Last week Burger King became the first major U.S. fast-food chain to pledge that by 2017 all of its pork and eggs and pork products  will come from cage-free chickens and pigs.

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Last week, the Russian government has announced it will protect the rare Amur leopards and Amur tigers living in a 1,000 square mile in Russia’s Far East.

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Last week the environment ministry announced that after only 50 of the last West African giraffes were recorded in 1996, now there are over 300 living in the wild only in southwestern Niger.

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Bob biggs, 69 years old  was hiking along California river when he spotted a bear with her cub, he looked at them for a while and moved along when suddenly a mountain lion attacked him, started to shake bob when Mama bear suddenly arrived, grabbing the neck of the mountain lion and tearing it down to the ground.

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Amazon decided to remove whale meat products from its Japanese site. The UK-based environmental investigation agency (EIA) accused Amazon of hypocrisy after founding almost 150 whale products for sale on the site.

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3 new sanctuaries has been declared in Bangladesh to help protect the 2 subspecies of the south Asian river dolphin – the Ganges River dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) and the Irrawaddy River dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor).

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A group of scientists, which was placing camera traps in the dense jungles of the Borneo island, was amazed to rediscover a large, gray monkey so rare it was believed by many to be extinct.

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The largest supermarket chain in Singapore has announced it will stop selling shark fin products starting April. About a month ago few restaurants and hotels in China also announced they will no longer be serving shark fin soup.

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Starting January first, few of Chinese luxury hotels and popular restaurants will no longer be serving shark fin soup to help keep the species from becoming extinct.

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Not far form the city of Melbourne, Australia, new dolphin species has been found. The dolphins were found in Port Phillip Bay, and the Gippsland Lakes and in waters as far afield as Tasmania and South Australia and will be named Tursiops australis.

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