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Pack Line Headlines: New Zealand hens freed, shark conservation and Bird Day

New Zealand Bans Battery Cages – The New Zealand Herald reports over 80 million hens have been freed from battery cages in the country thanks to new animal-welfare legislation. Top Shark Stories of 2011 – Southern Fried Science has posted a list of the Top 10 Shark Conservation Stories of 2011. The highlights include the [...]

Hundreds of elephant tusks burned to protest illegal ivory trade

Born Free USA is reporting Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki recently set ablaze 335 elephant tusks. Lusaka Agreement Task Force and the Government of Kenya were making a point of protesting the illegal ivory trade is sending elephants closer to extinction. Born Free notes a few decades ago, 1.3 million elephants roamed Africa. But about 600,000 [...]