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Israeli Turtle Gets Skateboard to Replace Legs

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Posted by geri
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Officials in a Jerusalem zoo have fitted a 55-pound spurred tortoise with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs. The 10-year-old turtle was unable to move herself forward with her front legs alone. So the zoo's staff built her a metal board with two wheels that can be strapped to her shell.

Humpback and Two Other Whale Species on Road to Recovery

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Posted by geri
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Three whale species, the humpback, minke and southern right, are recovering from the threat of extinction according to a new study released by the world's largest conservation network. Thanks to curbs on hunts since the 1980s, the status of both the southern right and humpback population has been lowered from Vulnerable to Least Concern.
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Ethical Coffee Helps Save Peruvian Rainforest

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Posted by geri
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Once bleak and lifeless places degraded by years of high-impact farming, Peruvian coffee farms are being transformed by a growing trend for certification schemes offering ethical and environmental guarantees to western coffee drinkers.
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Meet South Africa’s Dr. Dolittle

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Posted by stevegh
Thursday, 07 August 2008
Cheetahs threatening the livestock? Call Brian. A crocodile attacking people? Brian will take it – the way he takes everything – to his Moholoholo Wildlife Rehab Centre for injured and endangered animals. He is the answer to all variety of animal problems that vex humans in the scrubby lowlands of eastern South Africa. (Christian Science Monitor) (Photo by Elan Sun Star)

Massive Numbers of Gorillas Discovered, Doubling Population

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Posted by geri
Tuesday, 05 August 2008
Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they've discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal's estimated population. (AP article via MSNBC) This, on the same day that the AFP reports on a study that says primates are "disappearing from the face of the Earth". . . hmmm. A couple years ago I also reported that Gorilla populations had grown 17 percent in Uganda's Bwindi park, home to almost half of the world’s remaining mountain gorillas during the 1990's, with similar trends in another park.