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About 400 flamingos died in India from electric shock

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:40:00 -1300

The authorities of Indian state Gujarat demand the from the local power company to isolate or remove all ground high-voltage power lines that pass in the areas of breeding flamingos, after the mass death of birds from electric shock, according to a Friday newspaper site Times of India.

According to media reports, about 400 flamingos have died in the last 10 days in Gujarat, where these regal birds arrive to winter in East Asia and Siberia, because of electric shock - in the dark they do not notice the high-voltage wires.Only in one area of Kachchh, a swampy coastal lowlands on which flamingos winter, according to authorities in recent days killed 140 birds. Local residents believe that in fact this number is much higher. The problem of bird deaths in the electrical wiring has increased dramatically in recent years, when the coastal Gujarat were built several new high-voltage lines, the newspaper said.

Department of Environmental Protection of the State demanded that all work on the isolation of high-voltage lines in the nesting grounds of flamingos have been completed until autumn next year - that is, until the new season of wintering flamingos, the newspaper notes.

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Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:26:00 -1300

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Bears found in a garage, settled in the farm

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:48:00 -1300

Two brown bear, found by animal welfare advocates in the summer in a garage of Saint-Petersburg have been moved to farm in the Moscow region, said on Wednesday the St. Petersburg administration.

The bears have been watched since August, when a video was published on the internet, which shows as the animals scratching a iron door of the garage. Media wrote that animals were living in the garage for a half years and owner earned money by making photos with animals.

Animal welfare advocates freed the bears and sent them to the animal shelter in the Leningrad region.

Indian Resort Shimla under monkeys invasion

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:33:00 -1300

Shimla town, located in the foothills of the Himalayas, is suffering from an invasion of monkeys, reported Friday news agency IANS.

Monkeys get into the house, taking everything that is in the fridge, stealing food, ruining gardens and even attack people on the street and bite them, writes the media.

"Six or seven years ago, the monkeys had been catched here and transported to the forest, but now, after their population have grown in the woods, they came back," - said the agency representative of the Department of Wildlife Gulati.

Residents of some districts of Shimla and its suburbs were forced to set up bars on windows and doors to protect own properties.

Floods kills 102 in Thailand

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 11:02:00 -1300

Flood victims in Thailand during the rainy season in the last month are more than 102 men, two remain missing, according to Thai newspaper website Saturday Nation, citing the Ministry of Health.

Previously reported 98 casualties. Floods that occurred in 29 of the 76 Thai provinces, destroyed more than 300,000 homes.

Flooding began after a tropical storm struck south Asia in late July. The victims of the storm were more than 50 people.The peak of the annual seasonal rainfall(monsoon) usually is in August and September. At this time every year there is a partial flooding of the lowest land on the banks of rivers and lakes, as well as in areas located below sea level. In 2011, rainfall broke all records for volume and duration.

Lemmings congest Norway.

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:36:00 -1300

Norwegian scientists and residents of Norway claim about a largest migration of lemmings since 1970. The rodents make it difficult to move by road, according to Norwegian media.

"The roads and yards in cities crammed with lemmings - living and dead. Lemmings, trapped under the wheels of cars, become a familiar pattern on the roads almost everywhere. In some places, according to the drivers, there are so many that the road is just a slippery" - the journalists Norwegian portal Barentsobserver.

The reason for the mass migration of rodents in regions such as Lapland and Finnmark, according to scientists, was an extraordinary increase in their population this year. In the north, over a wide area in the border area between Finland, Norway and Russia lemmings - just about everywhere.

Murmansk scientists also claiming an increase the number of small animals in the northern forests.

In 1983, the lemmings have been made in the Red Book of the Murmansk region.

In three regions of Hungary declared a state of emergency

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:49:00 -1300

The state of emergency was declared in the three areas, near Budapest. Technogenic accident has occurred. The tank with a toxic waste at factory on manufacturing has blown up and poison river spreaded across the area. Some settlements were flooded.

Ecological accident has already carried away lives of four persons, including the child. Another four were missing. More than a hundred people in hospitals.

About 700 thousand cubic meters of solution, which contains heavy metals, flowed from the reservoir. At hit on a skin it leaves strong chemical burns. Now in some places level of a toxic liquid in streets reaches two meters. Experts say that the pumping of chemicals will take more than one week. And on the complete elimination of consequences of the disaster may take years

In the Russia(Altai region)the village have been completely burned down

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:23:00 -1300

on September 8, village Nikolaevka, have been completely destroyed, RIA Novosti reported.

According to preliminary information, burned 433 in which lived 1166 persons. All inhabitants of village have been evacuated and placed in social establishments, houses and bases of rest.

Houses were in a forest, so the flames destroyed all residential buildings "instantly". Currently, the village is still fully covered by fire.

The representative of the Ministry of Emergency Measures has informed that firemen managed not to admit transition fire on the next settlement Bastan. There are still exist threat to three nearby villages

Fires in Russia don't abate since July. The reason for that is the abnormal drought which has broken already many records

White tiger blackened in the Indian zoo

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:55:00 -1300

The cub of a white tigress who was born in June in a zoo of the Indian city of Chennaj, has began to change color and by the present moment all has turned black, writes The Times of India. For the first time this unusual tiger cub had been presented to visitors some days ago, and it became one of the most popular animals in the zoo.

According to representatives of a zoo, except color black tiger is no different from their white relatives. The state of his health is watched by experts, but they have assured that any essential changes in an organism of an animal it isn't observed also feels well.

Veterinarians believe that for the unusual color cub is responsible for 80 percent of the high content of melanin - the dark pigment in the fur of the animal. The color changed a great part of the torso and legs , and though on it still it is possible to notice strips, it completely will turn black, when will grow up.

Usually tigers over the black pigment is dominated by yellow, responsible for the color of the animal. It is this combination of colors can tigers survive in the wild, while their white relatives, as a rule, are born and live only in captivity.

Pushed fish has disturbed the rest of Australians

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:11:00 -1300

Visitors of a beach of the city Darwin located at northern coast of Australia, became victims of attacks large - about meter at length - fishes, informs Northern Territory News.

According to eyewitnesses, fish pursues bathers, pushes them and bites. Australians assume that fish attacks visitors of a beach, trying to protect the territory of dwelling. "If you swim in its territory, she will try to catch up with you and even to strike. It is terrible enough", - one of visitors of a beach in Darwin has told.

Now experts are trying to figure out what a fish does not give the people of Darwin calmly to bathe. Presumably it can be so-called fish-queen.

Visitors of a beach have suggested ecological services to attend to the arisen problem and to take measures "moving" fish far away from coast. However representatives of a society of fishers-fans have assured bathers that fish attacking them is harmless.