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From edge of extinction to Australia's croc 'paradise'
Feb 29, 2024 (AFP)
That's the promise of Grahame Webb, whose conservation efforts are credited with helping wrestle Australia's saltwater predators back from the verge of extincti...
Contested EU biodiversity law hangs by a thread
Feb 26, 2024 (AFP)
The rules were a central part of the European Union's ambitious environmental goals under the Green Deal, a set of laws aimed at helping the bloc meet its clima...
Bangladesh court halts wild elephant adoption
Feb 25, 2024 (AFP)
Rights groups said the high court order suspending licences will stop the torture of captive Asian elephants in the name of training. "The high court today susp...
New Zealand opens first 'kiwi hospital' for injured birds
Feb 23, 2024 (AFP)
Rising numbers of the once-threatened national bird have led to the construction of a purpose-built facility in Kerikeri, a three-hour drive north of Auckland. ...
Colombian city of Cali to host UN biodiversity talks
Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)
Colombia was officially confirmed in December as the host of the COP16 biodiversity summit, after Turkey backed out. The talks will follow up on a landmark deal...
Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250 million years of evolution
Feb 22, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators at the University of Edinburgh analysed and compared over 200 high-quality chromosome-lev...
China plans to send more pandas to US zoo
Feb 22, 2024 (AFP)
Foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a regular press briefing that "Chinese institutions have already signed agreements with... the San Diego Zoo in the ...
Cambodia looks to import Indian tigers to revive big cat population
Feb 19, 2024 (AFP)
Cambodia's dry forests were once home to scores of Indochinese tigers but conservationists say intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey has devastated t...
Fluffy nuisance: Paris sends Invalides rabbits into exile
Feb 14, 2024 (AFP)
But efforts are underway to relocate the fluffy animals, accused of damaging the gardens and drains around the giant edifice that houses Napoleon's tomb, author...
Several UK seabird populations in decline due to bird flu: report
Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)
The report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and other conservationists found nine of 13 species had decreased in numbers by over 10 perce...
Second critically endangered gorilla born at London Zoo in a month
Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)
Western lowland gorillas, which inhabit dense and largely remote rainforests in west and central Africa, are classified as having a high risk of becoming extinc...
Back from the brink: the migratory species on the road to recovery
Feb 12, 2024 (AFP)
From the majestic humpback whale launching into the air from the waves, or the thousands of snub-nosed saiga antelope fanning across the steppes of Central Asia...
Poland's 'Bat-mum' saving bats from climate change
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
Barbara Gorecka, 69, runs a bat sanctuary in the residential building where she lives and says she has now taken care of around 1,600 animals. "It all started e...
Noxious fumes at night aren't a pollinating moth's delight
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
But a new paper published in Science on Thursday finds an atmospheric pollutant that is much more prevalent at night drastically reduces the fluttering creature...
Authorities kill 'dangerous' bear in Italian Alps
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
The two-and-a-half-year-old male, identified as "M90", was killed on Tuesday by Trentino forestry officials, according to a statement from the autonomous provin...
Mexico sees big fall in monarch butterfly numbers
Feb 07, 2024 (AFP)
The orange, black and white-spotted insects covered 0.90 hectares (2.2 acres) of forest in the 2023-2024 season, Gloria Tavera, conservation director at the Nat...
India's tigers climb high as climate, human pressure rises
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) said they were surprised to find "multiple pictures" of tigers in the mountains of Sikkim -- the Indian s...
Shark bites and deaths up even as species faces crisis: study
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
There were 69 unprovoked attacks in 2023, up slightly from 63 in 2022, and ten deaths, which is double the year before and a 12-year-high, according to the Inte...
Man arrested in France over theft of endangered monkeys
Feb 02, 2024 (AFP)
Unknown individuals broke into the tropical zoo in La Londe-les-Maures, around 70 kilometres (43 miles) east of Marseille, on the night of January 26-27, removi...
Jailbird: India releases pigeon accused of spying for China
Feb 02, 2024 (AFP)
The bird was caught at a port in the financial capital Mumbai with "messages written in a Chinese-like script" on its wings, the Times of India newspaper report...
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