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TAIPEI, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Silks Hotel Group (SHG), a multinational hotel chain based in Taiwan, partnered with the non-profit animal protection
Activists urge humane removal of invasive species 03/03/2021 07:57 PM CNA photo March 3, 2021 Taipei, March 3 (CNA) Animal rights activists urged the government Wednesday to devise rules to make sure that invasive species are removed in a proper and humane way, following several reports of cases involving abuses of those animals. The lives of invasive species also matter, and there should be both standard operating procedures for their removal and stricter control of their imports to begin with, said the Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan (EAST). Uncoordinated efforts by local governments...
The Associated Press In this June 20, 2018 photo, a baby female bongo, born May 2, runs at the Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans. About a year after moving into spacious new digs in New Orleans, African animals are doing just what officials from two zoos had hoped: being fruitful and multiplying. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens has a bongo birth announcement: Two female calves of a critically endangered antelope species are ready for their close-ups. The stepsisters — one born Dec. 17 and the other Jan. 8 — are the first offsp...
The cause of the accident at the mine, which was under construction, is under investigation. The explosions on Jan. 10 released 70 tons of debris that blocked a shaft, disabling elevators and trapping workers underground. Rescuers drilled parallel shafts to send down food and nutrients and eventually bring up the survivors on Sunday. Chen Yumin, director of the rescue group, told reporters that the nine workers recovered Monday died more than 400 metres (1,320 feet) below ground. He said there had been two explosions about an hour and a half apart, with the second explosion causing more damag...
BEIJING: Chinese rescue workers have found the bodies of nine more miners after an explosion a fortnight ago, local officials said on Monday, raising the death toll to 10. It comes a day after 11 miners were pulled out alive from the mine in eastern Shandong province where the blast struck. One miner remains unaccounted for. A group of 22 were trapped hundreds of metres underground by the explosion on January 10, with some relying on food and medicine delivered through long shafts drilled by rescue teams. “From Sunday afternoon to this afternoon, rescue workers have not stopped searching, a...