Last year, A Russian-U.S. commission agreed to restrict polar bear hunting to 29 bears every year for each of the countries. But Russia’s polar bear program decidednot to allow polar bear hunting in Russia.

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A baby dolphin was found in a rice field (1 kilometer from sea) after a Tsunami wave carried it away. This week, the baby dolphin was return to sea.

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The 11 years old Doberman disappeared on Sunday got stuck in a canal at Marco island and was only found after 15 hours by a neighbor living near by because of the persistence of some dolphins.

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25 lions (13 males and 12 females) rescued from Bolivian circuses and were brought to a wildlife sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado (35 miles northeast of Denver).

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Ellen DeGeneres recently announced that her holistic pet care line Halo donated over one million meals to shelter dogs and cats across the US.

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In the last seven years the number of endangered mountain gorillas has risen by 26 percent in national parks straddling three African countries. The population of the endangered primate increased from 380 in 2003 to 480 this year.

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The government of Sri Lanka, has announced turning a vast area of jungle (earlier a base for Tamil Tiger rebels)  which spread over 40,000 hectares and located in northern Sri Lanka,  into a wildlife sanctuary.

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Researchers feared that the Rosser’s sac spider may have gone extinct after 10 years ago the sightings if it stopped completely. A new sighting of the spider has provided proof of its existence and has suggested that the population of it is healthier than thought before.

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13 countries where tigers still live in the wild participated in a tiger summit in ST. PETERSBURG, Russia and agreed to a program to save the iconic big cats from extinction. The Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio committed $1 million to World Wildlife Fund after helping the group raise $20 million for tiger conservation earlier this year.

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Brazil’s Turtles of the Amazon Project is an organization which aims to make the first stages of life for the endangered turtles a little easier. The organization recently coordinated the release of 180,000 thirty days old Arraus river turtles into the Amazon river with hopes to better their chances to survive.

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