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AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2008
News briefs

Briefly in news this hour:





++A Melbourne man has been charged with trying to smuggle four valuable live snakes
from Africa into Australia.





Adelaide households have cut water use by almost 30 per cent in response to measures
imposed because of the drought.

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++ And a self proclaimed conservationist in Tanzania who insists it's all a tribute
.. has started up a private zoo and named it after STEVE IRWIN.

So far he's boasting a leopard .. a hyena .. a zebra .. a python .. a couple of chimps
.. a pair of baboons and a few birds.



AAP RTV gr/ce/sw/bart

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