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Bangladesh major hub for tiger poaching; India's endangered tigers top 3,600
Jul 28, 2023 (AFP)
The vast Sundarbans mangrove forest straddling India and Bangladesh hosts one of the world's largest populations of Bengal tigers. Their pelts, bones and flesh ...
UK failing to meet global conservation promises: watchdog
Jul 26, 2023 (AFP)
So far, only 6.5 percent of the earmarked sites have been protected, with just seven years left to meet the promise of 30 percent. The government committed to t...
Fond farewell as first France-born panda heads to China
Jul 25, 2023 (AFP)
Yuan Meng, who was born in 2017 in the Beauval zoo in the Loire region of France, was cheered by visitors and zoo staff as he was driven under police escort to ...
Sri Lanka in shock treatment to reduce elephant deaths
Jul 19, 2023 (AFP)
Elephants are revered as a Buddhist symbol on the Indian Ocean island and carry caskets containing relics at temple pageants, but farmers are in constant confli...
Termites as cause of fairy circles in Namib Desert confirmed
Jul 19, 2023 (SPX)
As early as 2013, the Hamburg botanist Norbert Jurgens published, that purely subterranean sand termites of the genus Psammotermes cause the bare patches and, b...
Dingo cull rejected after attacks at Australian island
Jul 19, 2023 (AFP)
A 23-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after she was mauled by several dingoes while jogging on K'gari -- once known as Fraser Island -- on Monday. Queen...
How do microbes spread globally
Jul 19, 2023 (SPX)
The work combines microbiology and the dynamics of the Earth system and emphasizes the importance of the intertropical convergence zone in the phenomenon. In th...
Researchers become beaver believers after measuring the impacts of rewilding
Jul 18, 2023 (SPX)
Now a NASA-supported effort in Idaho adds remote sensing data to the suite of tools used to predict which streams can support beavers and to monitor how water a...
Rare Somali wild ass born in Chile zoo
Jul 18, 2023 (AFP)
The foal, named Julieta, was born in a private zoo on June 19, said Ignacio Idalsoaga, a veterinarian and founder of the zoo. With white, striped legs similar t...
Remote plant worlds
Jul 14, 2023 (SPX)
Now, an international research team led by the University of Gottingen has investigated the flora of the Canary Island of Tenerife. The results were surprising:...
EU parliament backs biodiversity bill in close vote
Jul 12, 2023 (AFP)
The text endorsing the Nature Restoration Law passed with 336 votes in favour, 300 against and 13 abstentions, setting the scene for the parliament to negotiate...
South Korea welcomes birth of first giant panda twins
Jul 12, 2023 (AFP)
The female twins were born at the Everland theme park near the capital Seoul on Friday, the zoo revealed in a video posted on its YouTube channel. The video, up...
Global study finds while humans sheltered in place, wildlife roamed
Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)
Dr. Mark Hebblewhite, professor of ungulate habitat ecology at the University of Montana, joined an international research team of 175, led by Dr. Marlee Tucker...
Key EU biodiversity bill may be scrapped as elections draw near
Jul 11, 2023 (AFP)
The main political grouping in the legislature, the conservative European People's Party (EPP), has rejected the draft Nature Restoration Law, saying it would h...
Clash at DR Congo wildlife reserve leaves ranger dead
Jun 29, 2023 (AFP)
The incident happened on Tuesday at the Okapi Wildlife Reserve (RFO) in the country's northeast. A 26-year-old guard died "following an attack carried out by ar...
African painted dogs spotted in Uganda after four decades
Jun 28, 2023 (AFP)
The canines are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of endangered species. "African painted dogs (commonly known as wild dogs)...
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka scraps monkey business plan
Jun 26, 2023 (AFP)
The toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island of 22 million people but is classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation...
Bee colonies 'relatively stable' after 2nd highest rate of loss last year
Jun 25, 2023 (UPI)
The preliminary results of a 2022-2023 National Colony Loss Survey by the Bee Informed Partnership found that beekeepers lost more than 48% of their colonies in...
Bison reintroduced to Canada's Banff thrive again
Jun 23, 2023 (AFP)
Appearing from a distance as specks against the backdrop of the Rocky Mountains, these animals are also restoring balance at the top of a fragile ecosystem. Nor...
As Arctic warms, caribou and muskoxen slow biodiversity loss
Jun 22, 2023 (AFP)
But a new study out Thursday in Science found the presence of caribou and muskoxen help to reduce the rate of loss by roughly half, suggesting the large herbivo...
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