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rare blue iguanas found butchered

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:50:49 GMT

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The reptiles were found Sunday at Queen Elizabeth II Botanical Park, a refuge for the iguanas and other wildlife on Grand Cayman Island (see map).

Most of the remaining blue iguanas live in Queen Elizabeth Park, where a breeding program was begun in 2001. Outside the park, as few as ten of the animals are thought to survive, according to IUCN.

The six dead iguanas were found with their bodies crushed, and some had also been lacerated and partially dismembered.

The crime is a devastating blow to the species, which is found only on the small Caribbean island and is listed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

"This is a despicable act that was carried out by cowardly and cruel individuals," Chief Inspector Richard Barrow told the Cayman News Service.

No motives or suspects were known, he added, but officials are offering a thousand-Cayman-dollar reward for information leading to an arrest.

tornado month is here!

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:28:59 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Severe weather warnings were issued in several states in the central US, after a massive tornado devastated a town in southern Kansas.

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Tue, 06 May 2008 16:58:20 GMT

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pirates attack tugboat

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:43:16 GMT

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Colin Darch was piloting his slow-moving tugboat out of the Red Sea close to Somalia when heavily armed pirates sped up next to him screaming and firing weapons.

He spun his boat, the giant tug Svitzer Korsakov, with its powerful thrusters to create a wall of water in an attempt to swamp the pirates' speedboat. One pirate was knocked overboard from the rushing water and the boat's boarding ladder was swept into the sea.

He knew that with boats on each flank and almost 20 pirates armed with AK-47s, he and his five crew members would not escape. The pirates rushed aboard, firing their weapons into the air and ordering the crew to lie down.

"I had a good feeling that we would get rid of them, but my heart sank when I saw the second boat speeding toward us," Darch told CNN recently.

The pirates took them up and down the eastern coast of Somalia, anchoring at various spots along the way. They sometimes brought live goats aboard and slaughtered them for food.