Starting this week (Armed Forces Day), the National Park Service and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) will start issuing free annual passes (which normally costs $80) for military families.
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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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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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10 new frog species have been found in India’s Western Ghats which lies along India’s west coast. The rich wildlife in this area is imperiled by rising human impacts.
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A healthy population of the rare snow leopards has been spotted in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan and the Wildlife Conservation Society said the endangered animals have been documented by camera traps at 16 different locations along the Wakhan Corridor.
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Last Tuesday, The Agriculture Minister Larry Cartwright approved a new law which banns shark fishing in the Bahamas waters and prohibited the sale, import and export of shark products.
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The endangered Sambas Stream Toad, or Bornean Rainbow Toad (Ansonia latidisca) was last seen in 1924. Last week, a group of researchers spotted it in Borneo.
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Cole Rasenberger, a 10 years old boy, started to fight huge corporates such as Mcdonalds and KFC in order to save the forests. He started at the age of 8 when he gathered more than 2000 postcards sent to Mcdonalds, which later announced it will soon switch to 100 percent recycled paper for all bags.
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Over the last 3 years there is a significant rise in rhinoceros population after it was decreased during the fights between government troops and Maoists rebels. These fights had left the forests unguarded hunting activity was facing little resistance.
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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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