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		<title>Rhino killings surge to an average of more than 5 a day last week</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/rhino-killings-surge-to-an-average-of-more-than-5-a-day-last-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildlife crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The South African government has just released the rhino statistics covering the last week and there has been a shocking surge in rhino poaching. So far this year 350 rhino have been killed that&#8217;s 37 up on last weeks figures or an average of 5.3 rhino killed each day. The surge has been driven by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International taxonomists name their Top 10 new species from 2012</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/international-taxonomists-names-their-top-10-new-species-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fungi and lichen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plant life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reptiles and Amphibians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new species]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of  Carolus Linnaeus &#8211; the scientist who established the naming system for species &#8211; the world&#8217;s top taxonomists have released their latest Top 10 new species list. The latest list  covers 2012 and is the 6th annual list they have produced. The choice of this years top species covers a wide range of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s newest country go in hunt of rhinos</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/worlds-newest-country-go-in-hunt-of-rhinos/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/worlds-newest-country-go-in-hunt-of-rhinos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south sudan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s newest country, South Sudan, has announced that it is to mount a ground and aerial search to discover if the rhino is truly extinct in the country or if the &#8216;fog of war&#8217; meant that the rhino were just not seen. The rhino was last confirmed in Sudan in the 1990&#8242;s and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuisance noise becomes important whale study</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/nuisance-noise-becomes-important-whale-study/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/nuisance-noise-becomes-important-whale-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 08:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leya Musa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildlife surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Noise from earthquake sensors is being used to study the fin whale. The fin whale is one of the least studied and understood of the whales species and the ability to use earthquake sensors to track the whales could open up a small window to their mysterious world. The fin whale makes calls in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will ice sheets collapse in a warming world? &#8211; probably not</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/will-ice-sheets-collapse-in-a-warming-world-probably-not/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/will-ice-sheets-collapse-in-a-warming-world-probably-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Impacts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Collapsing ice sheets and rising sea levels are often described as a feature of a warming world and many climate scientists predict that this will happen thanks to climate change. But a recently published study could quite literally blow those predictions out of the water. One of the ways to look to the future is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Indonesian courts orders land ownership back to tribes</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/indonesian-courts-orders-land-ownership-back-to-tribes/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/indonesian-courts-orders-land-ownership-back-to-tribes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Impacts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999 a new law was bought into effect in Indonesia which saw vast swathes of forest taken into state ownership. That law was over-ruled yesterday by the Constitutional Court and following its judicial review, the land ownership was ordered to be returned to local indigenous people. The move will have major impacts for development in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lion cub in Twitter sale is seized by authorities</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/lion-cub-in-twitter-sale-is-siezed-by-authorities/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/lion-cub-in-twitter-sale-is-siezed-by-authorities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pet trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday a lion cub was put up for sale on the Twitter web site. Photographs of the cub was tweeted together with a price tag of Dh30,000 by a Dubai based pet shop. Today wildlife officials of the United Arab Emirates have taken the cub into custody. The pet shop owner who is currently [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>United States sentences Vietnamese rhino traders to 3.5 years in prison</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/united-states-sentences-vietnamese-rhino-traders-to-3-5-years-in-prison/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/united-states-sentences-vietnamese-rhino-traders-to-3-5-years-in-prison/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildlife crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Judge went easy on two rhino horn traders in the United States yesterday when she sentences one to 42 months and another to 46 month in prison. This was less than the sentences that the US Federal prosecutors called for. The father and son team who were Vietnamese emigrants were also fined and ordered [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>3 rhino a day killed in South Africa last week</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/3-rhino-a-day-killed-last-week/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/3-rhino-a-day-killed-last-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rhinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South African authorities have just released the weekly statistics for rhino poaching in the country. Last week 21 rhino were killed taking the total so far this year to 313. The 21 rhinos killed in the last week means that the current average of rhinos being poached is 3 a day. The Kruger National Park [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>New snake species named after assassinated forest campaigner</title>
		<link>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/new-snake-species-named-after-assassinated-forest-campaigner/</link>
		<comments>http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2013/new-snake-species-named-after-assassinated-forest-campaigner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Heath</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reptiles and Amphibians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honduras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snakes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A deadly but beautiful new species of palm pit-viper snake has been named after the assassinated forest campaigner Mario Guifarro. The gorgeous new species was discovered by scientists during two expeditions in 2010 aimed at studying the fauna of Texiguat Wildlife Refuge, one of the most endemism-rich and diverse highland forests in Mesoamerica. The new [...]]]></description>
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