Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2120 science Animals & Pets News en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:36:36 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2120 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/sc_afp/taiwanexportshrimp afp/20091107/taiwanexportshrimp AFP science Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:36:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/sc_afp/taiwanexportshrimp"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257618864825-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=SbVCmH9F034fgdtZVQhSNA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A Harlequin shrimp, Hymenocera picta, is displayed in a tank during the annual Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei in November 6. Taiwanese breeders said Saturday they are hoping to make huge profits from a rare species of ornamental shrimp after a pair sold for 8,500 US dollars at auction.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Taiwanese breeders said Saturday they are hoping to make huge profits from a rare species of ornamental shrimp after a pair sold for 8,500 US dollars at auction.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091107/sc_afp/taiwanexportshrimp"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257618864825-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=SbVCmH9F034fgdtZVQhSNA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Harlequin shrimp, Hymenocera picta, is displayed in a tank during the annual Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei in November 6. Taiwanese breeders said Saturday they are hoping to make huge profits from a rare species of ornamental shrimp after a pair sold for 8,500 US dollars at auction.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_alaska_village ap/20091107/us_swine_flu_alaska_village AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:05:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_alaska_village"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a5187d0129704f5596b7cde38c6deabd.swine_flu_alaska_village_akrd101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=44qOsqxplqM4cPAyM.3f5Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 miles away. The medics arrived Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary. (AP Photo/Norton Sound Health Corporation, David Head)" border="0" /></a>AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island &mdash; prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_swine_flu_alaska_village"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a5187d0129704f5596b7cde38c6deabd.swine_flu_alaska_village_akrd101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=44qOsqxplqM4cPAyM.3f5Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 miles away. The medics arrived Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary. (AP Photo/Norton Sound Health Corporation, David Head)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_circus_elephant_escapes ap/20091106/us_circus_elephant_escapes AP us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:28:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_circus_elephant_escapes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.3e19dc0531e048e885e63c5a4590cd5d.odd_elephant_sideswiped_okeni101.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=Y0.D_4eXz7R2La2Zv.6vMw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="An elephant that escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds after being spooked caused a vehicle accident Wednesday night, Nov. 4, 2009 as it ran along North the U.S. 81 bypass in Enid, Okla. According to Enid Police Department Sgt. Billy Varney, the couple in the vehicle were not injured. The elephant suffered a broken tusk, a hurt leg and bumps, bruises and scratches, he said. (AP Photo/Enid News & Eagle, Billy Hefton)" border="0" /></a>AP - An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma highway.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_circus_elephant_escapes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.3e19dc0531e048e885e63c5a4590cd5d.odd_elephant_sideswiped_okeni101.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=Y0.D_4eXz7R2La2Zv.6vMw--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="An elephant that escaped from the Family Fun Circus at the Garfield County Fairgrounds after being spooked caused a vehicle accident Wednesday night, Nov. 4, 2009 as it ran along North the U.S. 81 bypass in Enid, Okla. According to Enid Police Department Sgt. Billy Varney, the couple in the vehicle were not injured. The elephant suffered a broken tusk, a hurt leg and bumps, bruises and scratches, he said. (AP Photo/Enid News & Eagle, Billy Hefton)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_seal_hunt ap/20091105/eu_norway_seal_hunt AP world Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:14:35 GMT AP - Norway has joined Canada in asking the World Trade Organization to settle its seal hunt dispute with the European Union. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn afp/20091103/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn AFP science Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:39:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257224151682-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=120&q=85&sig=zve5PZKEueDdmT5vZReXzg--" align="left" height="120" width="130" alt="A International Union for Conservation of Nature photo of a Kihansi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis) which once numbered at least 17,000 at the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania, and has now joined the list of creatures which are extinct in the wild.(AFP/IUCN/Tim Herman)" border="0" /></a>AFP - More than 1,000 freshwater fish species are threatened with extinction, reflecting the strain on global water resources, an updated global "Red List" of endangered species showed Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091103/sc_afp/environmentbiodiversityspeciesiucn"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091103/capt.photo_1257224151682-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=120&q=85&sig=zve5PZKEueDdmT5vZReXzg--" align="left" height="120" width="130" alt="photo" title="A International Union for Conservation of Nature photo of a Kihansi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis) which once numbered at least 17,000 at the Kihansi Falls in Tanzania, and has now joined the list of creatures which are extinct in the wild.(AFP/IUCN/Tim Herman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_sc/eu_endangered_species ap/20091103/eu_endangered_species AP science Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:38:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_sc/eu_endangered_species"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.25cb54fdb8814e94906755209d374a81.eu_endangered_species_fra803.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1eNSgG5I7S5SAcyMdEQ7Ew--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - This undated file photo provided Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 by IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, shows a Varanus mabitang. The monitor lizard is one of the species that could soon disappear in the wild, IUCN said Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Switzerland-based IUCN surveyed a total of 47,677 animals and plants for this year's 'Red List' of endangered species and determined that 17,291 of them are threatened with extinction. (AP Photo/IUCN, Tim Laman)" border="0" /></a>AP - A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_sc/eu_endangered_species"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.25cb54fdb8814e94906755209d374a81.eu_endangered_species_fra803.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1eNSgG5I7S5SAcyMdEQ7Ew--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - This undated file photo provided Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 by IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, shows a Varanus mabitang. The monitor lizard is one of the species that could soon disappear in the wild, IUCN said Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. Switzerland-based IUCN surveyed a total of 47,677 animals and plants for this year's 'Red List' of endangered species and determined that 17,291 of them are threatened with extinction. (AP Photo/IUCN, Tim Laman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091103/us_nm/us_meat_humane_usda nm/20091103/us_meat_humane_usda Reuters us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:18:12 GMT Reuters - The U.S. Agriculture Department should tighten regulations for the transport and slaughter of veal calves to ensure they are not treated cruelly, the Humane Society of the United States said on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/us_san_diego_sea_turtles ap/20091103/us_san_diego_sea_turtles AP us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:21:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/us_san_diego_sea_turtles"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.12d2097538464db28acc715ce1daf3a5.san_diego_sea_turtles_la110.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_HcWgVLCqhUYX.3_2ylWog--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This Oct. 7, 2009 photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego shows sea turtle hatchlings transferred to a holding pool at SeaWorld San Diego. The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help. (AP Photo/SeaWorld San Diego, Bob Couey)" border="0" /></a>AP - The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/us_san_diego_sea_turtles"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.12d2097538464db28acc715ce1daf3a5.san_diego_sea_turtles_la110.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_HcWgVLCqhUYX.3_2ylWog--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="This Oct. 7, 2009 photo provided by SeaWorld San Diego shows sea turtle hatchlings transferred to a holding pool at SeaWorld San Diego. The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help. (AP Photo/SeaWorld San Diego, Bob Couey)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_af/af_kenya_sprinter_and_cheetah ap/20091102/af_kenya_sprinter_and_cheetah AP world Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:09:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_af/af_kenya_sprinter_and_cheetah"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.174b8d4c7da446fd8410188b0ea46268.aptopix_kenya_usain_bolt_nai115.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=PQHvhs6v44HnG3gd8mvopg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds a three-month old male cheetah cub which he named Lightning Bolt, after adopting the cub at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, in Nairobi, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)" border="0" /></a>AP - The world's fastest man adopted the animal kingdom's fastest sprinter Monday, as Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah named Lightning Bolt into his life.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_re_af/af_kenya_sprinter_and_cheetah"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091102/capt.174b8d4c7da446fd8410188b0ea46268.aptopix_kenya_usain_bolt_nai115.jpg?x=97&y=130&q=85&sig=PQHvhs6v44HnG3gd8mvopg--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="photo" title="Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds a three-month old male cheetah cub which he named Lightning Bolt, after adopting the cub at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, in Nairobi, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/sc_afp/malaysiacommoditiespalmoil afp/20091102/malaysiacommoditiespalmoil AFP science Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:40:51 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/sc_afp/malaysiacommoditiespalmoil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257161941136-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=77&q=85&sig=tl0mYUY5EGf8adjluWq3cg--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="An oil palm plantation covers a swath of land where a forest once stood in the Miri interior, eastern Malaysian Borneo state of Sarawak in 2007. European palm oil buyers who are refusing to purchase expensive eco-friendly palm oil were named and shamed by environmental campaigners WWF International.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - European palm oil buyers who are refusing to purchase expensive eco-friendly palm oil were named and shamed Monday by environmental campaigners WWF International.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/sc_afp/malaysiacommoditiespalmoil"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091102/capt.photo_1257161941136-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=77&q=85&sig=tl0mYUY5EGf8adjluWq3cg--" align="left" height="77" width="130" alt="photo" title="An oil palm plantation covers a swath of land where a forest once stood in the Miri interior, eastern Malaysian Borneo state of Sarawak in 2007. European palm oil buyers who are refusing to purchase expensive eco-friendly palm oil were named and shamed by environmental campaigners WWF International.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091031/sc_afp/australiathailandenvironmentpollutionspill afp/20091031/australiathailandenvironmentpollutionspill AFP science Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:22:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091031/sc_afp/australiathailandenvironmentpollutionspill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091031/capt.photo_1256283239807-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sUR9wlr15RykZ31sXdsqjw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="File photo shows an animal protection officer preparing to remove oil from a contaminated sea bird. A massive oil leak off Australia's northwest coast poses an "immediate risk" to dozens of marine species, with untold numbers possibly dying and sinking to the Timor Sea floor, a report has said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A massive oil leak off Australia's northwest coast poses an "immediate risk" to dozens of marine species, with untold numbers possibly dying and sinking to the Timor Sea floor, a report has said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091031/sc_afp/australiathailandenvironmentpollutionspill"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091031/capt.photo_1256283239807-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=sUR9wlr15RykZ31sXdsqjw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="File photo shows an animal protection officer preparing to remove oil from a contaminated sea bird. A massive oil leak off Australia's northwest coast poses an "immediate risk" to dozens of marine species, with untold numbers possibly dying and sinking to the Timor Sea floor, a report has said.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091031/wl_asia_afp/japannetherlandswhalingdiplomacy afp/20091031/japannetherlandswhalingdiplomacy AFP world Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:08:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091031/wl_asia_afp/japannetherlandswhalingdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091031/capt.photo_1256972801885-1-0.jpg?x=125&y=130&q=85&sig=o.fKNfX7qU8LChBAdk8Txg--" align="left" height="130" width="125" alt="Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has revealed he dislikes whale meat, a newspaper reported Saturday, in an unusual confession for the prime minister of a country that defies Western criticism of whaling(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has revealed he dislikes whale meat, a newspaper reported Saturday, in an unusual confession for the prime minister of a country that defies Western criticism of whaling.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091031/wl_asia_afp/japannetherlandswhalingdiplomacy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091031/capt.photo_1256972801885-1-0.jpg?x=125&y=130&q=85&sig=o.fKNfX7qU8LChBAdk8Txg--" align="left" height="130" width="125" alt="photo" title="Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has revealed he dislikes whale meat, a newspaper reported Saturday, in an unusual confession for the prime minister of a country that defies Western criticism of whaling(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/sc_afp/citesspeciestuna afp/20091029/citesspeciestuna AFP science Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:43:21 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/sc_afp/citesspeciestuna"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256826996463-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5_o9pxe2Tx5H1cbgYQ2sCg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Bluefin tuna is loaded onto a fishing boat off the coast of the Croation town of Zadar in 2007. Environmental groups WWF and Greenpeace said that scientists who advise fisheries regulators support a ban on trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi staple, to protect the species from over-fishing.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Scientists who advise fisheries regulators support a ban on trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi staple, to protect the species from over-fishing, environmental groups WWF and Greenpeace said Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/sc_afp/citesspeciestuna"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091029/capt.photo_1256826996463-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5_o9pxe2Tx5H1cbgYQ2sCg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Bluefin tuna is loaded onto a fishing boat off the coast of the Croation town of Zadar in 2007. Environmental groups WWF and Greenpeace said that scientists who advise fisheries regulators support a ban on trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, a sushi staple, to protect the species from over-fishing.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091028/india_nm/india434900 nm/20091028/india434900 Reuters world Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:08:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091028/india_nm/india434900"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091028/i/ra2177178452.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=IU0bTMHjY6LlxI1QygwI7A--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A wounded male Royal Bengal Tiger sits in a cage at a veterinary zoo hospital in March 16, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/Files" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Tigers could become extinct in the wild in two decades unless the world ramps up conservation efforts to halt the decline in their population, wildlife experts said on Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091028/india_nm/india434900"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091028/i/ra2177178452.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=IU0bTMHjY6LlxI1QygwI7A--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="A wounded male Royal Bengal Tiger sits in a cage at a veterinary zoo hospital in March 16, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/Files" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_re_us/us_bat_die_off ap/20091027/us_bat_die_off AP us Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:55:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_re_us/us_bat_die_off"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091027/capt.3ec1d5cbe5284d55865927c9e6b61854.bat_die_off_ny125.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=aZG3X5RJrjRqc2hSMj7RUQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2009 file photo, a radio transmitter is inserted into a little brown bat in an abandoned mine in Rosendale, N.Y. Researcers on Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009 will introduce 79 healthy little brown bats to two hibernation sites in Vermont struck hard by white-nose sydrome, which has been obliterating bat populations in the eastern United States for several winters. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wildlife biologists studying a mysterious fungus killing off hundreds of thousands of bats around America want to find out if they can repopulate caves decimated by the disease.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_re_us/us_bat_die_off"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091027/capt.3ec1d5cbe5284d55865927c9e6b61854.bat_die_off_ny125.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=aZG3X5RJrjRqc2hSMj7RUQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2009 file photo, a radio transmitter is inserted into a little brown bat in an abandoned mine in Rosendale, N.Y. Researcers on Tuesday Oct. 27, 2009 will introduce 79 healthy little brown bats to two hibernation sites in Vermont struck hard by white-nose sydrome, which has been obliterating bat populations in the eastern United States for several winters. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091027/ap_on_re_as/as_nepal_saving_tigers ap/20091027/as_nepal_saving_tigers AP world Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:41:03 GMT AP - The world's tiger population is declining fast despite efforts to save them, and new strategies are urgently needed to keep the species from dying out, international wildlife experts said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091022/ts_alt_afp/usenvironmentanimalbear afp/20091022/usenvironmentanimalbear AFP us Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:26:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091022/ts_alt_afp/usenvironmentanimalbear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091022/capt.photo_1256250336788-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=z6l0KRgoYckxac73ssF6VQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="The United States on Thursday announced plans to designate more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears, a key step towards increasing protection for the threatened species.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Latz)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The United States on Thursday announced plans to designate more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears, a key step towards increasing protection for the threatened species.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091022/ts_alt_afp/usenvironmentanimalbear"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091022/capt.photo_1256250336788-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=z6l0KRgoYckxac73ssF6VQ--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="The United States on Thursday announced plans to designate more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears, a key step towards increasing protection for the threatened species.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Latz)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091022/sc_afp/environmentclimateargentinawwf afp/20091022/environmentclimateargentinawwf AFP science Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:48:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091022/sc_afp/environmentclimateargentinawwf"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091022/capt.photo_1256233536454-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=Z7YBipdxSLiXCXc0g.tiww--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="A logged near Lapok in Malaysia's Sarawak State. The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091022/sc_afp/environmentclimateargentinawwf"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091022/capt.photo_1256233536454-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=79&q=85&sig=Z7YBipdxSLiXCXc0g.tiww--" align="left" height="79" width="130" alt="photo" title="A logged near Lapok in Malaysia's Sarawak State. The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday.(AFP/File/Saeed Khan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20091022/pl_bloomberg/aetx_dz_emy0 bloomberg/20091022/aetx_dz_emy0 Bloomberg politics Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:00:00 GMT Bloomberg - Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The state of Alaska filed suit in federal court asking that the U.S. government’s designation of the polar bear as a threatened species because of climate change be overturned. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091021/sc_afp/citesspeciesfishivoryasia afp/20091021/citesspeciesfishivoryasia AFP science Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:09:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091021/sc_afp/citesspeciesfishivoryasia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091021/capt.photo_1256092214314-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=128&q=85&sig=99nSA.b3iKtlHK7fqU_YXw--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="File photo shows a man in a shop that sells dried shark fins along a busy street in Hong Kong. Asian demand for bluefin tuna, sharks' fins and ivory will come under scrutiny when 175 member states of the UN wildlife trade agency meet to consider trade restrictions, according to documents seen by AFP.(AFP/File/Anne Cecile Guthmann)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Proposals to restrict or ban international trade in those three products are due to be studied when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) holds its next triennial meeting in Qatar next year.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pets/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091021/sc_afp/citesspeciesfishivoryasia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091021/capt.photo_1256092214314-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=128&q=85&sig=99nSA.b3iKtlHK7fqU_YXw--" align="left" height="128" width="130" alt="photo" title="File photo shows a man in a shop that sells dried shark fins along a busy street in Hong Kong. Asian demand for bluefin tuna, sharks' fins and ivory will come under scrutiny when 175 member states of the UN wildlife trade agency meet to consider trade restrictions, according to documents seen by AFP.(AFP/File/Anne Cecile Guthmann)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)