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India's elusive snow leopards snapped in key survey
Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)
The mammoth five-year survey, the first nationwide review of snow leopards in India, monitored 120,000 square kilometres (46,000 square miles) of their remote m...
Singapore jails South African for smuggling rhino horns
Jan 26, 2024 (AFP)
Gumede Sthembiso Joel was arrested at Singapore's Changi airport in 2022 after authorities found 20 rhino horns weighing 34.7 kilogram in his bags. Sniffer dogs...
How an invasive ant caused lions to change their diet
Jan 25, 2024 (AFP)
Research published Thursday has shown how an ant muscled into a Kenyan savannah and sparked such a dramatic transformation in the landscape that even the local ...
IVF breakthrough could revive nearly extinct rhino species
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
Only two female northern white rhinos remain in existence but neither is capable of carrying a pregnancy to term. To save the functionally extinct species, rese...
Hundreds of swans found dead in Kazakh nature reserve
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
The nature reserve is based around Lake Karakol, near the shores of the Caspian Sea, and is home to a variety of rare and endangered species. "Between 21 Decemb...
Australian police bust native reptile smuggling ring
Jan 08, 2024 (AFP)
Detectives began investigating the network in September last year, after intercepting nine packages bound for Hong Kong with 59 live lizards stashed inside. The...
Africa's large birds of prey facing 'extinction crisis': study
Jan 04, 2024 (AFP)
Previous research has shown that rapid human and agricultural expansion has had a particularly dire impact on vultures in Africa, due to habitat change and pois...
New reptile species, Calotes wangi, discovered in China
Dec 27, 2023 (UPI)
Wang's garden lizard, or Calotes wangi, was identified when researchers realized specimens collected during 2009-2022 field studies were this new species. "From...
Researchers find reindeer sleep while chewing their cud
Dec 22, 2023 (UPI)
New research found reindeer might be more rested in winter because their brains go into power-saving mode while chewing their cud. A study published Thursday by...
Dogs, antennas and honey for Japan's big bear problem
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
People moving from rural areas and Japan's ageing society -- plus climate change affecting bears' food and hibernation time -- are prompting ever more of the hu...
Peru seizes 4,000 live Amazon turtles at airport
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
The National Forestry and Wildlife Service said in a statement it has intercepted "a shipment of live turtles at the Jorge Chavez airport that were going to be ...
Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: elephants' desperate hunt for water
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
There is little that Simba Marozva and other rangers at the Hwange National Park can do except cut the tusks off the rotting corpses before poachers find them. ...
Elephants on the loose, S.African rangers on the chase; Peru seizes 4,000 live Amazon turtles at airport
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
A helicopter had located the about 10 tusked animals and was attempting to herd them back to the eastern wildlife park they broke out overnight, authorities sai...
Study uncovers major hidden human-driven bird extinctions
Dec 21, 2023 (SPX)
Many of the world's islands were previously untouched paradises, but the arrival of people to places like Hawaii, Tonga and the Azores led, over time, to far-re...
EU looks to downgrade wolf protection status
Dec 20, 2023 (AFP)
After bouncing back from near extinction, "the concentration of wolf packs in some European regions has become a real danger especially for livestock," commissi...
US-Mexico border wall threatening rare wildlife
Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)
Once the master of the Sonoran Desert, the animal is now struggling to survive in a landscape cut in two by a wall. The barrier, which former US president Donal...
A new force of nature is reshaping this planet
Dec 15, 2023 (SPX)
As a renowned scientist in the study of the Anthropocene, the current geological age marked by human influence, Ellis's research primarily focuses on the impact...
Colombia confirmed as host of next UN biodiversity talks
Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)
The COP16 biodiversity summit would follow up on a landmark deal at the last talks in 2022 in Montreal which promised to preserve 30 percent of the planet's lan...
Singapore bids farewell to China-bound panda cub
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
Le Le, the first panda to be born in the city-state, made his final public appearance at the River Wonders wildlife park before a month-long quarantine ahead of...
Colombia steps up to hold UN biodiversity talks
Dec 12, 2023 (AFP)
The COP16 biodiversity summit would follow up on a landmark deal at the last talks in 2022 in Montreal which promised to secure 30 percent of the planet as a pr...
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