to crops, experts said on Monday.
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International health officials warned yesterday that the world was closer to its next pandemic - a potent mix of avian influenza and a human flu virus - and that Asia was likely to be its epicentre.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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BANGKOK A day after Thai and international officials confirmed the first probable human-to-human transmission of a virulent strain of avian influenza in this country, public health systems around the globe were scrambling to prepare for a possible pandemic
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Members of the UK poultry trade brace themselves for the impact of avian flu on business after the discovery of the H5N1 strain in Suffolk.