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'Half a million ants march in Germany' for protection of Amazon rainforest
2015-08-18 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Half a million ants were enlisted at a German zoo Tuesday by ecologists from the conservation group WWF to call for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, ahead of a trip by Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to Brazil. At what the group described as a demonstration, leafcutter ants -- a species indigenous to the world's biggest forest -- were seen carrying leaves bearing slogans cut out by WWF activists such as "Save the Amazon" and "Help, Merkel". The action organised by the zoo in Cologne...
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