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The Guardian
5 days ago
- General
- The Guardian
Week in wildlife: a rescued monkey, squabbling jays and an amputee camel
Yong, a six-year-old pigtailed macaque rescued from a life harvesting coconuts, gets a vasectomy at the Wildlife Friends Foundation hospital in Phetchaburi, Thailand. The organisation is working with authorities, the coconut industry and exporters to encourage farmers to stop taking monkeys illegally from the wild and using them as labour, and switch to shorter trees that are easier to harvest. They are giving Yong a vasectomy so he can join a mixed troop of rescued monkeys without risk of breeding Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images Biologist Jhomar Navalo holds a two-toed sloth at a wildlife clinic in Panama City, Panama. Malnourished, disoriented, and behaviourally altered, dozens of wild animals rescued from illegal trafficking are treated by the clinic Photograph: Bienvenido Velasco/EPA A couple of jays squabble in riverside woodlands near Aberystwyth, Wales, UK Photograph: Philip Jones/Alamy Live News Cammie, an amputee camel, walks with her prosthetic leg for the first time at the CDRS Benji animal welfare project shelter house in Karachi, Pakistan Photograph: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images A humpback whale leaps out of the sea in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Photograph: Andre Coelho/EPA An artificial pond in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, which was initially created to store wastewater but has become a new habitat for flamingos and various other migratory bird species Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images One of of five owlets rescued after missing their nests during early flying attempts. They are being rehabilitated in Düzce, Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Bumblebees on a sunflower in a field in Frankfurt, Germany Photograph: Michael Probst/AP A stork family nest next to the crescent moon on the dome of a mosque in a rural neighbourhood in Erzurum, Turkey. For about four years, two storks have nested on the mosque dome. Each spring, they return to lay eggs and stay until autumn, raising and teaching their young to fly Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Sea lions on the rocky shoreline of La Jolla, near San Diego, California, US Photograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Shutterstock A western barn owl takes to the skies above the rolling landscape of Vysočina in the Czech Republic Photograph: Zuma Press/Alamy Live News A fox flees a forest fire in Bilecik, Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Egrets rest on treetops in Huaian, China Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Bats fly out from a cave in Phnom Sampov, Cambodia Photograph: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP/Getty Images A female pheasant takes flight during the 153rd Open Golf Championship at the Royal Portrush golf club, Northern Ireland, UK Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian A horned sea star in a river on Efate Island, Vanuatu, south Pacific Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP Swans make their way along the Landwehr canal in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, Germany Photograph: David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images Sea turtle hatchlings crawl toward the sea after emerging from their nests on the beach in Mersin, Turkey Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Deer cross a street in a forest near Frankfurt, Germany Photograph: Michael Probst/AP A sea turtle nibbles on what remains of the once vibrant reef at Havannah harbour, off the coast of Efate Island, Vanuatu Photograph: Annika Hammerschlag/AP Butterflies gather around flowers along the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas, US Photograph: Eric Gay/AP A hornbill holds a scorpion in its beak in the Nxai Pan national park, Kalahari desert, Botswana. The hornbill was struggling to get the scorpion into its mouth, but swallowed it eventually Photograph: Annette Marino/Solent News & Photo Agency
Belfast Telegraph
18-07-2025
- Business
- Belfast Telegraph
Translink confirms planned strike action during Open tournament ‘withdrawn' following last-minute deal
Members of the union group, Transport Salaried Staff Association (TSSA) working at Translink initially planned strike action for July 18 and 19, the second and third days of the Open competition in Portrush and the days likely to see the peak number of visitors flocking to the north coast. Around 280,000 spectators are expected over the next few days, with many using trains and buses to get there. The scheduled walk out was due to take place on midnight Friday. It would have included clerical staff, management, as well as professional and technical grades in the organisation. However, after extensive stalks over the past two days with the Labour Relations Agency (LRA), union officials and Translink, a last minute deal was struck. It was confirmed that union members would accept an agreed upon pay rise, halting the walk out. 'All proposed industrial action for today/tomorrow, 18–19 July has been withdrawn,' a Translink spokesperson said. 'All services are operating as scheduled including the special coach, bus, rail, and Park and Ride services for the 153rd Open Golf Championship in Portrush. The Open: International visitors share views on Portrush 'Full timetable details are available via the Journey Planner app and website Stating that 'significant progress' had been made, TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust said: 'We feel that sufficient progress has been made with Translink to suspend the planned strikes. 'This is not an end to the matter because it will now be up to our clerical and MPT members to decide if the offers made are good enough. 'From the start we have only asked for fairness and parity with other workers at Translink, and we could have reached this point some time ago had the company been in listening mode. 'Our members play a vital role - keeping public transport running safely every day of the year, with all the responsibility that entails – they should be paid accordingly.'
Irish Independent
09-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Loyalist band snubs €23k offer to postpone parade that clashes with Open at Portrush
The R&A considers changing the tee times amid congestion fears Liam Tunney and Adam McKendry A loyalist band whose annual parade clashes with the 153rd Open Golf Championship in Portrush was offered, and rejected, £20,000 (€23,000) to postpone its event. More than 60 bands and 2,000 people are expected to march through the town as part of a Portrush Sons of Ulster parade on Saturday July 19, which would coincide with the day's golfing action coming to a close.
