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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

Published in About Animals
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

Published in About Animals
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!

Published in About Animals
Dona finds a good home, three years on.
Dona, April 2015
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Dog safety

Published in About Animals
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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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

Published in About Animals
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 week in wildlife – in pictures

    A newly hatched turtle, a roaming peacock and egrets in China are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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  • Gove’s cotton bud ban is feeble. This is how we can wipe out plastic | Susanna Rustin

    From plastic forks to Arctic oil, here are eight crackdowns any plastic-restricting government should consider

    • Cotton buds and plastic straws could be banned in England next year

    At least two decades after cotton buds (known in my childhood home as “ear cleaners”) became well known as a public health hazard, never, ever to be placed anywhere near ears, the government has announced plans to ban them, maybe next year. Low-hanging fruit and all that, but like the 5p plastic bag charge introduced in 2015, this is a bit feeble.

    That doesn’t mean it isn’t good news: because they are small, hard and pointy these nasty pieces of plastic are dangerous for marine creatures, who sometimes eat them, and the sooner we get rid of them the better. The same goes for coffee stirrers and plastic straws, 8.5bn of which are thrown away in the UK each year. I blame dentists for my late conversion to straw-hating: they recommend straws (well, mine did) because sugary drinks are conducted more directly to children’s throats, bypassing teeth.

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  • Sainsbury's accused of breaking pledge on chicken welfare

    Supermarket clashes with Compassion in World Farming over award given in 2010

    Sainsbury’s has been accused of breaking promises on improving welfare conditions for chickens after it handed back a good practice award.

    The animal rights pressure group Compassion in World Farming said Sainsbury’s applied for the group’s “good chicken” award in 2010 and committed to upgrade within five years all its fresh own-label chicken to the RSPCA welfare mark, which involved giving birds more living space and light.

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  • Exclusive: US official appeared to delay protections for endangered species at behest of oil group

    The energy friendly agenda inside Trump’s interior department is revealed in records obtained by the Guardian and the watchdog groups Documented and the Western Values Project

    The Texas hornshell is a sleek green-grey mussel that once thrived in the Rio Grande watershed, its habitat stretching from southern New Mexico down into the arid Texas borderlands. Some of its habitat happens to overlap with rich deposits of oil and gas.

    Amid a long-term decline in its range, the Obama administration in 2016 proposed to declare the mussel an endangered species. Upon taking office, however, the Trump administration changed tack.

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  • From flat-pack coffins to water cremation: how to have an eco-friendly death

    The funeral industry is catering for the growing number of people who want to deal with their mortal remains in an environmentally sound way

    The grass may be greener on the other side – but is death?

    Growing numbers of people who spend their lives recycling their plastics and watching their air miles are wondering about the most environmentally sound way to deal with their mortal remains. Now, help is at hand from a funeral industry increasingly tuned in to the varied and exotic last wishes of the “consumer”.

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  • London 'pollution pods' let you sample the smog in Beijing and Delhi

    New installation at Somerset House in London lets visitors experience the air of some pollution hotspots – plus a pristine Norwegian island

    New Delhi: the suffocating smell of old cars and industry. São Paulo: enough ethanol to make your eyes water. And in London, a scent called Living Diesel.

    Those are the dominant notes of those cities’ contaminated air, according to an “artist’s approximation” that aims to raise awareness of the problem of pollution around the world.

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  • ‘Magical' mushroom mix to boost regrowth of lost Scottish forests

    Return of Great Caledonian forest speeded up with fungi spores to help saplings flourish

    The return of the Great Caledonian forest that once covered much of Scotland’s highlands is being boosted with a special mix of mushroom spores that should help saplings survive better on the hills.

    Fungi living on the roots of trees play a vital role in the ecology, helping to break down nutrients in the soil. But trees were lost in much of the Highlands many years ago so the fungi vanished too.

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  • Six Virunga park rangers killed in DRC wildlife sanctuary

    Latest ambush worst attack to date at home to world’s largest population of mountain gorillas

    Five rangers and a driver have been killed in an ambush in Virunga national park in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

    A sixth ranger was injured in the attack on Monday that took place in the central section of the vast reserve, known globally for its population of rare mountain gorillas.

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  • Madagascar's vanilla wars: prized spice drives death and deforestation

    As the price of pods has soared so has violence – and forest defenders are increasingly risking their lives to protect precious wildlife habitat from being felled for profit

    The vanilla thieves of Anjahana were so confident of their power to intimidate farmers they provided advance warning of raids. “We are coming tonight,” they would write in a note pushed under doors in this remote coastal village in Madagascar. “Prepare what we want.”

    But they either undervalued their target commodity or overestimated the meekness of their victims. After one assault too many at the turn of the year, a crowd rounded up five alleged gangsters, dragged them into the village square and then set about the bloody task of mob justice.

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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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