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S.Africa opposes total ban on rhino horn exports
Feb 13, 2013 (AFP)
South Africa announced its opposition to a total ban on rhino trophy exports, saying it has beefed up hunt rules amid a poaching crisis that has killed 96 anima...
Understanding Microbes Blowing in the Wind
Feb 13, 2013 (SPX)
With help from a wind tunnel and the latest DNA technology, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are shedding light on the travel patterns of microb...
Autopsy carried out on giant Philippines crocodile
Feb 12, 2013 (AFP)
Philippine veterinarians conducted an autopsy Tuesday on the world's largest saltwater crocodile ever caught, amid concerns it died of mistreatment in a small p...
Evidence that at least one mammal can smell in stereo
Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)
Most mammals, including humans, see in stereo and hear in stereo. But whether they can also smell in stereo is the subject of a long-standing scientific controv...
Biodiversity exploration in the 3D era
Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)
Taxonomy - the discipline that defines and names groups of organisms - is a field of science that still employs many of the methods used during the beginnings o...
Australia's Cassius reclaims world's biggest croc crown
Feb 12, 2013 (AFP)
"Cassius" has reclaimed his crown as the world's biggest crocodile in captivity after his rival for the title died, with the huge reptile's handler in Australia...
Building owner acquitted for bird strikes
Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)
A Canadian court Monday held building owners responsible for protecting migrating birds, an environmental group says. Ecojustice said the court's ruling that th...
World's largest crocodile dies in Philippines
Feb 11, 2013 (AFP)
The world's largest saltwater crocodile in captivity has died in the Philippines, 17 months after the suspected man-eater was hunted down and put on display for...
Man's relationship with nature has gone wrong: Jane Goodall
Feb 10, 2013 (AFP)
Jane Goodall greets the audience by imitating a chimpanzee, then launches into an hour-long talk on her relationship with apes and how, from being a primatologi...
Vultures foraging far and wide face a poisonous future
Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)
A first ever study of the range and habits of white-backed vultures across southern Africa shows that they often shun national parks, preferring to forage furth...
France reshuffles the pack in bid to end wolf wrangle
Feb 07, 2013 (AFP)
Can you teach a wolf not to eat sheep? The idea is being floated in France, where the return of the wolf has got farmers and environmentalists at each other's t...
Study: Elephants know where they are safe
Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)
Wild African elephants prefer to live in safer, protected areas like national parks to avoid humans and become stressed when they leave them, researchers say. W...
Indonesian Komodo dragon attack leaves two hospitalised
Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)
A Komodo dragon in Indonesia has attacked two employees in one of the giant lizards' protected island habitats, leaving its victims hospitalised with serious in...
Malaysia considers reward in dead Borneo elephant case
Feb 06, 2013 (AFP)
Malaysian authorities will offer a $16,000 reward for information on 14 rare Borneo pygmy elephants found dead last month if it is confirmed they were poisoned,...
Sequencing hundreds of chloroplast genomes now possible
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Florida and Oberlin College have developed a sequencing method that will allow potentially hundreds of plant chloroplast genome...
This is what a fish thought looks like
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers have been able to see a thought "swim" through the brain of a living fish. The new technology is a useful tool for studies of pe...
Nepal launches census of Royal Bengal tiger
Feb 05, 2013 (AFP)
Hundreds of conservationists have begun a major survey of the number of endangered Royal Bengal tigers living in a vast forest region bordering Nepal and India,...
First artificial enzyme created by evolution in a test tube
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
There's a wobbly new biochemical structure in Burckhard Seelig's lab at the University of Minnesota that may resemble what enzymes looked like billions of years...
German gets jail time for Galapagos iguana smuggling
Feb 05, 2013 (AFP)
An Ecuadoran court has sentenced a German tourist to four years in prison for trying to smuggle threatened iguanas out of the Galapagos Islands. Dirk Bender "wi...
S.Africa convicts great white shark hunter
Feb 04, 2013 (AFP)
A South African court has convicted a man for killing a great white shark in the country's first-ever ruling on such a case, the agriculture and fisheries minis...
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