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In this image made off MRTV video footage, a rare white elephant is caught in the jungles in Maungdaw township in northwestern Rakhine state, Myanmar. The rare white elephant has been captured in the jungles of northwestern Myanmar, a mostly Buddhist country where the animals are considered good omens, state media reported Tuesday, June 29, 2010. White elephants, actually albinos, have for centuries been revered in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other Asian nations. They were normally kept and pampered by monarchs and considered a symbol of royal power and prosperity.
Animal   Environment   Photos   Thailand   Wikipedia: Elephant
 Jakarta Post 
Thailand to build DNA database to protect elephants
Thailand Natural Resources and Environment Minister Preecha Rengsomboonsuk has vowed to solve within a year issues related to Thailand's elephants. Preecha planned to build a DNA database on 4,000 or... (photo: AP / MRTV)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the press following his remarks to the high-level segment of the COP17/CMP7 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, 6 December, 2011.
Climate   Photos   UN   Washington   Wikipedia: World Economic Forum
 The New York Times 
Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord
WASHINGTON — Critics and supporters alike agree that the U.N. forum for negotiating international climate change policies is an ungainly mess, its annual gatherings marked by discord, disarray... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
Fish are drying in sun light - dried fish  The State 
Rising wealth of Asians straining world fish stock
MANILA, Philippines - U.N. marine experts say rising wealth in Asia and fishing subsidies are among factors driving overexploitation of the world's fish resources,... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Asia   Environment   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Asia
Elephant at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. E2ride bike tours opened in 2009 and is the area's only historical bicycle tour company in Riverside-Avondale, San Marco, Olde Mandarin, Springfield and Jacksonville Beach  The Guardian 
How China is driving the grim rise in illegal ivory
Demand from Asia is driving the killing of Africa's elephants for their tusks, with seizures hitting a record high in 2011 following a ban in 1989 2011 saw the highest amount of illegally-traded ivory... (photo: Creative Commons / Excel23)
Animals   Asia   China   Ivory   Photos   Wikipedia: Ivory
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Seaweeds - Seafoods The Observer
The future of food
Seaweed harvesting in Bali. From seaweed to slime, algae is the future of food, says Professor Mark Edwards Photograph: Ed Wray/AP How can we feed the 2.5 billion more... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Agriculture   Food   Indonesia   Photos   Wikipedia: Seaweed
Panthera tigris | Animals in zoos | Beijing Zoo m&c
Malaysian wildlife officers step up search for wayward tiger
Kuala Lumpur - Wildlife officers have stepped up efforts to track down one of two tigers that allegedly stalked two rubber plantation workers in northern Malaysia, a... (photo: Creative Commons / Shizhao)
Environment   Nature   Photos   Wikipedia: Tiger   Wildlife
 KLps1 - December06 - China - Industrial Pollution - Environment - Traffic Pollution - Emissions - Air Pollution - Climate Change. (ps) The Guardian
China report spells out "grim" climate change risks
* Climate change could trip up China's growth -govt review * More chaotic weather could cut China's grain production * More provinces to face severe water shortages *... (photo: WN/Patricia)
China   Climate   Photos   Pollution   Wikipedia: Climate change
Chinese President Hu Jintao waves upon his arrival to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday Nov. 4, 2010. Al Jazeera
China's cultural front against the West
President Hu Jintao of China made headlines in the early days of the new year saying China and the West were engaged in an escalating culture war, calling on Chinese... (photo: AP / Francois Mori)
China   Cultural   Headlines   Photos   Wikipedia/Hu Jintao
FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 file photo, the Zenit-2SB rocket with the Phobos-Ground probe blasts off from its launch pad at the Cosmodrome Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Times of India
Russia's Mars spacecraft falls in Pacific Ocean
MOSCOW: Doomed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe spacecraft, which had been stuck in Earth orbit for two months, crashed down in the Pacific Ocean late Sunday. Launched Nov... (photo: AP)
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