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Man in China caught smuggling 100 live snakes in his trousers
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
The unnamed traveller was stopped by customs officers as he sought to slip out of semi-autonomous Hong Kong and into the border city of Shenzhen, China Customs ...
Spanish tourist killed by elephants in South Africa
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
The 43-year-old man was attacked on Sunday at the Pilanesberg National Park, a tourist magnet about 200 kilometres (120 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, accord...
Rare Florida cactus becomes first US species lost to sea rise
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) was restricted to a single small population in the Florida Keys, an archipelago off the southern tip of th...
Animal crossing: Highway bridge aims to save California's cougars
Jul 08, 2024 (AFP)
The animal, also known as a puma or a cougar, is the region's apex predator, and spotting them is something of a hobby for locals. A 2013 photograph of the much...
New Zealand cat-killing contest vows to keep hunting 'crazy' felines
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
Feral cats prey on endangered birds, bats and lizards, according to New Zealand's department of conservation, and they are blamed for driving some species into ...
Chad rangers battle to protect park from poachers, local farmers
Jul 03, 2024 (AFP)
Established to protect the Sahel country's biodiversity from the threat of poaching and effects of agriculture, the park faces increasing criticism from local f...
First assessment finds Borneo elephant is endangered
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
The finding by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), known for its "Red List" of endangered wildlife, is the first time the elephant has be...
In Colombia, a long, perilous romance to save the harpy eagle
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
In an immense dome in Colombia, biologists have recreated a tropical rainforest where they have slowly introduced the monogamous birds, hoping they will hit it ...
'Nature's mirror': Climate change batters Albania's butterflies
Jun 20, 2024 (AFP)
Increasingly absent from the picturesque district of Zvernec, the Alexanor is one of 58 of the Balkan country's 207 butterfly species that researchers say are a...
Javan rhino clings to survival after Indonesia poaching wave
Jun 19, 2024 (AFP)
Since last year, authorities have arrested six alleged poachers. But eight remain on the run, including one who managed to flee his home hours before police arr...
Austria vows legal action over EU nature law approval
Jun 17, 2024 (AFP)
EU environment ministers on Monday approved a milestone bill aimed at restoring degraded ecosystems in the 27-nation bloc. The support of Austria's Climate Mini...
Foreign-born pandas join China's efforts to boost wild population
Jun 16, 2024 (AFP)
The fluffy envoys are loaned to overseas zoos as part of Beijing's "panda diplomacy", with the offspring returned to China within a few years of their birth to ...
China to replace Australia's popular giant pandas
Jun 16, 2024 (AFP)
Adelaide Zoo has been home to Wang Wang and Fu Ni since 2009 when they were loaned by China as part of a global preservation scheme that also serves as a tool o...
Colombia to deploy 12,000 to secure Cali biodiversity meet
Jun 12, 2024 (AFP)
A total of 1,600 soldiers and 4,000 police will be sent to the city to join some 6,000 already deployed to fight guerrillas that have carried out a recent spate...
Shadowy exotic pet trade thrives in Pacific island nation
Jun 12, 2024 (AFP)
Conservationist testimony, official documents and UN data show native Solomon Islands lizards being shipped to the United States, wild birds plucked from verdan...
Rare elephant twins born in dramatic birth in Thailand
Jun 11, 2024 (AFP)
The 36-year-old Asian elephant named Jamjuree gave birth to an 80-kilogramme (176-pound) male at the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal north of Bangkok ...
Coevolution Drives Biodiversity on Earth
May 31, 2024 (SPX)
Coevolution occurs when closely interacting species drive evolutionary changes in each other and can lead to speciation, but until now evidence was scarce. A te...
In Darwin's footsteps: scientists recreate historic 1830s expedition
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
But what they found on their arrival last month differed vastly from what Darwin saw while visiting the archipelago in 1835, in a trip key to developing his wor...
Violence spikes in Cali, Colombia, ahead of UN biodiversity meet
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
A recent spate of bombings and gun attacks near the city that was once the headquarters of the infamous Cali Cartel has local authorities on edge five months be...
Panda diplomacy is back: China sending two bears to Washington
May 29, 2024 (AFP)
Bao Li and Qing Bao will arrive in the United States before the end of the year under a decade-long breeding and research agreement, the zoo said in a statement...
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