A leatherback turtle, dubbed Rantau Abang Princess, has shown up last week on one of Malaysia’s beaches after a 32-year absence. The leatherback is the largest of all sea turtles and the northern state of Terengganu is Malaysia’s sole nesting place for the endangered leatherback.
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The Russian government decided to create 9 new nature reserves and 13 national parks covering a total area of over 3.8 million ha in addition to marine buffer zones of over 1 million ha. Polar bears, walruses, sea otters, and other endangered species will all benefit from the new protected areas.
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The new spectacular giant fruit-eating lizard which discovered in Sierra Madres of Northern Philippines grows up to 2 meters long, displays bright yellow and black stripes and spots across its back, and eats mainly fruit and snails.
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The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has accepted Kenya’s proposal on better protection for rhinos. The proposal includes increasing law enforcement, training of guards, better border surveillance, enhanced rhino monitoring and awareness campaigns in consumer countries.
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will have a meeting of 175 countries in a few days which is expected to protect 8 species of endangered sharks: spiny dogfish, porbeagle shark, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, smooth hammerhead, oceanic whitetip, dusky and sandbar sharks.
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The territorial waters of Maldives which spreads over 90,000 square kilometers will become shark sanctuary. By that Maldives is joining Palau to become the first two nations to forbid shark fishing where both of them are regarded as top scuba-diving destinations.
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Sultan Ibrahim, the ruler of Johor state of Malaysia, bans hunting of wildlife in the state including tigers, bears, deer, mousedeer, tapir and porcupines. In addition the state has breeding program with the intention of releasing animals into the jungle.
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The yellow-spotted bell frog which considered to have been extinct for 30 years has been discovered on a remote farmland in Australia. A colony of around 100 frogs of this special species was identified and this gives hope to find more animals that we thought were extinct.
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A girl from US, Arizona was saved by her dog by keeping her from freezing during night at -30 degree. They were found the morning after about 1km from home by helicopter crew that spotted them.
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Recently, scientists have discovered in mountainous region of Papua New Guinea over fifty new animal species. The new species which were discovered there are 50 spider species, three frogs and a gecko, all were never mentioned on scientific literature before.
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