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Kenya relocates zebras and wildebeest to feed its hungry lions
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on February 13th, 2010
Times (UK): Shortly after dawn yesterday, as a large orange sun shone across a classic Rift Valley scene of grassland, acacia trees and misty blue hills, the silence was broken by the thumping blades of a helicopter. The pilot made low, buzzing runs at small herds of zebra, coaxing them towards a 50m-wide funnel-shaped trap with Tarpaulin walls hidden among the trees. Once the stamping, snorting animals were inside the funnel, rangers in camouflage fatigues shouted and used sticks to ...
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Heavy rains bring Spanish wetlands back to life
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on February 6th, 2010
Independent (UK): An environmentally valuable expanse of Spanish wetlands that dried up through mismanagement of water resources and drought is once again awash with water due to heavy rainfall, an official said Tuesday. Over 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) of the wetlands of the Tablas de Daimiel National Park are flooded, the highest level since 1997, up from just 67 hectares on January 7, a park spokesman said. The heavy rains also put out an underground peat fire which had raged at the ...