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Maza, The Dog Who Came Home

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From Skittish Stari Grad Street Dog to Alpha Canine Queen of Dol, Sveta Ana. Evening Lategano of the Suncrokret Body and Soul Retreat in Dol tells the story of Maza's rescue.
Maza, The Dog Who Came Home
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Heartfelt plea

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A visitor from Slovenia helped cats in Pokrivenik through her holiday. Now they need help! Everyone is doing what they can.
Heartfelt plea
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Rocky, a happy rescue dog

Published in About Animals
Not all dogs live the life of Riley in Dalmatia, but some are luckier than others. Here Rocky tells his story.
Rocky, a fine furry friend
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Cats, music, fun

Published in About Animals
Cats and music both give pleasure to many. Combine the two...pure joy for cat and music lovers!
Cats, music, fun
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Dogs as friends

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Dogs in a loving home become friends with their owners. They say that anyone who doesn't like animals doesn't like humans either.
Pouchkine, happy rescue dog
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Dona - happy dog!

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Dona finds a good home, three years on.
Dona, April 2015
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Dog safety

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Lost or abandoned? It's all too easy for a dog to get lost, often much harder to find it.
Puppe the wanderer reunited with Paula.
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Animals and a Kinder World

Published in About Animals
The feast day of St. Francis of Assisi is celebrated on October 4th each year, which is also World Animal Day.
Fra Joakim Gregov with his statue of St. Francis of Assisi, in front of the Franciscan Monastery, Hvar
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Nola, a happy rescue tale

Published in About Animals
Nola, a type of Siberian husky, had an unpromising start to her young life.
Nola in Jelsa, January 23rd 2017.
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The Trouble With Cats

Published in About Animals
The sufferings of Hvar's cats blight an otherwise happy visit to Hvar.
Stella's postcard from Canada
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  • Son of Cecil the lion killed by trophy hunter

    Six-year-old Xanda was shot and killed by hunters when he roamed outside the protected area of the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe

    A son of Cecil the lion has been killed by trophy hunters in Zimbabwe, meeting the same fate as his father whose death in 2015 caused a global outcry.

    Xanda was six years old and had fathered a number of cubs himself. He was shot on 7 July just outside the Hwange National Park, not far from where Cecil died, but news of the death only became public on Thursday.

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  • Scale of pangolin slaughter revealed – millions hunted in central Africa alone

    Pangolins are the world’s most trafficked wild mammal and decimated Asian populations have sharply shifted the focus of exploitation to Africa

    The true scale of the slaughter of pangolins in Africa has been revealed by new research showing that millions of the scaly mammals are being hunted and killed.

    Pangolins were already known to be the world’s most trafficked wild mammal, with at least a million being traded in the last decade to supply the demand for its meat and scales in Asian markets. Populations of Asian pangolins have been decimated, leaving the creatures highly endangered and sharply shifting the focus of exploitation to Africa’s four species.

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  • Mexico launches pioneering scheme to insure its coral reef

    Hotels and local government in Cancún will pay premiums, and insurance industry will pay out if the reef is damaged by storms

    A stretch of coral reef off Mexico is the testing ground for a new idea that could protect fragile environments around the world: insurance.

    The reef, off the coast of Cancún, is the first to be protected under an insurance scheme by which the premiums will be paid by local hotels and government, and money to pay for the repair of the reef will be released if a storm strikes.

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  • Bees under the macro lens – in pictures

    Summer’s here, and so are bees. These new macro images by Alejandro Santillana are being showcased in the Insects Unlocked project at the University of Texas at Austin

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  • House of horrors: inside the US wildlife repository – photo essay

    Photographer Matthew Staver and writer Oliver Milman visited the US National Wildlife Property Repository, where illegal wildlife products, from stuffed tigers to worked ivory, are stored and counted

    If the US had a national house of horrors, it would probably be the federal government compound that lies on the fringes of Denver, Colorado, incongruously set within a wildlife reserve where bison languorously dawdle against a backdrop of the snow-crowned Rockies.

    The National Wildlife Property Repository, operated by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), is a warehouse of the macabre. It’s a Noah’s ark of protected deceased biodiversity that smugglers attempted to get into the US before being caught by FWS staff at airports and ports.

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  • Hot dogs: rising heat makes it too hot for Africa’s wild dogs to hunt

    The endangered wild dogs are well adapted to high temperatures but a warming world means pup survival is plummeting, study shows

    Rising temperatures are making it too hot for African wild dogs to hunt and the number of their pups that survive is plummeting, according to a new study. The research is among the first to show a direct impact of increased heat on wildlife that appears well adapted to high temperatures.

    There are only 7,000 African wild dogs left in the wild and they have lost 93% of their historic ranges to humans. Research earlier in July suggested that a “biological annihilation” of wildlife in recent decades means a sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is already under way.

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  • Plastic pollution risks 'near permanent contamination of natural environment'

    First global analysis of all mass–produced plastics has found humans have produced 8.3bn tonnes since the 1950s with the majority ending up in landfill or oceans

    Humans have produced 8.3bn tonnes of plastic since the 1950s with the majority ending up in landfill or polluting the world’s continents and oceans, according to a new report.

    The first global analysis of all mass–produced plastics has found that it has outstripped most other man-made materials, threatening a “near permanent contamination of the natural environment”.

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  • Asia's coal-fired power boom 'bankrolled by foreign governments and banks'

    The vast majority of newly built stations in Indonesia relied on export credits agencies or development banks, says study by Market Forces

    The much-discussed boom in coal-fired power in south-east Asia is being bankrolled by foreign governments and banks, with the vast majority of projects apparently too risky for the private sector.

    Environmental analysts at activist group Market Forces examined 22 deals involving 13.1 gigawatts of coal-fired power in Indonesia and found that 91% of the projects had the backing of foreign governments through export credit agencies or development banks.

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  • UK threatens to return radioactive waste to EU without nuclear deal

    Brexit department warns EU counterparts it will ‘return waste to its country of origin’ if an agreement on nuclear cooperation cannot be reached

    Britain has warned the EU that it could return boatloads of radioactive waste back to the continent if the Brexit talks fail to deliver an agreement on nuclear regulation.

    In what is being taken in Brussels as a thinly veiled threat, a paper setting out the UK position for the negotiations stresses the right “to return radioactive waste … to its country of origin” should negotiations collapse.

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  • Pennsylvania nuns oppose fracking gas pipeline through 'holy' land

    Catholic order builds chapel in middle of cornfield in attempt to use religious freedom protections to block Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

    Catholic nuns in Pennsylvania are resisting plans to build a $3bn pipeline for gas obtained by fracking through its land by creating a rudimentary chapel along the proposed route and launching a legal challenge, citing religious freedom.

    The Adorers of the Blood of Christ order has filed a complaint against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in a bid to keep the pipeline off their land. The nuns’ lawyers argue in court papers that a decision by FERC to force them to accommodate the pipeline is “antithetical to the deeply held religious beliefs and convictions of the Adorers”.

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