ASSOCIATED PRESS/WASHINGTON POST
By Courtney Quirin, August 31, 2015
They’re cute, they’re knee-high, they bray like donkeys and they’re a tourist attraction near Cape Town, South Africa. But African penguins — the continent’s only species of the flightless bird — are at risk of extinction.
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MORRO BAY, Calif. – Packed with large nets, wooden boards and a large crate, a dark blue truck scoured the edges of surfer-lined Pismo Beach late one morning earlier this month. Onlookers in the distance tipped them off to what they were searching for.
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By Courtney Quirin, June 23, 2015
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Calling rhino horns a renewable resource, rhino breeders and game reserve owners have taken the South African government to court to try to overturn its ban on the domestic trade of rhino horn.
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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa – Hope the Rhino undergoes facial reconstruction after surviving a horrific poaching attack.
JOHANNESBURG—Trackers on foot and helicopter were searching for a lion after it escaped from a national park in a remote, arid region of South Africa, authorities said.
