Anthrax Kills 18 Hippos in Ugandan National Park
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a government official said on Saturday.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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An organism that may have played a part in killing thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the last five decades and in thwarting repopulation efforts has been isolated in a lab and found in struggling bighorn herds in the wild, biologists say.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a controversial practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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Rwanda, Uganda and DR Congo are launching a project to improve security for the great apes.
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Tourist boat rides will resume on Monday in a Ugandan national park hit by an anthrax outbreak that has killed about 180 hippos in the last three months, officials said.
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Two people in southeastern Romania are being treated in hospital for anthrax, an animal disease which can be transmitted to humans, health officials said on Monday.
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An airborne biologist and his team have found the remains of large-scale elephant slaughters, evidence of a major poaching problem on the borders of a central African wildlife park.See photos >>Watch video >>
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A previously unknown elephant herpes virus killed the Woodland Park Zoo's youngest Asian elephant, zoo officials said Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- Recent outbreaks of ebola among people in Africa also killed thousands of gorillas, a species already
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Nearly 200 hippopotamuses are dead after an anthrax outbreak in western Uganda. Wildlife officials in the East African nation said Tuesday 194 Hippos had died In Queen Elizabeth National Park since July.
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Congo's police and fractious army have been accused of involvement in rampant elephant poaching that threatens to wipe them out from a world heritage site in the east of the former Zaire, a new study has warned.
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Uganda has had 119 cases of a new strain of Ebola fever that has killed 35 people, the east African country's Health Ministry said on Friday.
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South Africa's Kruger National Park elephant population has nearly doubled in recent years, causing heavy habitat destruction and invasion of adjacent farms. Now conservation authorities are considering a plan to kill perhaps thousands elephants to bring the problem under control.
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The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA)has suspended tourism activities on the Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park after an outbreak of anthrax, local press reported on Thursday.
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Mama Petite, described as one of the oldest hippos in the country, has died after several days of rapidly declining health at the Birmingham Zoo.
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TAK, Oct 19 (TNA) _ The Sriracha Tigers Zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi has been closed after 23 tigers have died allegedly from bird flu, said Deputy Prime Minister Chaturon Chaisang Tuesday.