Island hedgehog cull is suspended
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Scottish Natural Heritage is to transport hedgehogs from the Western Isles instead of killing the animals.
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By Sandra Tan, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 20--The Henslow's sparrow prefers to stay hidden.   But the threatened species has been found in Lancaster, and its presence has stopped a developer from moving forward with its plan for a major housing development.
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A fifth animal has been found to have contracted the bluetongue disease in Suffolk, officials say.
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At least 80 whales and dolphins have died after beaching themselves on a remote island between the Australian mainland and the country&#39;s island state of Tasmania.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says.
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A company specialising in stag and hen weekends suspends trips amid safety fears.
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A key environmental panel said on Wednesday backers of a huge energy project off Russia's Sakhalin island should consider suspending operations while studies continue on survival of a rare whale species.
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British agricultural authorities issued  a warning to the public on Tuesday after a bat that eluded the  island nation's strict controls tested positive for a strain  that can infect humans.
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By Peter MacMahon Scottish Goverment Editor  THE company behind controversial plans to site the world's largest onshore wind farm in the Western Isles last night strongly denied that pressing ahead with the project would breach European rules on protecting wildlife.
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German police called to investigate unusual noises in the garden of a Bremen house late on Monday were surprised to find that a pair of amorous hedgehogs were to blame.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 30--For the past week, residents of the Bay Area have been transfixed by the plight of the two injured humpback whales that got lost in the fresh waters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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How the changing landscape of the UK's urban areas is driving hedgehogs out of our cities.
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Russia and Japan banned British poultry imports as Britain neared the end of a cull of 160,000 turkeys after the nation's first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in farmed poultry.
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By Elizabeth Bluemink, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 8--The Army Corps of Engineers this week suspended a wetlands permit for the Rock Creek and Big Hurrah gold mines under construction near Nome.
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A badger cull is proposed as part of the fight against bovine TB, but animal group are opposing the move.
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Two temporary control zones around farms in Surrey were lifted after animals there tested negative for foot and mouth disease, the environment ministry said Tuesday.
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A fishing town has banned the sport of conger cuddling after an animal activist complained.