Activists in China have released a pangolin into the wild to celebrate new protections for the armadillo-like animal whose numbers in the country have dropped to near extinction levels.
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Kira, a 2-1/2-year-old tiger, arrived at a zoo in Mexico’s northeast in April after her owner could no longer feed her due to the coronavirus-induced economic collapse.
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A German rescue ship was seeking a safe port on Tuesday after it saved 150 refugees from small boats in distress off the Libyan coast.
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The world’s only known albino orangutan has been spotted alive and well in a Borneo rainforest, more than a year after she was released into the wild, conservationists say.
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A dozen sea turtles that nearly froze when they were too far north last fall as water temperatures abruptly plunged in New Jersey survived that ordeal but remain threatened by the pneumonia most of them developed afterward.
Read moreHouston courts canceled their Friday dockets, schools are closed and the city is under a boil-water notice after an 8-foot water main burst Thursday and firefighters sent boats to rescue drivers stranded on a flooded freeway.
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Rescuers in Mexico were partially able to free a humpback whale that became entangled in a fishing net illegally set inside a refuge for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, a conservationist group said Monday.
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Spain has located 69 African migrants who had gone missing while trying to reach Europe by boat, the country’s Maritime Rescue service said Tuesday.
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Search efforts have resumed in eastern Turkey after two avalanches killed dozens and left at least two people missing, Turkish news agencies reported.
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Indonesia has called off a contest offering a cash reward to anyone brave enough to remove a motorbike tire stuck around the neck of a giant crocodile.
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Visiting Tibetan monks helped release a rehabilitated sea turtle in the Florida Keys Thursday.
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Indonesian authorities are offering a reward to anyone who can rescue a saltwater crocodile with a motorbike tire stuck around its neck — and survive.
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In a nearly seven-hour operation, Russia’s emergency services rescued 536 ice fishermen after they got stranded on a giant ice floe that broke off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Siberia, officials said.
Read moreA third horse has been rescued from a strip mine site in Kentucky where 20 horses were found fatally shot.
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Weeks after an Alaska man’s remote cabin burned down, he was rescued by Alaska State Troopers who found him by a makeshift shelter with an SOS signal stamped in the snow.
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The death toll from floods in Indonesia’s capital rose to 43 of Friday as rescuers found more bodies in receding floodwaters, disaster officials said.
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A dozen koalas have been rescued from the path of bushfires raging near Sydney, conservationists said Tuesday, as devastating blazes increasingly encroach on critical habitat
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Chile’s air force lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight Monday evening to the country’s base in Antarctica, and authorities indicated several hours later that they were not optimistic about the aircraft’s fate.
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Survivors of a powerful volcanic eruption in New Zealand ran into the sea to escape the scalding steam and ash and emerged covered in burns, say those who first helped them.
Read moreNine members of an Arizona family, together for the Thanksgiving holiday, were in an oversized military-style truck when they got stuck in a raging creek swollen by runoff from a powerful storm.
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