Nature
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Wild boar cull planned as population swells
Plans are afoot for a mass cull of the Czech Republic’s wild boar population. Mild winters are causing the animals to breed all year round, sparking a rise in numbers –…
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Conservationist project provides pears for heirs
Conservationists in the National Park Bohemian Switzerland in north of the country are busy these days collecting wild pears. While they might not be exactly tasty for…
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Health reports says that air pollution leads to more than 5,000 deaths in Czech Republic annually
A new study conducted by the National Health Institute has found that there are more than 5,000 deaths annually related to breathing polluted air. More than half of…
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Artists collect impressions of scarred North Bohemia landscape
Artists from the Czech Republic, Iceland and Norway have got together in the industrial landscape in North Bohemia for a project called Frontiers of Solitude, examining…
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Plans to exploit Czech uranium mine slag heap sparks furore
Slag heaps of broken rocks and stone are the clearest legacy of the uranium mining boom in the Czech Republic. But one company’s plans to get rid of some of the unsightly…
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Traffic road sign aimed at saving endangered moose
Drivers on Czech roads may soon come across a new, perhaps somewhat surprising, traffic sign: a moose crossing. The non-profit organisation Česká Krajina or Czech…
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Animal rights activists call for ban on fur farming in Czech Republic
Animal rights activists from OBRAZ are holding a week-long protest in front of the Agriculture Ministry where they have put up a large cage, "inhabited" day and…
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Heat wave continues unabated
Temperatures around the Czech Republic reached record highs at the weekend with the highest, 39.8 degrees, Celsius registered at two municipalities outside the Czech…
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Czech spiders specialist raises alarm over species extinction
According to a recent study, some three percent of the country's spider species have died out and about 50 percent are threatened with extinction. What are the reasons…
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Dvůr Králové Zoo opens first lion safari in Central and Eastern Europe
The Dvůr Králové Zoo which is known for its valiant efforts to try to save the Northern White Rhino, has a new attraction. This month it opened a lion safari – the only…
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Rare Northern white rhino dies at Czech zoo, leaving just four in the world
Thirty-two-year-old Nabire, one of the last Northern white rhinos on Earth, died at Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic on Monday night from complications from a…
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Czech government seeks ways of getting to grips with drought conditions
The Czech Republic is experiencing its worst drought in the last 12 years with some parts of the country having hardly seen any major rainfall for a month. Ministries are…
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