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• Giant tortoise mystery: how did seven protected reptiles end up dead in Devon woods?

  19-01-2024 12:30
  
  As discovery baffles community, police examine potential link to 2021 find in same forestIt was as unlikely a crime scene as one could imagine. The remains of seven giant tortoises scattered across a remote woodland in Devon, their helpless bodies abandoned in the understory.The grisly discovery earlier this month has left police, local people and herpetologists baffled as to who dumped the reptiles and why. Continue reading...
  
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• Devon tortoise deaths: police examine potential link to 2021 find in same forest

  19-01-2024 12:30
  Discovery of seven dead giant tortoises has left community baffled as to who dumped them and whyIt was as unlikely a crime scene as one could imagine. The remains of seven giant tortoises scattered across a remote woodland in Devon, their helpless bodies abandoned in the understory.The grisly discovery earlier this month has left police, local people and herpetologists baffled as to who dumped the reptiles and why. Continue reading...
  
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• How South Korea fell in love with dogs and banned their slaughter for meat

  19-01-2024 02:00
  
  National assembly votes to end trade in dog meat, thanks to its canine-loving leadersLike most young South Koreans, Annie Ko rarely ate dog meat, but her annual visits to a restaurant serving the dish did little to trouble her conscience. And she was only vaguely aware of the international criticism that led to last week’s vote to ban the breeding, slaughter and sale of dog meat in the country.It was when she volunteered as an interpreter for Humane Society International that her views on
  
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