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AWF Launches Anti-poaching Fund The African Wildlife Foundation has announced a $10 million fund to quickly target poachers. The Urgent Response Fund aims to reduce the killings of thousands of endangered elephants and rhinos every year. The AWF said
Study: Cheetah Population Dwindling 研究发现猎豹数量正在减少 In 1900, cheetahs numbered around 100,000. Today, there are just 10,000 in the wild. A new study says being fast is not enough to survive. Everybodys knows cheetahs are fast. So
美联社,新闻一分钟,Iraqi,parliament,standoff,1:In another dramatic last-minute standoff, Iraqi leaders put off a vote on a draft constitution late Monday, adjourn ing parliament at a midnight deadline in a bid for more time to win over the Sunni
IN THE NEWS - Gates Says NATO Could Face 'Irrelevance' in the Future This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American Defense Secretary Robert Gates has told NATO members that they need to do more -- and spend more -- to support the alliance. ROB
Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels, on the verge of total military defeat, have declared a cease-fire. But the military immediately rejected it, saying surrender to Sri Lankan forces is the only option. The development comes as the top U.N. humanitarian offic
Independent Pharmacy Thrives with Personal Service Morgan Pharmacy has an old fashioned feel, with this display of old prescription bottles and the original shelves from when the store opened 1912. Pharmacist Barry Deutschman bought the store 20 year
US Nuns Stunned, Angered by Vatican Reprimand After a night on the street, dozens of homeless men and women file into a shelter in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring. A walk down the hall takes them to the cafeteria, where they get a hot breakfas
Beachgoers carry a surf-ski past a polling station on Queenscliff Beach in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. Australians go to the polls Saturday to vote in the federal election. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) The polls are open and Australian vot
Indigestion Can Protect Africa's Lions African lions are increasingly hunting domestic cattle. And many of them are being killed as humans retaliate. Now, in Botswana, a pilot project is underway to save the lion by making cattle taste bad. The king
Cameroon, Chad Team Up to Protect Wildlife The pact was signed by both governments in early August. It stipulates that the Central African neighbors will jointly manage over 300,000 hectares of protected area. They will be patrolled by an increased n
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Think of the Mississippi Delta, and you might imagine cotton fields, sharecroppers, blues music. Well, it's been all that. But for more than a century, it's also been a magnet for immigrants. On her road trip to the Delta, NPR's Me
At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week, there are hundreds of new cars on display that achieve high fuel efficiency and reduce pollution. Also on hand are representatives of the private X Prize Foundation, which is sponsor
Once upon a time, the Mekong River from Laos to Vietnam was teaming with thousands of freshwater dolphins, before more than thirty years of warfare and over-fishing nearly killed them off. But a recent study by the World Wildlife Fund found just 71
The numbers nowadays are small, but their sacrifice remains enormous. Veterans of the bitter war in the Far East came to the Cenotaph to remember. Sixty-five years after Japan's surrender to the mighty of the atomic bomb. The nation, too, paid its re
President Barack Obama and Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (File) With four trips this year to the Asian Pacific having been called off by the Obama administration -- most recently because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico -- Australian ex
今天我们要学的词是dwindle. Dwindle is spelled d-w-i-n-d-l-e, dwindle. Dwindle是缩减,缩小的意思。Hewlett-Packard may eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers. 惠普公司可能会裁
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 November 2009 A worker displays gold bars at the National Indian Bullion Refinery (NIBR)'s gold and silver refinery in Mumbai, 06 Nov 2009 India has purchased 200 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund to d
1. Ten gunmen disguised as police guards and armed with machine guns and a rocket launcher attacked Pakistans busiest airport on Sunday during a siege that killed at least 18 people. The attack came as government-led peace talks with the local Taliba
Thailand,Malaysia and Indonesia have been holding??an emergency meeting to try??to resolved the migrant crisis in the region. Thousands of migrants who stranded at sea with dwindling food and water suppliers because the three countries dont want to l
World markets slumped Tuesday amid persistent worries of a deepening global recession. U.S. shares were lower in Tuesday's trading despite new government-led efforts to stem home foreclosures as well as discussion of ways to assist the troubled Ameri