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World leaders won't attend key biodiversity talks next month: UN
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
Hopes are high that a new global biodiversity framework will be agreed at the talks, dubbed COP15, despite a long list of targets that have yet to be agreed. Th...
Australia's 'irreplaceable' platypus threatened by dams: study
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
The platypus is an oddity in many ways. As well as its duck-like bill and egg-laying, it is a rare venomous mammal, brandishing centimetre-long poisonous spurs ...
Kenya drought kills more than 200 elephants
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
The crisis has affected nearly half of Kenya's regions and at least four million out of its 50 million people. "The drought has caused mortality of wildlife, mo...
A better way to tell which species are vulnerable
Nov 03, 2022 (SPX)
Most such efforts assume that ecosystems are essentially in a state of equilibrium, and that external perturbations cause a temporary shift before things eventu...
Dream New Zealand job becomes a flight of fancy
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
The job, like the bird, hardly got off the ground when it was first advertised by New Zealand's Department of Conservation last month, attracting just three app...
Taiwan invites Chinese veterinary experts as beloved panda nears death
Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)
Relations between China and Taiwan have been on ice since 2016 with Beijing severing official communications and government visits between the two sides scrappe...
Europe's bees stung by climate, pesticides and parasites
Oct 24, 2022 (AFP)
But climate change, pesticides and parasites are taking a terrible toll on bees and they need protecting, according to European beekeepers, who held their annua...
Ugandan ivory trafficker gets life term in landmark ruling
Oct 22, 2022 (AFP)
International trade in ivory has been banned since 1989 under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Despi...
New nature preserves need huge boost in staff, resources: study
Oct 20, 2022 (AFP)
Governments around the world are locked in negotiations over how to keep animals and plants safe from human destruction, as scientists warn the world is potenti...
Methane-eating 'borgs' have been assimilating Earth's microbes
Oct 20, 2022 (SPX)
Last year, a team led by Jill Banfield discovered DNA structures within a methane-consuming microbe called Methanoperedens that appear to supercharge the organi...
The entire planet's ecosystems classified for the first time: study
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
The extensive collaboration includes the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which comprises about 1400 member organisations, including count...
Protecting wildlife along the US-Mexico border
Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)
Alarmed by the impact on animals including jaguars, bears and mountain lions, activists from the United States and Mexico have joined forces to try to protect t...
Wildlife populations plunge 69% since 1970: WWF
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
Featuring data from 32,000 populations of more than 5,000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, the WWF Living Planet Index shows accelerati...
What drives ecosystems to instability?
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
In studies of bacteria grown in the lab, the researchers were able to define three states of ecological communities, and calculated the conditions necessary for...
Singapore makes biggest seizure of rhino horn
Oct 05, 2022 (AFP)
The city-state's National Parks Board said 20 pieces of horn weighing a total of 34 kilograms (75 pounds) were discovered Tuesday in two bags at Singapore Chang...
Canada not protecting certain at-risk fish: audit
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
In a statement, commissioner Jerry DeMarco said Fisheries and Oceans Canada had shown "a bias against protecting species of commercial value under the Species A...
Australia lists small wallaby among new endangered species
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
Many of Australia's species are clinging to existence, their habitats shrinking from human activity and extreme events such as the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfi...
Nature's cleaners: Cyprus returns rare vultures to wild
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
Griffon vultures, birds that perform the vital job of clearing carcasses that could otherwise spread disease, are on the "brink of extinction" on the Mediterran...
'Extraordinary' elephant that survived poaching dies in drought-hit Kenya
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
"Monsoon" was euthanised by veterinarians after collapsing several times in poor health in Samburu, an arid expanse that like most of northern Kenya is sufferin...
Half world's birds in decline, species moving 'ever faster' to extinction
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
The four-yearly State of the World's Birds report, which provides a snapshot of the plight of species globally and more broadly a barometer for biodiversity, co...
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