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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

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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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Bobi, the dog who didn't need to die

Published in About Animals
Bobi roamed free in Jelsa for several years. His sudden death carries a warning.
Bobi, Jelsa's free spirit
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Puppy love

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Luck intervened when a puppy was left to its fate on wasteland near Split on a hot day in July.
Found: an abandoned waif
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  • 'The entire habitat is gone': Hawaii's natural wonders claimed by lava

    The Kilauea eruption has wiped out rare sites and whole ecosystems. As the island mourns a tragedy, it also accepts the brutal cycle of nature

    In Puna, the area of Hawaii island that’s been hardest hit by the Kilauea volcano eruption, those who lived nearest to the lava flows watched the forest around their homes begin to die first. They said the fruit trees, flowers and ferns began turning brown, languishing in the noxious, sulfur-dioxide-filled air. Then the lava came. Now large swaths of formerly verdant forest has been replaced by rough and barren volcanic terrain.

    “Before the eruptions, that area was probably the best forest left in the state of Hawaii,” said Patrick Hart, a biology professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. “There were areas where the native Ohia forest extended right up to the ocean, and you just don’t see that in the rest of Hawaii,” he said. Now it’s covered with 20 to 30ft of lava.

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  • 'Barnacled angels': the whales of Stellwagen Bank – a photo essay

    Off the tip of Cape Cod, pods of humpbacks return every summer to feed. For the past 18 years, Philip Hoare has been joining them to witness this incredible display

    At the tip of Cape Cod, a sandy spit reaches out into the Atlantic, like an arm, towards a vast underwater plateau where humpbacks gather each summer to feed. This is the US marine sanctuary of Stellwagen Bank, where for the past three weeks I’ve been a guest on the Dolphin Fleet whalewatch boats, working out of Provincetown.

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  • Cross-party MPs say government is dragging feet on air pollution

    Calls by joint inquiry to bring forward UK car sales ban have been resisted by government

    The government has been accused of dragging its feet on air quality improvements by a cross-party group of MPs.

    A partnership of four committees said serious concerns remained about the UK’s commitment to cutting pollution and its impact on public health.

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  • Tony Abbott signals he'll cross the floor to vote against Turnbull's energy plan

    Former PM could join Craig Kelly, who has also threatened to oppose national energy guarantee

    The former prime minister Tony Abbott has flagged crossing the floor to oppose the national energy guarantee, joining fellow conservative Craig Kelly, who telegraphed a similar threat three weeks ago in an interview with Guardian Australia.

    Conservative critics of the policy are attempting to ratchet up internal pressure on the energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, before a critical meeting with his state and territory counterparts at the beginning of August.

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  • Diversion tactics: how big pharma is muddying the waters on animal antibiotics

    Antibiotic use on farms is a major cause of human drug resistance. Yet slick social media campaigns – funded by the multi-billion-dollar industry – are confusing and complicating the issue

    Slick industry PR campaigns about antibiotics in food are muddying the water around a serious public health risk, say critics.

    Pharmaceutical and meat companies are using similar tactics to the cigarette industry, in an attempt to confuse consumers and hold off regulation, despite the fact that the rapidly growing risk of anti-microbial resistance is one of the biggest health risks of our time. It’s estimated that by 205010 million people might die a year because we have overused antibiotics.

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  • Would you give up having children to save the planet? Meet the couples who have

    The environmental toll of having even one child is enormous - 58.6 tonnes of carbon each year. So is going child-free the answer to our climate crisis?

    Gwynn Mackellen was 26 when she decided to get sterilised. It took the recycling consultant, who is based in California five years to find an appropriate doctor under the public health plan she was on, but she was determined. In 2012, she succeeded. “I always knew I didn’t want kids, for environmental reasons,” she says.

    “I work in the waste industry, and our waste is the downstream of people. It’s not people being bad; it’s just the effects of people.” Just as it’s not only bad people deforesting, she says: “The trees are being cut down on our behalf. Plastic waste is being dumped and minerals are being mined not because of bad people, but because of people. Having fewer of us, there will be less of those effects.”

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  • Welcome to Brumbria: should the West Midlands become a national park?

    Could a plan to turn the West Midlands into a national park transform the Black Country’s unlovely reputation, asks Wolverhampton native Stuart Jeffries

    “I think we have an extraordinary landscape here waiting to be discovered by millions,” says landscape architect Kathryn Moore, unrolling a jauntily coloured map of her visionary new park in a Birmingham City University office. The professor isn’t talking about of Cumbria, Umbria, Snowdonia or Amazonia. She’s talking about the touristic potential of the West Midlands plateau, the heart of England that threw itself into the fiery crucible of the Industrial Revolution and still bears sacrificial scars. It is here that Professor Moore wants to create the United Kingdom’s 16th national park.

    In the 19th century, Queen Victoria would lower the blinds on the royal train so she didn’t have to see the smokestack hell of the Black Country. Tolkien was inspired to create Mordor from nocturnal visions of its blast furnaces. If Moore has her way, though, in a decade or so Queen Kate will raise the blinds as the HS2 train passes the reconfigured Tame Valley between Birmingham and Coventry. “Look!” she’ll exclaim to King William. “What a vista of allotments, fisheries, fields, orchards, forests, hi-tech agriculture, green industries, creative hubs and cycle paths!” She’ll gaze in admiration at how the Tame has been rerouted using water from Birmingham city centre’s aquifer, all crisscrossed by new footbridges linking together suburbs long isolated by the city’s motorised arterial routes.

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  • Police in south India accused of mass murder after shooting dead protesters

    Eleven people protesting over pollution from a copper plant have been killed by police in Tamil Nadu in south India

    Another person has been shot dead during violent protests in south India against a copper plant operated by a British mining giant residents say is polluting the local environment.

    Opposition politicians in the state of Tamil Nadu have accused the police of committing mass murder against protesters opposed to the expansion of a copper smelting facility in the port city of Thoothukudi.

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  • The defenders: recording the deaths of environmental defenders around the world

    This year, in collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian aims to record the deaths of all people killed while protecting land or natural resources. At the current rate, about four defenders will die this week somewhere on the planet

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  • Maasai herders driven off land to make way for luxury safaris, report says

    Tanzanian government accused of putting indigenous people at risk in order to grant foreign tourists access to Serengeti wildlife

    The Tanzanian government is putting foreign safari companies ahead of Maasai herding communities as environmental tensions grow on the fringes of the Serengeti national park, according to a new investigation.

    Hundreds of homes have been burned and tens of thousands of people driven from ancestral land in Loliondo in the Ngorongoro district in recent years to benefit high-end tourists and a Middle Eastern royal family, says the report by the California-based thinktank the Oakland Institute.

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