Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire joined city zoos in announcing it would temporarily shut its doors to the public to protect its rare animals.
Sharjah's Natural History Museum has had over 200, 000 visitors since it opened two years ago, but setting up slick audio-visual displays is a far cry from breeding rare animals in captivity.
The House of Representatives is considering a measure that would significantly weaken the act and would, among other things, allow destruction of forests and other places where rare animals and plants live.
These include the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Center, which cares for and breeds cheetahs and other rare and endangered animals.
It was about these rare and endangered animals that are tied into the bigger picture of the health of our planet.
If you don't have time to spend in one of the vast national parks, Australia's zoos and wildlife parks have come a long way from the miserable cement enclosures of yore, and these created environments provide unparalleled opportunities to observe Australia's rare and cryptic animals.
The actual animals are rare, so maybe embracing that will lead Angola to something rarer: the Round of 16.
Elephants, giraffes and even lions wander around the eastern slopes of the mountain, and it is essential to be accompanied by an armed guide, although encounters with these animals are rare.
This study uses one of the rare opportunities to study wild animals in a semi-wild setting.
Dr Charles Musyoki, a senior wildlife official, told the BBC that albino animals wre very rare and in the past only an albino zebra had been spotted in a Kenyan park.
The centre opened in 1993 as a place to rescue and care for rare birds of prey and exotic animals.
Anthrax is a rare bacterial infection most commonly found in hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and goats.
Investigations over the life-time of the animals or even including following generations are very rare.
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Fortunately, most animals are not infected with rabies, so transmission to humans is rare, affecting just a handful of people every year.
Richard Thomas of Traffic International, an organisation trying to stop the illegal trade in exotic animals, said both species of tortoise involved in this case were incredibly rare.
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