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Thai zoo's 1st baby panda goes on display (AP)

A 6-week-old unnamed female panda cub is seen at the Chiang Mai zoo in the northern city of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Saturday, July 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Wichai Taprieu)AP - Thousands of excited visitors flocked Saturday to a zoo in northern Thailand for the first public viewing of a baby panda, which has been featured on Thai front pages almost every day since her birth six weeks ago.





Environmental group WWF urges G8 to make climate pledge (AFP)

The environmental group WWF, urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week. Echoing a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel a day earlier, the WWF said the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, must commit to keeping the rise in global average temperature AFP - The environmental group WWF on Friday urged the Group of Eight industrialised nations to show global leadership by making a commitment to keep climate change in check at their summit next week.





Australia discovers 3 new large dinosaurs (Reuters)

A handout image released by the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History shows 'Banjo' Australovenator wintonensis. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/Travis Tischler)Reuters - Fossils of three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia, including a meat-eater larger than Velociraptor from the Jurassic Park movies, suggesting Australia may have a more complex prehistoric past.





Three new dinosaur species found in Australia (AFP)

Will Murphy, 7, inspects the teeth of a Theropod dinosaur at an exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, 2008. Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Australian scientists hailed the country's most significant dinosaur discovery in decades on Friday after three new species were unearthed in a Queensland billabong.





Another endangered elephant dies in Indonesia: WWF (AFP)

A Sumatran elephant (Elephant maximus Sumatranus) with her one day old baby at Taman Safari in Bogor, seen here in 2003. An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May. There are about 2,400 to 2,800 Sumatran elephants in Indonesia, of which 200 to 250 are in Riau, according to WWF.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)AFP - An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May, environmental group WWF said Thursday.





Idaho F&G plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles (AP) AP - Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs more work.


Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline (AP) AP - Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday.


Settlement to require animal labs to post data (AP) AP - Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department.


Namibian animal rights activist bids to stop seal slaughter (AFP)

Seals are seen at Cape Cross seal reserve, some 430 kilometers west of Windhoek in 2000. In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.(AFP/File/Jutta Dobler)AFP - In a bid to save tens of thousands of baby seals being killed for their fur, Namibia animal rights activist are rushing to raise millions of dollars to buy out a fur company that buys the pelts.





Canada worst, Germany best on climate change: report (AFP)

Downtown Vancouver is pictured on June 10, 2009. Canada ranks last among the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations for tackling climate change while Germany is top, the green group WWF and the German insurance giant Allianz reported on Wednesday.(AFP/File/Erica Berenstein)AFP - Canada ranks last among the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations for tackling climate change while Germany is top, the green group WWF and the German insurance giant Allianz reported on Wednesday.





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