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Norwegian tourist attacked by cheetah

A 22-year-old Norwegian woman is recovering from her injuries after she was attacked by a cheetah on Saturday during a visit to a wildlife park in Namibia.

Published: 7 February 2012 12:15 CET
Norwegian tourist attacked by cheetah
Photo: Jakub Krechowicz (File)

The tourist was helping her guide feed the cheetahs at the Harnas game farm when one of the animals lashed out, Namibian news agency Nampa reports.

Her right leg was covered in blood and her jeans shorts were torn in the attack, but her injuries were not serious, Nampa said.

The woman was part of a group of eight tourists visiting the wildlife farm.

According to tour guide Joshua Shilongo, the young woman was attacked after she turned her back on a hungry cheetah.

"Never turn your back on a cheetah, otherwise you will be dead," Shilongo told Nampa’s reporter, who witnessed the incident.

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Paris authorities to shut down bird market over cruelty concerns

The Paris city council on Wednesday agreed to shut down a live bird market operating in the historic centre close to Notre Dame cathedral, responding to rights activists who called it a cruel and archaic operation.

Published: 4 February 2021 11:37 CET
Paris authorities to shut down bird market over cruelty concerns
Photo: AFP

The bird market on Louis Lepine square in the centre of the French capital has long been a fixture in Paris, operating close to the famous flower market.

But Christophe Najdovski, Paris' deputy mayor in charge of animal welfare, said that the market was a centre for bird trafficking in France while conditions for the birds were not acceptable.

“This is why we are committed to changing the regulations to ban the sale of birds and other animals,” he said.

The closure had been urged by activists from the Paris Animals Zoopolis collective who had called the practice of showing the caged birds “cruel and archaic”.

France and Paris have in the last months adopted a series of measures aiming to show they are at the forefront of efforts to protect animal welfare.

The government said in September it planned to “gradually” ban mink farms as well the use of wild animals in travelling circuses and dolphins and orcas in theme parks.

Parc Asterix, which normally has some two million visitors a year, announced last month it would close its dolphin and sea lion aquarium.

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