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Como Zoo’s plastic Mold-A-Rama animals are about to go extinct

St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of nostalgia-tinged sadness. It wasn’t the death of a beloved animal or the closing of a ...
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Belly of the beast: Zookeepers reach into crocodiles’ stomachs to find missing bottle

MIAMI - Veterinarians at a Florida zoo reached deep into the belly of the beast this week to try and recover a plastic bottle likely swallowed by one of their Cuban crocodiles. Zoo Miami officials ...
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Houston Zoo becomes 1st animal park in the country to get rid of single-use plastic packaging in gift shop

Forty-five people were arrested and nearly $74,000 was seized after deputies found an alleged dog fighting ring in Newton County. 45 people arrested, $74,000 seized in alleged dog fighting ring in ...
The New York Times

When the Ocean Gives You Plastic, Make Animals

The Washed Ashore nonprofit collects garbage on the Oregon coast and creates sculptures of animals whose health is endangered by the trash they are made of. Angela Haseltine Pozzi, founder of the art ...