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Polar bear, (Ursus maritimus), Blizzard, eats a fish while swimming in his new aquarium at the Hamburg zoo, July 5, 2012.
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Polar bear, (Ursus maritimus), Blizzard, eats a fish while swimming in his new aquarium at the Hamburg zoo, July 5, 2012.
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WildAid, US Actress Maggie Q swims with an endangered whale shark off Cancun, Mexico. As an ambassador for international conservation group WildAid, Maggie Q is in Cancun this week to publicize the plight of sharks threatened by demand for shark fin soup in the same week that China announced a ban on shark fin from all official banquets.
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Honey, a 2-year-old American Guinea hog at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill., cools off in a pool of water as temperatures hovered near the 100 mark.
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A stream tree frog, discovered four years ago in the rainforests of Ecuador, species named 'Hyloscirtus princecharlesi' in honour of the Prince's support to conservation and environmental campaigns, is displayed during a WWF-UK Green Ambassadors Summit attended Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and school children at Highgrove House on July 5, 2012 in Doughton near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England. In his role as President of WWF-UK (World Wide Fund for Nature,) Prince Charles, Prince of Wales showed his support for the WWF-UK and BT Green Ambassadors scheme, which aims to encourage a new generation of sustainability champions. School children took part in a Green Ambassadors Summit; participating in a series of workshops with an environmental theme, and toured the Highgrove gardens to see the sustainability features of the estate.
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Elizabeth Davis from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, left, and Dennis Christen of the Georgia Aquarium feed a bottle to a baby beluga calf being rehabilitated at the center. The whale was approximately two days old when it was found in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and separated from its mother. Staff from the Alaska SeaLife Center is receiving help with the whale's care from the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Shedd Aquarium in Chicago and SeaWord in San Diego.
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This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Chengdu panda base, founded in 1987 when 6 giant pandas were rescued from the wild. Through a dedicated conservation plan, Chengdu now has the largest captive breeding panda population in the world, and aims to increase it from 108 to 150 pandas over the next 10 years.
This week's PAW activity will be taking place in London until 6th July, and sees the panda posse hosting a "panda party" in Covent Garden, taking over the London Underground and visiting the city's most famous landmarks. The 108 costumed pandas represent the 108 pandas currently at the Chengdu panda base, which plays a leading role in fostering continued growth of the giant panda population, and rescue and rehabilitation to return them back to their natural habitat.
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People dressed as pandas stand in London's Trafalgar Square to launch Panda Awareness Week, July 4, 2012.
VIDEO: Watch this hilarious video of pandas at the Chengdu Panda base learning how to play on a slide. Warning, extreme cute factor! And we're sure you will watch this more than once!
Police in Snowmass Colorado have issued a bear alert after three cubs were found inside a vehicle.
The town's transportation department posted this alert on their FACEBOOK page , "Please lock your cars and try to clean all traces of food out of them. On second thought, sell your car and ride the Village Shuttle. Beats having to clean it. Seriously! Lock your cars. These cute little guys lives depend on you to act responsibly in bear country."
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Two of the three cubs peer outside of the car.
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All three cubs sit in the back of the car.
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Siberian tiger cub Plyusha and Shar Pei puppy Fighter play in the house of Yekaterina Khodakova, whose Shar Pei dog Cleopatra is breastfeeding Plyusha and her sibling Clyopa in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
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Yekaterina Khodakova holding her 18-month-old son Gleb watches two Siberian tiger cubs Plyusha and Clyopa and Shar Pei puppy Flaxy playing in her house.
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Siberian tiger cub Plyusha and Shar Pei puppy Fighter play in the house.
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Siberian tiger cub Clyopa plays with 18-month-old Gleb, son of Yekaterina Khodakova.
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Shar Pei dog Cleopatra feeds Siberian tiger cub Clyopa.
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A helicopter of the Bundespolizei, the German federal police force, lifts a police officer and his dog during a demonstration of capabilities on June 27, 2012 at Ahrensfelde near Berlin, Germany.
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'Mr Munro' a Fiordland penguin paints his prints on a canvas at Taronga Zoo on June 27, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. Taronga and Western Plains Zoo today pledged a a new elephant conservation project in Thailand and animals at Taronga made their pledge by dipping their feet and hands in paint and smudging them on canvas.
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'Mr Munro' a Fiordland penguin fails on his first try to leave his prints on canvas at Taronga Zoo on June 27, 2012 in Sydney, Australia.
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'Mr Munro' a Fiordland penguin gets a treat after successfully leaving his paint prints on a canvas at Taronga Zoo on June 27, 2012 in Sydney, Australia.
