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City Council Spends $120,000 to Move Four Newts

Thursday, February 14, 2008

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Local government officials in Britain recently spent £60,000($120,000) to move four newts from a building site on a school’s grounds. Image by Christian Fischer Four Great Crested Newts, an endangered species, were found on the grounds of Fallibroome High School in the city of Macclesfield. Under EU and [...]

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EU Takes Malta to Court Over Yearly Bird Massacre

Friday, February 1, 2008

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The European Union is taking Malta to court for failing to stop the islands’ annual massacre of migrating birds, many of them rare or endangered species. 100 of these protected honey buzzards were killed last year during Malta’s spring hunt. Photo by Robert Dietrich. You may recall an article [...]

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