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Crocodiles cannot outnumber people in area where girl was killed, leader says

Crocodile numbers in Australia’s Northern Territory must be either maintained or reduced and cannot be allowed to outstrip the human population, the territory’s leader said, after a 12-year-old girl was killed while swimming. The crocodile population has exploded across Australia’s tropical north since it became a protected species under Australian law in the 1970s, growing […]

Shrine honours cats on Japanese island where felines outnumber humans

On a small island off Japan’s north-eastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja”, or Cat Shrine, mythologises cats as guardian angels of Tashirojima, where cats outnumber humans. According to legend, the island used to be famous for sericulture (silk production) and farmers would keep cats because […]