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Newborn twins die in Brazil after 'docile' family dog attacks

Katherine Davison
7NEWS
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:24 UTC
dog attack
Newborn twin sisters have tragically died after being attacked by their family dog in their home.

The disturbing incident took place just 26 days after twins Anne and Analu were born.

Brazilian local media report the pair's mother Elaine heard a sound coming from the room the twins were in and found their family dog, the breed of which has not been reported, attacking her daughters.

She managed to rip the dog off them and called a family friend who is a nurse to help the tots.

The nurse gave the girls first aid before they were taken to Maria Pedreira Barbosa Municipal Hospital, with doctors saying one of the girls was declared dead on arrival, whilst the other was in a serious condition.
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Woman killed in leopard attack in Nainital, India - 3rd such death in district in a month

Prashant Jha
Times of India
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:31 UTC
Stock image of leopard
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A 54-year-old woman, identified as Bhagwati Devi, was killed by a leopard in Nainital's Kathgodam police station area on Monday morning. This is the third death in a leopard attack in the Nainital district in just a month's time.

According to locals, the attack took place in district's Sunkot village when Devi was going to a temple with her son Navin. "The entire area is surrounded by forests and leopards have been spotted around the village earlier as well. Devi was going to the village temple with her son when the leopard suddenly jumped out of the forest and attacked her," said Manish Gauni, a panchayat member of the village.
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450 billion locusts have been killed this year, but devastating swarms still ravage Africa, India and the Middle East

James Pasley
Business Insider
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:33 UTC
A man takes pictures of a swarm of locusts in Allahabad, India
© SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP via Getty Images
A man takes pictures of a swarm of locusts in Allahabad, India, on June 11, 2020.
Massive swarms of locusts have devastated large swathes of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East since January, threatening food supplies for millions.

This year, Kenya had its worst infestation in 70 years, and India, Ethiopia, and Somalia had the worst infestations they've had in 25 years.

The reason for the outbreaks, according to The New York Times, is climate change, which has caused warmer weather and more rain — ideal conditions for locusts to thrive.

Alongs with the weather, poor monitoring due to armed conflicts — especially in war-torn Yemen, where the current outbreak began — and a lack of resources caused by the coronavirus pandemic, has led to locusts swelling in numbers that haven't been reported in decades.

Without more intervention, locusts could cause millions of people in 23 countries to go hungry by December, according to NBC News.


Comment: Devastating swarms of locusts now headed for the Middle East - UN forecaster

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Tiger leaps onto boat, snatches and kills man in West Bengal, India - 4th fatal attack in the Sunderbans in 2020

Prasanta Paul
indiawest.com
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:31 UTC
In this photograph taken on Dec. 21, 2014,
© STR/AFP
In this photograph taken on Dec. 21, 2014, a Royal Bengal Tiger pauses as it walks through a jungle clearing in Kaziranga National Park, some 280 kms east of Guwahati.
A Bengal tiger snatched a man off a fishing boat in eastern India, dragging him away into a mangrove swamp as his children looked on in horror, the man's son said June 19.

The attack happened June 18 as Sushil Manjhi and his son and daughter were crab fishing in a stream in the Sunderbans National Park. The tiger leaped aboard the boat and clamped its jaws on Manjhi's neck, said Sushil's son, Jyotish.

The tiger "quickly flung my father on his back and gave a giant leap before disappearing into the forest," Jyotish said by telephone from his village of Lahiripur in West Bengal state. He said he and his sister tried to beat the animal with sticks and a knife, but the thrashing had no effect. His father was dragged away and was presumed dead.
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Bear attacks 2 hikers in northern Italy


The Brussels Times
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:25 UTC
bear
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Two hikers - a 59-year-old man and his 28-year-old son - were attacked on Monday evening by a bear in the Dolomites, in northern Italy. The province of Trento announced this. Both men were taken to the hospital.

The pair were hiking on a footpath on the when the young man suddenly came face to face with the animal, falling in the process. The father attempted to help his son, and was injured in the process.

The father suffered fractures to one leg and deep wounds, but is not in mortal danger. The son has relatively superficial wounds.

The Trentino region has dozens of bears, which sometimes enter inhabited areas or attack animals on farms. In 1999, a project was started to bring the animals back into the area.
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Lightning bolt kills man and 4 oxen in Cambodia

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:57 UTC
On June 21, 2020, at 5:30 pm, a flash of lightning killed a 68 years old man, Meas Chrun, and his 4 oxen, in Kbeng village, Borseth district, Kampong Speu.

On June 21, 2020, at 5:30 pm, a flash of lightning killed a 68 years old man, Meas Chrun, and his 4 oxen, in Kbeng village, Borseth district, Kampong Speu.
A man and four oxen were killed by lightning as they returned from a rice field to their home in Baset district's Svay Rompear commune in Kampong Speu on Sunday.

Commune police chief Em Sarorn identified the victim as 69-year-old Mean Chrun.

Before the incident, Chrun and his two grandsons travelled by oxcart to the rice fields, about 700m from their home, to plough the land. His grandsons returned home in the afternoon with a bucket of snails they picked at the field for their parents to cook for dinner, Sarorn said.

"At 5:30 pm, while it was raining, the victim was riding the oxcart back home, but was struck and killed by lightning. His four oxen also died."
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Wrong place, wrong time: Asian Desert Warbler turns up in Northumberland, UK

Mike Carr
BirdGuides
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 11:14 UTC
Asian Desert Warbler
© Mark Leitch
Asian Desert Warbler
Asian Desert Warbler is one of those species that has an 'old-school' rare element of mysticism about it. Indeed, for any millennial or below birders, it has simply been unobtainable - the last record was a single-observer individual in Kent in 2012, with the previous twitchable example back in 2000.

So, when Mike Carr discovered one on Holy Island, Northumberland, and the bird chose to play ball and hang around a while, it inevitably sparked the biggest twitch of 2020. Mike takes up the story: "Monday 15 June will live long in my memory. I'd taken the day off work to pin down some Merlin nests in The Cheviots, but heavy fog had put the mockers on that.

"Rather fortuitously, just as I was leaving the fells, my friend Richard Drew rang me to say he had had a subalpine warbler species on The Snook, Holy Island. A great bird and, with the chance it could be Moltoni's Warbler, I headed there. Thankfully, a forgiving 3.9-m tide allowed me just enough of a buffer to get onto the island ahead of the incoming sea.

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'Worst outbreak ever': Nearly a million pigs culled in Nigeria due to swine fever

Orji Sunday
The Guardian
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:30 UTC
African swine fever has decimated the livelihoods of many farmers
© Kacper Pempel/Reuters
African swine fever has decimated the livelihoods of many farmers.
Hundreds of thousands of pigs have been culled by Nigerian farmers in response to an explosion of African swine fever (ASF). The outbreak began around Lagos and parts of neighbouring Ogun state earlier this year, pig farmers say, but has now spread to many other parts of the country.

In the absence of official data, farmers who spoke to the Guardian estimated that nearly a million pigs had been put down so far. Mrs Bello, a farmer at Lagos-based Oke-Aro, the largest pig co-operative in west Africa, who preferred not to give her first name, said the co-operative alone had culled around 500,000 pigs. So far the virus has spread to more than a quarter of Nigeria's 36 states.

In the past decade, ASF has regularly surfaced in several parts of Africa. Between 2016 and 2019, more than 60­ outbreaks were reported across the continent.

But the recent wave of infections is the worst by far. "We have never experienced anything of this scale in the past. This is the worst and largest outbreak ever," says Ayo Omirin, a pig farmer at Oke-Aro, who has lost more than 600 of his 800 pigs.

Comment: Outbreaks like this along with the coronavirus crisis, in addition to earth changes affecting crop growth, and the losing value of currency which is set to get much worse in Western nations in particular, have made the production, availability, purchasing and distribution of food - a MAJOR global issue the likes of which we haven't seen in generations.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Food, wealth and bees gone


Adapt 2030
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:18 UTC
food
China finally confirming publicly 4/5 of regular harvest incoming this year, but other sources now saying 1/3 lost, this explains why a giant campaign to get farmers back to the country side to start farming while the central government raises vegetable prices to give newly resettled farmers a livelihood opportunity. New study out about "bee friendly" pesticides, they are not so "bee friendly" after all. Global trade and travel in shatters.


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Fish

Rare deep-sea unicornfish pops up in fishing net off Imizu, Japan

Mamoru Takatsu and Natsuki Edogawa
The Asahi Shimbun
Sun, 21 Jun 2020 10:40 UTC
North Pacific Crestfish

North Pacific Crestfish
When Taku Suganuma hauled up his fixed fishing net off the coast of Imizu, he made a catch of the day that he had never seen before.

The strange fish had a unique face with a protruding head, rippling its dorsal fin and shaking its 1-meter-long silver body.

Suganuma, 24, caught the fish on the Shintokumaru fishing boat, which sails out of Imizu, in the early hours of May 15, when the firefly squid fishing season was coming to an end.

At first, he thought it was a lowsail ribbonfish, which is often caught in nets during this season. However, a younger colleague knowledgeable about fish species said it might be a deep-sea North Pacific crestfish, aka unicornfish.

Suganuma decided to give the fish to the Uozu Aquarium because of its rarity.
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