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Bye bye Basi: World's oldest captive panda dies
Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)
The Straits Giant Panda Research and Exchange Center in southeastern China, where she has lived for 33 years, bid a heartfelt farewell to the bear, with a memor...
Snow leopards no longer 'endangered,' conservationists rule
Sep 14, 2017 (UPI)
Now, the predatory cats are considered "vulnerable," a less severe classification. The snow leopard first joined the Red List in 1972, but the species' numbers ...
Report finds staggering decline in Canada wildlife
Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)
The World Wildlife Fund in its Living Planet Report pointed to 451 shrinking animal populations out of 903 monitored over a 45-year period that ended in 2014. T...
'Extinct' giant tortoise to be bred in captivity
Sep 13, 2017 (AFP)
The breeding program involving 32 tortoises -- 19 of which are descended from the Chelonoidis nigra species in question -- will allow for medium-term repopulati...
When not to eat your kids
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
The animal world has many examples of so-called filial cannibalism, which refers to animals that eat their own offspring. Others partake in non-kin cannibalism ...
Elephants hide by day, forage at night to evade poachers
Sep 13, 2017 (AFP)
Normally elephants forage for food and migrate in daylight, while resting under cover of darkness. But a sharp increase in illegal hunting driven by the global ...
Monarch butterflies disappearing from western US
Sep 08, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists at Washington State University found that the decline in western monarch butterfly populations was significantly more than previously believed and gr...
Study finds city life is tough on young birds
Sep 08, 2017 (UPI)
"It seems that the various stress factors in the city do not affect the survival of adult individuals in the same way as they affect that of young birds," Pablo...
Invasive plants change ecosystems from the bottom up
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
Now Meyerson, a professor of natural resources sciences, and Northeastern University Professor Jennifer Bowen have revealed that even when two different lineage...
Corruption fuelling ivory trade in central Africa: study
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
The study by wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic said weak governance, corruption and shifting trade dynamics are seriously undermining efforts to control...
Insects can see the world in much finer resolution than previously thought
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
In contrast, the human eye has a single lens, which slims and bulges as it focuses objects of interests on a retinal light-sensor (photoreceptor) array; the meg...
Tales of murder and suffering in Hong Kong ban debate
Sep 06, 2017 (AFP)
Hong Kong is a major hub for ivory sales and last year announced that it would introduce a total ban on the trade. But authorities later clarified they would on...
Scientists prolong life, slow aging in fruit flies
Sep 06, 2017 (UPI)
A team of biologists at UCLA have developed a way to repair damaged mitochondria in fruit fly cells, thus delaying the aging process. The mitochondria is the en...
Dogs help conservationists track, protect endangered jaguars, pumas in Argentina
Sep 06, 2017 (UPI)
The plan was made possible by a pack of scat-tracking research dogs, who've helped scientists map the distribution of jaguars, pumas and bush dogs in the region...
Tasmanian DNA to aid bandicoot reboot in Victoria
Sep 05, 2017 (UPI)
Genetic diversity is essential to isolated populations of endangered species. Eastern barred bandicoots are worse than isolated in Victoria, they're relegated t...
Scientists use CRISPR gene-editing technology to alter flower color
Sep 05, 2017 (UPI)
The Japanese morning glory is one of two plants already being studied as part of Japan's National BioResource Project, so researchers at the University of Tsuku...
In Nicaragua, a fight to save endangered tapirs
Sep 04, 2017 (AFP)
The largest land mammals in Central America, the brown, pig-like animals with sloping snouts came into the world in captivity, in an enclosure a short distance ...
Romania to kill bears, wolves after rise in attacks
Sep 04, 2017 (AFP)
The measures aim to "prevent important damages and protect public health and safety", the environment ministry said in a statement. A government-appointed commi...
Two-year Amazon study yields 381 new species
Aug 31, 2017 (UPI)
The species were identified over the course of a two-year survey by a team of researchers working with the World Wildlife Fund and Brazil's Mamiraua Institute f...
Scientists make breakthrough in study of mitochondria
Aug 30, 2017 (UPI)
How mitochondria and their distinct ingredients form has remained a mystery. In a new study, however, researchers at the University of Exeter managed to image t...
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