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Fudo easily snares Resort Trust Ladies title

OKAZAKI, Japan - Yuri Fudo smiles with her cup in hands after winning the Resort Trust Ladies with a total of 11-under 205 at the Tradition Golf Club in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture on June 8. It was her third title in the current season and 18th overall tour victory.

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Onishi snares bronze at swimming worlds

FUKUOKA, Japan - Japan's Junko Onishi smiles with the bronze medal in her hand at the world swimming championships in Fukuoka on July 28. Sydney Olympian Onishi came through with a fourth bronze medal for host Japan after swimming a personal-best time of 58.88 seconds in the women's 100-meter breaststroke final.

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Sammiya wins women's 1,000m at speed skating World Cup meet

NAGANO, Japan - Eriko Sammiya (C) emerges as a double medalist Dec. 16 and snares her second World Cup gold medal in six days in the 1,000 meters while also taking silver in the 500. Sammiya edged reigning world champion Monique Garbrecht-Endfeldt (L) of Germany. Japanese compatriot Aki Tonoike finished third.

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Hanevold snares gold medal in Olympic 20 km biathlon

Norway's Halvard Hanevold celebrates his gold medal run in the men's 20-kilometer biathlon at the Nagano Olympics on Feb. 11. Hanevold pipped Italian veteran Pier Alberto Carrara to the post with a strong finishing burst.

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Lazutina snares 2nd cross country skiing

Veteran Larissa Lazutina shares Russia's second gold medal of the Nagano Winter Olympics on Feb. 10, slicing through a veil of snow in Hakuba to win the women's 5-kilometer classical cross country skiing event. Lazutina, the silver medalist in the 15-km classical event on Feb. 8, kicked strongly down the final stretch of the Snow Harp course to take the gold medal with a time of 17 minutes, 37.9 seconds.

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CAMBODIA-MONDULKIRI-ZERO-SNARING CAMPAIGN

(220730) -- MONDULKIRI, July 30, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Neth Pheaktra (1st R), secretary of state and spokesman for Cambodia's Ministry of Environment, visits a wildlife exhibition during the Zero-Snaring Campaign event in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia on July 29, 2022. Officials and conservationists said here on Friday that snares have been posing a great menace to wildlife survival in Cambodia, urging greater participation from local people to eradicate snaring and poaching in protected areas. (Cambodia's Ministry of Environment/Handout via Xinhua)

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Cambodia launches "zero-snaring" campaign to protect animals

STORY: Cambodia launches "zero-snaring" campaign to protect animals DATELINE: March 4, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:36 LOCATION: Phnom Penh CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference on the "zero-snaring" campaign 2. various of Neth Pheaktra speaking at the press conference 3. various of photos showing snares and trapped wild animals 4. various of snared wild pig STORYLINE: Cambodia's Ministry of Environment and partner groups on Thursday launched a "zero-snaring" campaign in protected areas to protect animals from being trapped and killed, officials said. The ministry's secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra said the six-month campaign will be conducted in protected areas in provinces situated in the eastern side of the Mekong River, including Kratie, Stung Treng, Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom provinces. The partner organizations in the campaign included the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Birdlife International, and Conservat

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Fudo easily snares Resort Trust Ladies title

OKAZAKI, Japan - Yuri Fudo smiles with her cup in hands after winning the Resort Trust Ladies with a total of 11-under 205 at the Tradition Golf Club in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture on June 8. It was her third title in the current season and 18th overall tour victory. (Kyodo)

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Artificially incubated cormorant debuts as fish hunter in Kyoto

Utty (foreground), Japan's first cormorant born through artificial incubation, swims in the Uji River in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on its first day as a traditional "ukai" fish hunter on Sept. 5, 2015. Holding the snares tied to the base of the birds' throat is cormorant fishing master Mariko Sawaki, who has been taking care of Utty since it was born in June 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Onishi snares bronze at swimming worlds

FUKUOKA, Japan - Japan's Junko Onishi smiles with the bronze medal in her hand at the world swimming championships in Fukuoka on July 28. Sydney Olympian Onishi came through with a fourth bronze medal for host Japan after swimming a personal-best time of 58.88 seconds in the women's 100-meter breaststroke final.

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Sammiya wins women's 1,000m at speed skating World Cup meet

NAGANO, Japan - Eriko Sammiya (C) emerges as a double medalist Dec. 16 and snares her second World Cup gold medal in six days in the 1,000 meters while also taking silver in the 500. Sammiya edged reigning world champion Monique Garbrecht-Endfeldt (L) of Germany. Japanese compatriot Aki Tonoike finished third.