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The State Government is warning livestock owners to move their cattle to higher ground ahead of this weekend’s wild weather in north and central Queensland.
Primary Industries Minister Tim Mulherin says residents can check with the RSPCA if they are unsure what to do with their animals.
He says livestock should be properly identified and is cautioning [...]

Conservationists are desperately trying to rescue southern hairy-nosed wombats they say farmers in South Australia have buried alive.
The ABC’s Stateline program has been on hand as the conservationists work to dig the wombats out.
In the eastern Mount Lofty Ranges near Adelaide, conservationists say up to 10 wombats may have been buried alive by farmers’ ploughing [...]

The Department of Sustainability and Environment’s (DSE) director of forests has denied suggestions he acted in the best interests of logging company VicForests, rather than threatened animals, in relation to logging at Brown Mountain north of Orbost.
Lee Miezis told the Supreme Court sitting in Sale, he had seen a video of an endangered long-footed potoroo, [...]

A blue-green algae outbreak has been declared in the Murray River at Euston and Robinvale.
The Sunraysia Regional Algal Coordinating Committee issued a red alert yesterday.
The alert means the water is unsuitable for domestic or recreational use and might also be a threat to animals.
Town water supplies at Robinvale and Euston are being treated to make [...]

A new study has found the Australian dingo may be the oldest breed of dog in the world.
An international study has found that the dingo, along with the new guinea singing dog, are most like the dogs domesticated in Asia and the Middle East thousands of years ago.
Dr Alan Wilton, from the University of New [...]

A dog has been reunited with his owners five years after he vanished.
Chocolate labrador Iggy was 18 months old when he went missing.
He was reunited with the Howard family of Rawtenstall, in north-west England, after being found wandering the streets of Leicester, 200 kilometres away.
The dog’s microchip details led to owner Karen Howard, who said [...]

A conservation group wants Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) scrapped to protect endangered animals.
Still Wild Still Threatened is surveying spotted quolls and Tasmanian devils in areas of the Upper Florentine Valley marked for logging.
The group’s spokesman, Ed Hill, says the logging of old growth forests destroys the habitats of devils and quolls.
“We want the RFA to [...]

Wildlife carers in north Queensland say the wet weather has led to a big increase in the number of animals requiring care.
In the past 12 months carers across the region have looked after 400 possums, 138 kangaroos and 680 birds.
Eleanor Pollock from North Queensland Wildlife Care says they are also dealing with a shortage of [...]

Rural exporters are defending live cattle shipments to Asia after calls from a New South Wales mayor to ban the trade.
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore says live exports are cruel and she would like to see all Australian meat processed domestically.
But the general manager of South-East Asia Livestock, Fred Troncone, says the practice is humane.
“I [...]

More than 3,000 fish are being released for breeding at a reservoir at Chewton near Castlemaine.
Fisheries Victoria says the macquarie perch is an endangered species and needs help to survive.
The fish used to be common until the late 1800s, but is threatened by habitat changes and introduced species.
Spokesman Travis Dowling says the Expedition Pass Reservoir [...]

State Government-owned timber company VicForests is due to call the first of its witnesses today at the Brown Mountain logging case being heard by the Supreme Court in Sale.
Current and former staff are among those expected to give evidence.
Conservation group Environment East Gippsland says logging of old-growth trees at the site north of Orbost poses [...]

People illegally hunting deer and other animals across Gippsland have been warned they are the target of an ongoing police and government crackdown.
Operation Keratin is a joint operation between the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE), Parks Victoria and Victoria Police.
Five people were arrested at Wilsons Promontory National Park last week, and are expected to [...]

The Australian Government says it has been swamped by overseas requests for camels since efforts to control feral camels in Central Australia attracted international media attention.
Camel industry representatives say they have been receiving an average of four inquiries a day from people in the Middle East and North Africa who think Australia is offering free [...]

The Waterways Wildlife Park is backing calls for an investigation into the removal of eight koalas by the RSPCA.
The koalas were removed from the park, at Gunnedah in north-west New South Wales, at the start of last month when RSPCA officers found them to be stressed and malnourished.
But park owner Nancy Small is denying the [...]

There is new hope in the fight against the disease wiping out the Tasmanian devil.
Researchers have found a colony of devils in the state’s north-west showing signs of immunity to the deadly facial tumour disease.
The disease has killed about 70 per cent of the state’s devils, spreading from the east coast to the west.
University of [...]

The Palmerston City Council says Parks and Wildlife has rejected its application to be allowed to remove packs of aggressive dogs that have been stalking council workers.
The Palmerston Mayor, Robert Macleod, says a pack of about 12 dogs, which look like a dingo cross breed, has been stalking council workers at the local tip and [...]

Jalpaiguri, Sep 18 (ANI): Captive elephants, used by the forest officials to supervise the area, enjoyed a royal treat at the Jaldapara Sanctuary in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.

The forest officials use elephants to supervise the area since most of the sanctuary is inaccessible by vehicle or on foot.

Every year on the occasion of Vishwakarma [...]

London, September 15 (ANI): UK’s great drummer Bobby Graham has died of stomach cancer at the age of 69.

The percussionist had played on more than 15,000 records, which saw him working with stars like The Animals, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones.

However, one of his best efforts was the hit track ‘You Really Got Me’, [...]

Majuli (Assam), Sep 12 (ANI): The inhabitants of Majuli Island in Assam perform a Hindu ritual to check the rapid soil erosion near the banks of the river Brahmaputra.

Swelling water of river Brahmaputra river has eroded the land and the residents fear that their houses near the banks of the [...]

Washington, Sep 9 (ANI): American actor David Hasselhoff has revealed that she was left terrified after an encounter with a tiger shark on a recent shark-spotting trip to South Africa.

Hasselhoff, 57, got up close and personal with the animals as he made a series of films, entitled ‘David Hasselhoff’s Sharkwatch’, for The Underwater Channel.

But [...]