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Walking safari guide killed by lion in Zimbabwe park (AP)

By FARAI MUTSAKA 25-08-2015 - HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A lion charged and killed a safari guide who was leading a group of tourists in the same national park in Zimbabwe that was the home of Cecil the lion who was controversially killed by an American bow hunter in July.

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Troops mobilized to help fight western wildfires (Reuters)

By Laura Zuckerman - Aug 17, 2015 SALMON, Idaho - The U.S. Army began deploying 200 soldiers on Monday to reinforce civilian firefighters stretched thin by scores of large wildfires roaring across several Western states, marking the first such mobilization of active-duty military personnel in nine years.

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Forest Service gets to the heart of wildland firefighters (fs.fed.us)

Posted by Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service, on October 6, 2014 - It takes a certain type of person to fight wildfires. It’s not what they look like. Or sound like. It’s not their heritage or their culture. It’s their heart.

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Zimbabwe hunting (CNN)

Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP 05-08-2015 - Sportsmen stalked: Theo Bronkhorst -- one of the two Zimbabweans who allegedly were paid $50,000 to help Walter Palmer hunt and kill Cecil the lion -- was in court today on poaching charges.

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California wildfires (CNN)

05-08-2015. - Flames fueled: The Rocky Fire -- the largest of the nearly two dozen fires torching California -- destroyed 24 homes and 26 outbuildings as it continued to burn yesterday for a sixth day.

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American doctor defends lion hunt, says he followed rules (AP)

Aug. 4, 2015 – PITTSBURGH - An American doctor accused of killing a lion in an illegal hunt in Zimbabwe said Tuesday that he had complied with all rules and regulations, filled out all the necessary paperwork and obtained the correct permits.

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Dear Members of the CIC,

Many of you will have heard of the incident of the killing of Cecil the lion near Hwange National Pk in Zimbabwe recently. We are happy to share with you a blog post on the IIED website, written by Rosie Cooney, Chair of the Sustainable Use and Livelihood Specialist Group of IUCN (SULi) with input from a number of experts within SULi.

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Thousands evacuated as largest of California wildfires spreads (CNN)

August 2, 2015 - By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Michael Martinez, Thousands of California acres are ablaze as firefighters battle at least 21 wildfires throughout the state, but while many of those fires are small or mostly contained, the wind and heat that are spreading the Rocky Fire in Northern California -- and the area's steep terrain -- are causing the most concern.

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Firefighter killed, hundreds flee as California blazes burn (AP)

By JEFF CHIU and HAVEN DALEY Aug. 1, 2015 - LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Blazes raging in forests and woodlands across California have taken the life of a firefighter and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes as an army of firefighters continue to battle them from the air and the ground.

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Zimbabwe calls for extradition of Cecil the lion's killer (Reuters)

HARARE | By MacDonald Dzirutwe 31-07-2015 - The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a "foreign poacher" who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday.

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