The house was ravaged — its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull.
The dog found by workers was too far gone to save — another example of how [...]
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Environmentalists hope beavers will soon be reintroduced to Scotland, subject to approval by the Scottish Executive. If the trial reintroduction gets the go-ahead three families of European beavers, about 15 to 20 animals, will be brought over from Norway and released into the Knapdale Forest [...]
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The epic migration journeys made by wildlife is to be chronicled in one of the most ambitious series of natural history programmes ever made by the BBC.
The World On The Move radio series will last almost a year as it follows creatures as diverse as elephants, butterflies and whales across the globe.
It is the largest [...]
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Fishermen in Bangladesh beat a rare river dolphin to death because they had not seen “this kind of creature before,” according to local news accounts.
The fishermen then tried to sell the body of the Ganges River dolphin as a rare fish. When they failed, the men gave up and dumped it outside a museum — [...]
This Panther is about to pounce. The energetic, electro-funk duo will drop their second full length, 14kt God, February 19 on Kill Rock Stars. The follow up to last year’s Secret Lawns (Fryk Beat) will be their first release with the label and promises to be as neurotic and danceable as ever, addressing such subjects [...]
Margaret Williams, WWF’s Director of the Bering Sea ecoregion program, called for urgent action to save polar bears at the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing entitled “Examining Threats and Protections [...]
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After releasing their debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse (Burly Time) to rave reviews, Raleigh, North Carolina’s jangly folk-pop troubadours Bowerbirds have signed a deal with Dead Oceans. They will join a roster that includes such diverse and innovative bands as Dirty Projectors, Evangelicals and Bishop Allen. First on the label’s agenda for Bowerbirds [...]
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In this post, I’m enclosing an email I received from the Humane Society of the United States regarding their “Factory Farming Campaign.” I’m posting it here for educational purposes. Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo is going to stay neutral on this and many other animal-related issues. That is, I usually try to [...]
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Dear EELStheband.com visitor,
EELS have just added American dates to the 2008 tour. Here are the latest added EELS tour dates:
March
28 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
29 Washington, DC Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
31 Boston, MA Somerville Theatre
April
1 New York, NY Highline Ballroom
2 New York, NY [...]
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