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Bulgaria Allows Bear Hunting, Armenia Takes Gentler Approach to Ursine Raids on Fields and Orchards

A Eurasian brown bear at a zoo in England. Photo: Scott Baverstock / Creative Commons . With hungry brown bears posing a nuisance to farmers in Armenia and Bulgaria , the two countries have taken dramatically opposing measures to solve the problem, with one legalizing hunting and the other organizing “night patrols” to protect both animals and crops…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bulgaria Allows Bear Hunting, Armenia Takes Gentler Approach to Ursine Raids on Fields and Orchards

Super Rare Asian "Unicorn" Captured, Dies in Captivity

Image Credit: AP Photo/World Wide Fund for Nature As far as endangered species go, it’s mostly bad news , with the occasional positive story . Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola, one of the rarest animals on the planet. The Bolikhamxay Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office, advised by the IUCN Saola Working Group and the Lao Programme of the Wildlife Conservation Societ… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Super Rare Asian "Unicorn" Captured, Dies in Captivity