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7. October 2011 09:48
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.
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30. September 2011 10:33

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.
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5. September 2011 10:36

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.
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5. October 2010 07:49

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

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