Endangered species
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Kenya bans export of snakes to zoos and pet shopsTrafficking of endangered snakes as pets or for their skins is having a negative impact on breeding patterns and size of species
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Birth of rare cotton-top tamarin a once-in-a-decade event at Sydney zooTaronga Zoo’s tiny six-week-old monkey has only just started to explore on its own and is already sports the endangered species’ distinctive mohawk
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Premature baby hippo fights for survival in Cincinnati ZooStaff hand-nurse female calf of mother Bibi and father Henry after it was born around six weeks early and well below normal birth weight
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Zoo staff feed baby hippo that arrived six weeks early – videoA female Nile hippo calf – born early and so underweight that it cannot feed by itself – receives critical care from staff at Cincinnati Zoo
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Saving loggerhead turtles: the annual sacrifice to preserve an ancient journeyEach summer for 40 years Nev and Bev McLachlan have camped on a remote Queensland beach to monitor and tag nesting sea turtles. Melissa Davey joins them on their mission
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China to ban ivory trade by the end of 2017Dozens of trade venues to be closed in the next three months, in a move activists are calling ‘a gamechanger’
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Rare Rothschild's giraffe born at Chester zoo on Boxing DayCalf, which is yet to be sexed or named, is one of most endangered subspecies of giraffe, with fewer than 1,600 in wild
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Cheetah 'more vulnerable to extinction than previously thought'Urgent action is needed to stop the cheetah - the world’s fastest land animal - sprinting to extinction, experts have warned
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