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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...
Malaysia trapping tigers after three people killed
Dec 07, 2023 (AFP)
Eleven cage traps and 20 cameras have been installed in recent weeks in the forested area of Gua Musang district, in the northeastern state of Kelantan, where t...
Green turtles fight to survive against Pakistan's urban sprawl
Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)
Three immediately retreat to the water, put off by the glittering lights and heavy beat of a nearby beach party. But one trundles towards the end of the beach b...
Wellington welcomes first wild-born kiwi chicks in a century
Dec 05, 2023 (AFP)
The fluffy, flightless bird with a long distinctive beak is a beloved national symbol, but few New Zealanders have ever seen one in the wild. Kiwi are among the...
Hard to bear: UK's only pandas return to China
Dec 04, 2023 (AFP)
It was hoped that female Tian Tian ("Sweetie") and male Yang Guang ("Sunshine") would produce a cub during their stay at Edinburgh Zoo. But the bears, who even ...
Electrosensitivity in Dolphins: A Novel Sensory Ability Unveiled
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
Born with two rows of whiskers on their snouts, bottlenose dolphin calves lose these whiskers shortly after birth, leaving behind vibrissal pits. Initially beli...
Bacteria Store Memories and Pass Them on for Generations
Nov 30, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin found that E. coli bacteria use iron levels as a way to store information about different behaviors that can th...
Mission to rescue lions and hyenas in war-torn Sudan
Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)
On the southern outskirts of the capital Khartoum, volunteers had opened a modest reserve in 2021, crowdfunding online to rescue malnourished and sick lions fro...
Endangered Sumatran elephant born in Indonesia, second in weeks
Nov 28, 2023 (AFP)
Sumatran elephants are on the brink of extinction with only about 2,400-2,800 left in the world, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. Weighing about 78 ...
Critically endangered Sumatran rhino born in Indonesia
Nov 27, 2023 (AFP)
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimate the population of Sumatran rhinos to number less tha...
Rare elephant twins born in Kenya
Nov 24, 2023 (AFP)
Save the Elephants said that the twins, both female, were born in the Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya to a mother named Alto, describing it as "doubl...
Ay Karumba: 'Smelly' rats plague Australian fishing towns
Nov 23, 2023 (AFP)
The native long-haired rats have been steadily marching towards the coast after a bumper wet season in inland Australia, spreading hundreds of kilometres in the...
Vietnam jails ivory, rhino horn trafficker for 12 years
Nov 21, 2023 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation is a transport hub for illegal wildlife in Asia, as well as being a significant consumer. Ninh Ba Dien, 36, was hired by an anonymous...
Critically endangered Sumatran elephant born in Indonesia
Nov 13, 2023 (AFP)
Weighing about 108 kilograms (238 pounds), the yet-to-be-named male calf was born at the Way Kambas National Park in Lampung province in southern Sumatra, the M...
The mystery of phosphite - a scientific detective story
Nov 13, 2023 (SPX)
The scientist actually succeeded in isolating such a microorganism from the environment. Its energy metabolism is based on the oxidation of phosphite to phospha...
Elusive Attenborough echidna rediscovered in Indonesia
Nov 10, 2023 (AFP)
The Zaglossus attenboroughi, a kind of long-beaked echidna named for famed British naturalist David Attenborough, had last been seen in 1961. Echidnas are noctu...
EU strikes deal on key biodiversity bill
Nov 09, 2023 (AFP)
The law will force EU countries to put in place measures to restore at least 20 percent of the EU's land and 20 percent of the EU's seas by 2030, said a stateme...
Endangered Galapagos tortoises suffer from human waste: study
Nov 09, 2023 (AFP)
Turtles of the species Chelonoidis porteri ingest plastic in and around urban centers on the island of Santa Cruz, according to the study by the Charles Darwin ...
Diplomatic snub? Washington's pandas head home to China
Nov 08, 2023 (AFP)
Now in their mid-20s, pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian arrived at the Smithsonian National Zoo in 2000 and quickly became a much-loved star attraction. But the du...
Researchers reveal true crabs' epic ancient odyssey from sea to land and back again
Nov 07, 2023 (SPX)
In a new study in Systematic Biology, an international team of researchers, led by Joanna Wolfe, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Organismic and Evo...
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