Violin Bow Plucked From Endangered Wood
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By ARTHUR MAX  THE HAGUE, Netherlands - If you think the problem of endangered species is all about tigers, elephants and orangutans, ask a violinist where he gets his bow.
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Protection for a "musical tree" stops short of requiring violinists to carry permits for their rare wood bows.
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Chemically treated wood that enhanced the sound of the instrument may have been used in violins made by the Italian masters Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu.
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The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
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Sheltered from the frantic sounds of a city desperate to modernize, Yang Fuxi sits serenely in his workshop in central Beijing, whittling a stick of bamboo into a hunter's bow, just as his ancestors did 300 years before.
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NORTH VERNON, Ind. -- A 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry deer.
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Archery. Now we're getting back to Olympic basics.
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A ban on hunting critically endangered black rhinoceros has been lifted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, The Telegraph reported.
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A prehistoric hunter known as Oetzi whose well-preserved body was found on a snow-covered mountain in the Alps died more than 5,000 years ago after being struck in the back by an arrow, scientists said in an article published Wednesday.
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By CHARLES HUTZLER  BEIJING - A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is effectively extinct, an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of its Yangtze River habitat.
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Violinists will not need permits for their pau brasil bows, after a compromise at a meeting on endangered species.
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A composer and koto player reinvents an ancient Japanese stringed instrument by way of an Apple G4 PowerBook and tightly focused beams of light. By Alexander Gelfand.
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A violin worth about 2.5m euros ($3.4m) is returned to its owner in Vienna after being stolen last month.
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Police have seized thousands of branches of an endangered Guatemalan scented fir species used for Christmas trees in a clampdown to protect it against extinction, police said on Tuesday.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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At a Christie&#39;s auction held in New York, a guitar once used by the Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon, fetched a staggering $570,000.
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Â· Cargo of abandoned vessel destined for restaurants  Â· Illegal trade drives species closer to extinction.