Government scraps species law reforms
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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The government scaled back the influence of its embattled minister for AIDS policy after a group of international scientists labeled South Africa's program inefficient and immoral and called for her to be fired.
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Recently the British House of Commons has adopted a legislation to ban fox hunting in England and Wales.
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Oman&#39;s Arabian Oryx sanctuary this week  became the first site to be removed from UNESCO&#39;s World  Heritage list after the rare species dwindled and the  government cut the park size by 90 percent.
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Britain's first fleet of tuk-tuks have been run off the roads by "archaic legislation", the owner said Saturday.
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The risk a power cut is posing to exotic species at Birmingham's National Sea Life centre has receded, say managers.
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Fox-hunting in England and Wales faced extinction as a defiant House of Commons prepared to invoke special powers to ram through a ban on the controversial blood sport.
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A sleaze watchdog is to be scaled back in a shake-up of the way local councillors' conduct is regulated.
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A proposal for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary is defeated at the International Whaling Commission's meeting.
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IT problems abort pilot The government has scrapped its carrot and stick id card for yoofs after realising that the costs of developing its computer system were beginning to outweigh the benefits it could deliver.â¦
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Save the species, save a buck. Landowners frustrated by the Endangered Species Act might get a carrot instead of the stick under a proposed revision of the law that would offer them tax incentives to give the critters a home. That approach is emerging as a narrower alternative to a comprehensive overhaul of the endangered species law, a priority for Republicans before Democrats took control of Congress this year.
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Parliament failed Tuesday to agree on constitutional changes and election reforms.
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The world&#39;s biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, the recognized global watchdog on endangered species said Wednesday in announcing its annual list of most vulnerable wildlife.
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New laws outlawing ageism at work have come into effect throughout the UK.
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GRANTS PASS -- A petition from environmentalists to put four species of lamprey -- jawless fish resembling eels that swim with salmon -- under protection of the Endangered Species Act has been rejected again by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Blog: The species was changed. But it's controversial.
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Â· Government abandons 10 years of oppositionÂ· Policy shift in drive to build 3m homes