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Cheetahs back in wild in India after seven decades
Mar 12, 2023 (AFP)
"Both cheetahs are doing good," India's Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav tweeted Saturday after the male and female darted from quarantine enclosures of Kun...
Belarus says Polish border fence threatens bison
Mar 10, 2023 (AFP)
The primeval Bialowieza Forest, which is located on the border between Poland and Belarus, is home to Europe's largest bison population. Last year Poland built ...
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen: Illuminating photosynthesis
Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)
Those early light-harvesting stages of photosynthesis involve repeated excitation of pigments, as photons are passed between them. To capture these highly dynam...
Caterpillars easy prey in artificial light: study
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
When researchers glued fake clay caterpillars to forest leaves and punched holes in the leaves to mimic their eating habits, the dummy green larvae experienced ...
Half of UK native plants in decline: major study
Mar 08, 2023 (AFP)
Change in land use, particularly "the intensification of arable cultivation," has been the main driver of change, according to the "Plant Atlas 2020" study unde...
Hatching leatherback turtles get helping hand on Thai beach
Mar 04, 2023 (AFP)
The Bangkok secondary school pupil is producing a short documentary about the snappers, under a programme run by the Environmental and Social Foundation, an NGO...
Tropical deforestation significantly reduces rainfall: study
Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)
The threat is most acute in the Congo Basin -- forecast to endure rapid deforestation in the coming years -- which could see rainfall reduced by up to ten perce...
Long lost Madagascar songbird seen again in wild
Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)
A expedition to remote regions of the island nation confirmed two recent sightings of the bird. Scientists also learned something about the petite bird's behavi...
Iran's rare cheetah cub dies of kidney failure
Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)
"Pirouz who was admitted to the Central Veterinary Hospital due to kidney failure last Thursday, died after undergoing dialysis," the official IRNA news agency ...
Cockfighting still a popular blood sport in southern Iraq
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
"This practice has been around since I was born in 1949," said referee Riad Ali, whose father introduced him to cockfighting when he was around 10. The popular ...
Iran fears for health of rare cheetah cub; Cockfighting still popular in southern Iraq
Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)
Named Pirouz, the cub was moved to hospital on Saturday and had become a source of national pride since its birth in May last year at a wildlife refuge in the c...
Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo
Feb 26, 2023 (AFP)
Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the same challenges that pushed these species to the cusp of extinction in the first place, including a...
From his farm to Alaska, Jimmy Carter leaves environmental legacy
Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)
They are located on a plot of land belonging to Carter that now produces green energy rather than the region's cash crops such as peanuts, cotton and corn. "He ...
Vietnam jails pangolin, rhino parts smuggler for 13 years
Feb 22, 2023 (AFP)
Environmentalists hailed Tuesday's verdict as a "rare success" in the fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Nguyen Duc Tai transported rhino horns, elephant...
Botswana loses a third of rhino to poaching in five years
Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)
In all 138 rhinos were slaughtered between 2018 and last year, Tourism minister Philda Kereng told parliament. This compares to two rhinos poached in the preced...
Japan bids farewell to four pandas returning to China
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
Visitors flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo to catch a last glimpse of Xiang Xiang, who has been a massive draw for the park since her birth in 2017, and to a park in ...
Rush to save trapped animals in Turkish city after tremor
Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)
Rescue workers have saved hundreds of trapped cats, dogs, rabbits and birds cherished by the people of the ancient city devastated by last week's 7.8-magnitude ...
For a best friend to Florida bees, each rescue is personal
Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)
Often called in by spooked or concerned residents, she acts as emergency responder for the vital pollinators, spending the substantial time it takes to move thr...
North American mountain vegetation is rapidly shifting higher as the climate warms
Feb 17, 2023 (SPX)
As climate change warms areas of the planet, species must shift their distribution north and to higher elevations in order to retain their historical temperatur...
Floral bloom turns Saudi desert purple
Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)
Muhammad al-Mutairi drove nearly six hours from his hometown in the centre of the kingdom to see the rare burst of colour in the drab landscape. "No one expects...
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