Government scraps species law changes
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday he has scrapped a proposal that critics said would protect fewer rare plants and animals from extinction.
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Britain outlawed fox hunting in England and Wales on Thursday as elected legislators won a dramatic standoff with the House of Lords to ban a popular country sport that is despised by many urbanites.
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The government is set to abolish the requirement for fertility clinics to consider the need for a father when deciding whether to offer IVF.
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Most of the western Great Lakes population of gray wolves was removed from the Endangered Species Act on Monday.  (c) 2007 Bismarck Tribune. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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TOPEKA, Kansas  - The Kansas Board of Education on Tuesday threw out science standards deemed hostile to evolution, undoing the work of Christian conservatives in the ongoing battle over what to teach U.S. public school students about the origins of life.
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Hunting with hounds will be illegal across England and the Wales from February next year after the rare used Parliament Act was invoked Thursday to end years of wrangling and bring the hunting bill into law.
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An attempt to stop scientific research into human-animal "hybrid" embryos fails in the House of Lords.
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The government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list the beluga sturgeon six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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The European Union has reversed a plan that would have required Britain and Ireland to phase out imperial measurements in favor of the metric system.
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A German zoo has scrapped plans to break up homosexual penguin couples following protests from gay rights groups.
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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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ASHLAND, Ore.  - A Bush administration decision to  eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered  U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to  protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - A bill that would have made California the first U.S. state to mandate neutering and spaying of dogs and cats was withdrawn by its author on Wednesday in the final legislative stages after fierce opposition from dog breeders.
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Burma&#39;s military regime has scrapped a law that gave intelligence officers loyal to deposed premier Khin Nyunt widespread powers, state media reported on Friday.
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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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The European Commission abandoned plans on Tuesday to close off fishing areas in 2005 for severely depleted species such as cod, in the face of bitter opposition from EU governments such as Britain and France.
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The government says there are no plans to make it compulsory for all UK residents to be on the national DNA database.