Iceland's president urged to intervene over Europe's last whaler – conservation groups are asking for the decision to allow Hvalur to hunt to be put on hold until after election
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UK music festival The Great Escape has withdrawn its partnership with the Faroe Islands after it was criticised for working with a country which allows “barbaric” whaling
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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Hvaldimir, a celebrated ‘spy’ whale, is found dead in Norway – first spotted in 2019 wearing what looked like a camera harness
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Sphen, partner in Australian same-sex penguin couple, dies
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Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt – conservationists say number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’
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She faked her chimp's death; then things went apeshit
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India elephant app: Hopes new tech can reduce human and animal deaths
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Iceland's government has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year
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What my dog taught me about mortality
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A fire killed 18,000 cows in Texas. It’s a horrifyingly normal disaster. (2023)
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Four more cats die of H5N1 bird flu in the US
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Big farms are under pressure to address the problem of dying salmon in Norway's vast fish-farm industry
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Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
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Please, enough with the dead butterflies!
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Consider the lobster
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How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
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When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice
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Colombia will try to control invasive hippo population through sterilization, transfer, euthanasia
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The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
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The gruesome story of how Neuralink’s monkeys actually died
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Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
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Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border
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North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples
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Finland, Europe's leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to stem an outbreak of avian flu that has hit fur farms
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White-nose syndrome in bats was detected in Texas in February 2020. Scientists are only now understanding the population loss.
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Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins
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Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
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Controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing suspended after a whale drowns
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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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