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(AP) - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an akikiki or Kauai creeper is seen in Kauai, Hawaii. The federal government added the akikiki and 47 other plants and animals to the endangered species list Wendesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dr. Eric VanderWerf.)
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(AFP/File) - The tail of a gray whale surfaces out of the water, at the Ojo de Libre Lagoon in Guerrero Negro, Mexico. Each winter, Pacific gray whales migrate thousands of miles southward from Canada and Alaska to the warm lagoons of Baja California in Mexico.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)
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(AFP/File) - A general view of a frozen lake surrounded by blocks of flats as smoke rises from an thermo-electrical plant in Bucharest in January 2010. Three Romanian environmental organisations filed complaints to the European Commission targetting several "violations" of protected areas in Romania, they said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Daniel Mihailescu)
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(AP) - In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a western spotted skunk peeks out from between the rocks at the Bronx Zoo in New York, Friday, March 5, 2010. Normally native to western North America, this new arrival makes her home in the Bronx Zoo's 'Mouse House.' (AP Photo/WCS, Julie Larsen Maher)
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(Reuters) - A boy runs on a dried up reservoir on the Mekong River during a drought affecting the Thai-Lao border area of Wiang Kaen district, Chiang Rai province, north of Bangkok March 11, 2010. Severe drought has hit Southeast Asian countries, parching the region's major river, Mekong, whose water level has dropped to only 33 centimeters, the lowest in 50 years. Apart from the drought, villagers who live along the Mekong, which flows 4,350 km (2,700 miles) from the glaciers of Tibet to the rice-rich delta of southern Vietnam, attributed the falls of water level to newly constructed dams in China. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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(AFP/File) - A lynx is released during the first experimental reintroduction of two Iberian lynxes in Villafranca de Cordoba, southern Spain in 2009. The Iberian lynx, the world's most endangered feline species, is under renewed threat from a disease affecting animals born in breeding centres in Spain, the conservation programme said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Cristina Quicler)
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(Reuters) - A girl sits on a reservoir on the Mekong River during a drought affecting the Thai-Lao border area of Wiang Kaen district, Chiang Rai province, north of Bangkok March 11, 2010. Severe drought has hit Southeast Asian countries, parching the region's major river, Mekong, whose water level has dropped to only 33 centimeters, the lowest in 50 years. Apart from the drought, villagers who live along the Mekong, which flows 4,350 km (2,700 miles) from the glaciers of Tibet to the rice-rich delta of southern Vietnam, attributed the falls of water level to newly constructed dams in China. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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(Reuters) - Children play on a partially dry reservoir on the Mekong River during a drought affecting the Thai-Lao border area of Wiang Kaen district, Chiang Rai province, north of Bangkok March 11, 2010. Severe drought has hit Southeast Asian countries, parching the region's major river, Mekong, whose water level has dropped to only 33 centimeters, the lowest in 50 years. Apart from the drought, villagers who live along the Mekong, which flows 4,350 km (2,700 miles) from the glaciers of Tibet to the rice-rich delta of southern Vietnam, attributed the falls of water level to newly constructed dams in China. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS ENVIRONMENT)
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(AFP/File) - Persian leopard cubs. Iran has promised to donate two wild leopards to Russia, officials said Sunday, bringing closer the aim of settling the rare animals near the 2014 Winter Olympics host city of Sochi.(AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)
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(AFP/File) - An aerial shot shows the New Caledonia Barrier Reef in the South Pacific. The island chain has enlisted Australia's help to protect the natural site, the world's second biggest reef after Australia's Great Barrier Reef.(AFP/File/Marc Le Chelard)
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(AFP/EUROLUFTBILD/File) - Aerial view taken in February 2010 shows the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The green pitch at Port Elizabeth's World Cup stadium has become an island in a sea of brown, exempt from water limits imposed due to a drought that has scorched the land outside.(AFP/EUROLUFTBILD/File)
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(AFP) - Winter in Venice : A man holds his umbrella broken by the wind on the Ponte di Calatrava (Calatrava bridge) during a snow storm in Venice. (AFP/Marco Sabadin)
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(AFP/File) - Khumbu Glacier at Everest-Khumbu region, one of the longest glaciers in the world. A respected international scientific body will conduct the independent review of the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, the world body said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Subel Bhandari)
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(AFP/File) - The Khumbu Glacier, one of the longest glaciers in the world, in the Everest-Khumbu region of Nepal. A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said.(AFP/File/Prakash Mathema)
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(AFP/File) - A farmer (bottom L) plants rice in a paddy field in the scenic Banaue rice terraces in the northern mountainous Ifugao province in 2008. A worsening drought is exacting a terrible toll on the world-famous mountain rice terraces of the northern Philippines, local officials said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Tammy David)
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(AFP) - Mother's love : A new-born giraffe is licked by its mother in the giraffe house of the Budapest Zoo and Botanic Garden in the Hungarian capital. (AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)
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(AFP/DDP) - Spring and ice : A buttercup blossoms through the snow in a park the eastern German town of Ostrau. (AFP/DDP/Eckehard Schulz)
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(AFP/File) - Skeleton of a dinosaur is pictured on display at a Tokyo museum. Dinosaurs were wiped out by a huge asteroid that smashed into Earth 65 million years ago with the force of a billion atomic bombs, scientists said Thursday, hoping to lay an age-old debate to rest once and for all.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
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(AFP/HO/File) - This photo received from Taronga Zoo on March 11 shows a newborn male Asian elephant calf in the zoo's elephant barn. The calf born on March 10 has continued to make progress, with the zoo's senior veterinarian saying the calf is slowly getting stronger and is now walking around independently and has suckled from his mother, "Porntip."(AFP/HO/File/Bobby-Jo Vial)
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(Reuters) - A giraffe foal tries to stand shortly after being born at Aalborg zoo in northern Jutland February 11, 2010. REUTERS/Henning Bagger/Scanpix (DENMARK - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) DENMARK OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN DENMARK
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(AP) - A baby King penguin (aptenodytes patagonicus) seen with a King penguin, in Basel Zoo, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/ Georgios Kefalas)
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(AFP/File) - Rubble from a house demolished by the earthquake is being removed in Constitucion, Chile on March 4. Two waste experts had an epiphany after touring quake-hit Constitucion: clean up the city with volunteers, and pay for it by selling recyclables pulled from the rubble.(AFP/File/Daniel Garcia)
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(AFP/File) - A picture taken in February 2010 shows the Churchill dam in the Kareedouw region, west of Port Elizabeth. Weather officials say the only real solution for the shrinking water supply is flooding when the rainy season begins again in September. The last big floods in the Eastern Cape province were in 1981, and to a lesser extent in 2006.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)
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(AFP/File) - A photograph touches a gray whale during a whale-watching tour in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon in Guerrero Negro, Mexico. Each winter, Pacific gray whales migrate thousands of miles southward from Canada and Alaska to the warm lagoons of Baja California in Mexico.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)
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(AFP/File) - A green sea turtle at the turtle conservation section at Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysians' voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores, conservationists have warned.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)
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(AFP/HO/Great Barrier Reef Marine Park/File) - Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority issued photo shows a section of bleached coral reef in Australia. The Copenhagen summit set a goal of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius and pledged a total of nearly 30 billion dollars in aid to poor countries by 2012, but many groups warn the pact is not strong enough.(AFP/HO/Great Barrier Reef Marine Park/File)
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(AFP/File) - A man holds an egg from an extinct elephant bird. In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)
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(AFP/File) - Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace observe one minute of silence after placing 100 crosses in central Hong Kong to mourn the deaths of people caused by climate change. Green groups and most scientists say the Copenhagen document, a limited pact made after China angrily ruled out binding commitments, falls far short of what is necessary to curtail global warming.(AFP/File/Antony Dickson)
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(AP) - This photo taken Feb. 10, 2010 shows the Murrells Inlet Marsh Walk in Murrells Inlet, S.C.. The free walkway, with views of the marsh and water, connects a string of eight seafood restaurants in the hamlet south of Myrtle Beach. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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(Reuters) - Lolo, a black Jaguar, plays with her newborn spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda February 16, 2010. The two-month-old cub made his first public appearance on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS IMAGES OF THE DAY)
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(AP) - A ring-tailed Lemur plays with a family member at the Spring River Zoo in Roswell, N.M. on Thursday, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Roswell Daily Record, Mark Wilson)
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(AFP/File) - A green sea turtle hatchling is pictured swimming in a tank at the turtle conservancy section of Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur. Conservationists warned Wednesday that Malaysians' voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)
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(AP) - In this Monday, March 8, 2010 photo released by the Colorado Department of Transportation, a portion of a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70, which has been closed after a rock slide, is shown in Glenwood Springs, Colo. The slide struck around midnight Sunday near the Hanging Lake Tunnel in Glenwood Canyon, a deep and narrow chasm about 110 miles west of Denver, the Colorado Department of Transportation said. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Transportation)
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(AFP/HO/Greenpeace/File) - A whale is harpooned in the Southern Ocean. A restaurant in Santa Monica, California faces criminal charges after being accused of selling sushi made from whale meat, the sale of which is strictly banned in the United States, prosecutors have said.(AFP/HO/Greenpeace/File/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert)
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(AP) - This photo taken Feb. 8, 2010 shows the sky turning color as the sunrise is seen from atop Mount Sinai in Egypt. (AP Photo/Steven Derry)
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(AP) - Back-dropped by the golden shrine of the Dome of the Rock, Dr. Jill Biden, wife of U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, not present, looks on during her visit to Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. The U.S. is pleased with the resumption of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians and will back those willing to 'take risks for peace,' Biden said Tuesday during the highest-level visit to Israel by an Obama administration official. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)
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(AP) - In this Jan. 7, 1998 file photo, the shadow of Mount Sinai stretches across the valley at the foot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai peninsula some 240 miles southeast of Cairo. The steeple from a church inside the monastery is seen at right. The monastery, founded in the 4th century in this isolated setting, attracts thousands of visitors and pilgrims from all over the world every year. (AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)
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(Reuters) - One-month-old South China tiger cub Niuniu is seen at a zoo in Luoyang, Henan province, February 20, 2010. The Chinese New Year began on February 14th and according to the Lunar calendar, it is the Year of the Tiger. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
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(AFP) - Smoke billows from several chimneys at a factory in Jilin in northern China. China's environment is "still deteriorating", a senior official has said as the booming nation burnt record amounts of coal and lagged behind in meeting its energy-saving goals.(AFP/AFP)
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(AP) - This photo taken Feb. 8, 2010 shows the early morning light illuminating the rocky terrain near Mount Sinai in Egypt. (AP Photo/Tracy Hopton)
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(AP) - This photo taken Feb. 26, 2010, shows a plaquet on the wall from the rock band U2 at Windmill Lane studios, were the group recorded many of their albums. Many of Dublin's most iconic sites can be found situated close to the River Liffey. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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(AFP/File) - File photo of a young male elephant calf born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. A baby elephant believed to have died during labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying expert opinion that such an outcome would take a "miracle".(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
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(Reuters) - People cool off in the water at a beach in Melbourne January 31, 2009. REUTERS/Mick Tsikas
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(AFP/File) - A row of rice terraces rises like a stairway in Bontoc, the Cordillera mountain region of the northern Phliippines in 2005. A worsening drought is exacting a terrible toll on the world-famous mountain rice terraces of the northern Philippines, local officials said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)
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(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Demonstrators protest Japanese dolphin hunts in Los Angeles, California. A restaurant owner in the US state faces up to a year in prison and a fine of up to 200,000 dollars for allegedly selling whale meat sushi.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)
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(AFP/File) - A Chilean flag flutters next to a destroyed house in Constitucion, some 300 kms south of Santiago, on March 4. About a third of the buildings in Constitucion, population 50,000, were seriously damaged by the powerful 8.8 magnitude quake that struck south-central Chile early February 27. Most of those buildings are unsafe and will be demolished.(AFP/File/Martin Bernetti)
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(AFP/File) - A man looks at a collapsed house in Constitucion, some 300 kms south of Santiago, on March 4. Two waste experts had an epiphany after touring quake-hit Constitucion: clean up the city with volunteers, and pay for it by selling recyclables pulled from the rubble.(AFP/File/Martin Bernetti)
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(AFP/File) - Volunteers of the organization "A roof for Chile" build a basic house at El Centinela hill, an area affected by the quake and tsunami in Constitucion, Chile, on March 8.(AFP/File/Claudio Santana)
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(AFP/File) - A picture taken in February 2010 shows the Churchill dam in the Kareedouw region, west of Port Elizabeth. Rains failed during the wet season now reaching an end, and the 11 reservoirs that supply the city are falling by five percent every month.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)
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(AFPTV) - Each winter, Pacific gray whales migrate thousands of miles southward from Canada and Alaska to the warm lagoons of Baja California, in Mexico. Duration: 02:05(AFPTV)
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(AFP/File) - Smoke billows out of the chimneys of the Kolaghat Thermal Power Station in Kolaghat in 2007. China and India announced on Tuesday they would back the 11th-hour climate accord hammered out in Copenhagen in December, removing doubts that the world's two most populous countries fully supported the contested deal.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)
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(AP) - FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2008 file photo, Tex, a Tasmanian Devil, sits in his enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Australian scientists say Wednesday, March 10, 2010, they have found a colony of Tasmanian devils that are genetically different from their peers and so far resistant to the face cancer that has decimated the population. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
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(AFP/File) - An encounter with a friendly whale set off the development of a small-scale whale-watching industry in the remote spot off Mexico's northwest Baja California peninsula, where gray whales breed and nurse their calves each year after migrating thousands of miles (kilometers) from Canada and Alaska.(AFP/File/Luis Acosta)
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(AFP) - Beach Birds : Dancers from the Lyon Opera Ballet perform a scene from "Beach Birds" during a dress rehearsal before opening night at the Joyce Theater in New York. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
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(AFP) - Lyon Opera Ballet : Dancers from the Lyon Opera Ballet perform a scene from "Beach Birds" during a dress rehearsal before opening night at the Joyce Theater in New York. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
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(AFP) - Cali egret : A snowy egret (Egretta thula) flies in the lake of Las Garzas eco-park, in Cali, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. (AFP/Luis Robayo)
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(Reuters) - Lolo, a black Jaguar, plays with her newborn spotted cub inside their cage at Jordan's zoo in Yaduda February 16, 2010. The two-month-old cub made his first public appearance on Tuesday after being born to Lolo and Falah, who originate from South America. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: SOCIETY ANIMALS)
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