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A rescue operation has discovered the body of one of the two Japanese climbers who went missing on Spantik Peak, also known as Golden Peak, in northern Pakistan. “The body has been moved to a safer location, but the search for the second climber continues,” Karar Haidri, a spokesperson for Alpine Club Pakistan told dpa. The Japanese climbers went missing while attempting to summit the 7,027-metre mountain. Climbing in Alpine style without porters they reached camp 2, at an altitude of 5,300 metres on Monday. However, another seven-member Japanese expedition team reached the camp the next day a...
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Nepalese soldiers have retrieved four bodies and a skeleton from Mount Everest and the neighbouring peaks of Lhotse and Nuptse during a cleaning operation. The recruits collected 11 tons of rubbish since April, according to the army. At 8,849 metres, Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world and has also gained the sad notoriety of being the world's highest rubbish dump. Tons of broken tents and clothing, food packaging, cookers, empty water bottles, beer cans and oxygen bottles lie there, left behind by thousands of adventurers. There is also a lot of human waste - and dozens of corp...
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Wildlife trafficking has not substantially reduced over the past two decades, despite positive signs in reducing trafficking of iconic species like elephant and rhino, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported in Vienna on Monday. "The global scope and scale of wildlife crime remain substantial with seizures during 2015–2021 indicating an illegal trade in 162 countries and territories affecting around 4,000 plant and animal species," the office's third edition of the World Wildlife Crime Report says. During the six-year period, around 13 million individual animals and plants had been s...
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Around 3.7 million hectares (37,000 square kilometres) of tropical rainforest were destroyed worldwide last year, according to a global study. This is around 400,000 hectares or about 10% less than in 2022, the World Resources Institute (WRI) announced in Washington on Thursday. The loss is partly due to fires, but mainly to other developments, particularly deforestation. The figure is almost identical to the forest loss in 2019 and 2021. Over the past two decades, the world has lost 3 million to 4 million hectares of tropical forest every year, according to the WRI. Mikaela Weisse, from the e...
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