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African leaders call on EU to shut ivory trade

Mar 16, 2018 (AFP)

Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Ali Bongo of Gabon and host Ian Khama of Botswana wrote a petition along with representatives of 29 other countries callin...

Mangrove rivulus jumps farther as it ages, researchers say

Mar 16, 2018 (UPI)

These fish, which can be found in the United States, are capable of "tail-flip jumping" many times their body length when out of water, allowing them find bette...

Global biodiversity 'crisis' to be assessed at major summit

Mar 16, 2018 (AFP)

The reason? Humanity's voracious consumption, and wanton destruction, of the very gifts of nature that keep us alive. Starting Saturday, a comprehensive, global...

Spotted marsupial returned to mainland Australia after half century

Mar 15, 2018 (AFP)

The eastern quoll -- a furry carnivore about the size of a domestic cat -- disappeared from the mainland in the 1960s but clung on in the island state of Tasman...

A compass in the dark

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

"Reverse-engineering the magnetoreceptor may lead to synthetic biology techniques for remotely controlling molecular processes with magnetic fields." To reach t...

Plants faring worse than monkeys in patchy Costa Rica forests

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

A study published in the journal Primates shows that while plants growing near the edges of cleared regions are negatively impacted by human activity, monkeys s...

Elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia

Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)

Wildlife officials said the gang caught near the town of Gerik in the northern Malaysian state of Perak was found with deer antlers and suspected tiger bones. A...

In Colombia, birders find their version of Eden

Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)

It's a mighty goal: Colombia boasts the greatest number of bird types on the planet -- 1,920, or 19 percent of those on the planet -- a veritable paradise for b...

Pretty polly or pests? Dutch in a flap over parakeets

Mar 12, 2018 (AFP)

Love 'em or hate 'em, thousands of rose-ringed parakeets, close relatives of parrots, have made their home in the Netherlands over the past five decades, and th...

Hi-tech conservationists fight Indonesia wildlife crime

Mar 11, 2018 (AFP)

Spread across more than 17,000 islands, the Southeast Asian nation's dense tropical rainforests boast some of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world, f...

Sumatran tiger kills Indonesian man

Mar 11, 2018 (AFP)

Yusri Effendi, 34, was found with fatal wounds to his neck by workmates and local villagers in Riau province on Sumatra island on Saturday evening, the local co...

Young southern white rhinos use four calls to communicate

Mar 08, 2018 (UPI)

As detailed in a new paper in the journal PLOS One, young southern white rhinos deploy four different vocalizations. Their choice of call depends on the behavio...

China plans panda park that will dwarf Yellowstone

Mar 08, 2018 (AFP)

At least 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) has been secured over the next five years for construction of the Giant Panda National Park in mountainous southwestern ...

Elephants kill 10 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: UN

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

Some 700,000 people from Myanmar's Rohingya community have fled over the border to Bangladesh since August, following an army crackdown that the UN has said amo...

India's endangered lion population increases to 600

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

The lion, which once roamed across southwest Asia but is now restricted to the 1,400 square kilometre (545 square mile) Gir sanctuary in Gujarat state, was list...

Shipments of protected African species to Asia soar: study

Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)

Wildlife imports of leopard tortoises, African spurred tortoises and ball pythons into Asia increased nearly tenfold in a decade, the report by monitoring netwo...

Hummingbirds make cricket sounds at frequencies outside avian hearing range

Mar 05, 2018 (UPI)

Researchers first heard the chirping will studying hummingbirds in the rainforests of eastern Brazil. "We heard prominent high-pitch sounds that sounded perhaps...

Endangered Sumatran tiger disemboweled, hung up in Indonesia

Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)

Human-animal conflicts are rampant in the vast Southeast Asian archipelago, especially in areas where the clearing of rainforest to make way for palm oil planta...

Study suggests dogs understand objects they smell

Mar 05, 2018 (UPI)

New research suggests dogs don't simply think about the reward they associate with a target smell, they produce a visualization, or mental image, of the target ...

Scientists discover strange new water bear species

Mar 01, 2018 (UPI)

Tardigrades are the eight-legged micro-animals that appear both adorable and freakish, and have earned a reputation as the toughest animals on planet Earth. Kaz...