Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers
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The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
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Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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Walrus Freya killed by Norway gets Oslo sculpture – online campaign earlier raised $25,000 to make the statue
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What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives – and how we can help them
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World's oldest European hedgehog discovered in Denmark – posthumous discovery gives conservationists hope for the mammals' future preservation
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Berlin's giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes
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Neuralink is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths
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The Gombe Chimpanzee War (1974-1978)
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The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us
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Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population – conservation groups appeal to EU to take action against slaughter they allege flouts rules
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Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town
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Revenge of the apes: Monkeys in Maharashtra's Beed District on a murderous rampage after dogs kill one of their infants
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Why do manatees die when power plants shut down?
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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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Wisconsin hunters kill over 200 wolves in less than three days
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Denmark's plans to cull seventeen million mink is facing legal obstacles after the government admitted it did not have a legal basis for the order
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Danish veterinarians and farmers have begun culling at least 2.5 million minks in northern Denmark after coronavirus has been reported in at least sixty-three farms
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Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
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Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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Saving Grace, featuring Robert Plant and Suzi Dian, cancels Faroe Islands festival set due to country's whaling operation
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Scientists discover new evidence of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs
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Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths
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Twenty pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland
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'The sport is at a tipping point': Inside US horse racing’s deadly crisis
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British trophy hunters paying to shoot 100 puffins at a time during trips to Iceland
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Over two hundred dead reindeer found on Norway's Arctic Svalbard
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Dozens of dead beached whales have been spotted by sightseers during a helicopter flight over western Iceland
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It’s time to end horse racing for good
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Grumpy Cat, dead at 7
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Skyscrapers are killing up to 1bn birds a year in US, scientists estimate
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Twenty-one horses died at a single racetrack in the last ten weeks. How did it happen?
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Thousands more fish found dead at Menindee (New South Wales) as locals fear there will be 'none left'
Thousands more fish found dead at Menindee as locals fear there will be 'none left' Here's the previous story about the last mass death in the area: A million fish dead in 'distressing' outback...
Thousands more fish found dead at Menindee as locals fear there will be 'none left'
Here's the previous story about the last mass death in the area: A million fish dead in 'distressing' outback algal bloom at Menindee (New South Wales)
This is now the third mass death of fish in that area in the past month.
The state government's response: Menindee fish deaths 'out of NSW Government's hands' says Regional Water Minister Niall Blair
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A million fish dead in 'distressing' outback algal bloom at Menindee (New South Wales)
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Is the death of a horse a sacrifice we're willing to make?
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died
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Two of our chickens have died in the last week
We have a small flock of 8, and in the last week, two of our three bantams have died. It's part of having pets (and chickens in particular), but it's really bumming me out.
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