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Hard Numbers: Meet Bard, grim new climate report, Colombia’s Toro ban, Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ law, IMF approves Sri Lankan relief
1.5: A new UN report says the world has less than a decade to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (the 2015 Paris Agreement’s target). Industrialized countries must halve greenhouse gasses by 2030 and halt carbon dioxide emissions by the 2050s to avoid cataclysmic flooding, droughts, heat waves, and species extinction.
8: Bullfighting remains legal in eight countries worldwide, but that may soon change. The majority of Colombians want to end the practice, which has been a tradition since colonial times. Colombia’s Senate recently voted to ban bullfighting, but the legislation now faces a tough challenge in the lower house, where an earlier proposed ban was shot down last year.
10: Uganda’s parliament passed a harsh new anti-LGBTQ bill on Tuesday that could lead to 10-year prison sentences for those who engage in “same-sex activity” or identify as LGBTQ. If President Yoweri Museveni signs the bill – he has suggested he supports it – Uganda will become the first African nation to criminalize simply identifying as LGBTQ.
2.9 billion: Sri Lanka has secured a $2.9 billion rescue package from the IMF to aid in its economic recovery. After defaulting on its sovereign debt last year, the island nation faced its worst economic disaster since independence. The package will likely boost international investment, but strict austerity measures will hurt Sri Lankan households already struggling with sky-high inflation.
Chinese woman shares home with 1,300 dogs
CHONGQING • Twenty years ago, Ms Wen Junhong saved an abandoned dog from the streets of Chongqing in south-western China. She now shares her home with more than 1,300 dogs, and they keep on coming.
Myanmar monk offers temple sanctuary for threatened snakes
A 69-year-old monk has created a refuge for snakes at the Seikta Thukha TetOo monastery in Yangon.
Cambodia ready to welcome 'world's loneliest elephant'
"Cambodia is ready to welcome Kaavan," deputy environment minister Neth Pheaktra told AFP.
Saving Bandung's zoo from a grim fate
On a recent weekday at the Bandung Zoological Garden, a lone male muntjac - or barking deer - was snug inside a feed trough, a sheet of corrugated steel providing shade from the midday sun.
Saving Bandung's zoo from a grim fate
On a recent weekday at the Bandung Zoological Garden, a lone male muntjac - or barking deer - was snug inside a feed trough, a sheet of corrugated steel providing shade from the midday sun.
164 dogs found crammed into tiny house in Japan
TOKYO • Japanese health officials have found 164 emaciated dogs crammed into a tiny house in one of the country's worst cases of animal hoarding, an animal rights activist said yesterday.
Cambodia's tourist hotspot Siem Reap bans dog meat trade
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - The Cambodian tourist town of Siem Reap has banned the dog meat trade, a victory for animal rights campaigners who describe the area as the "lynchpin" of an industry that slaughters millions of creatures each year.