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Cute but calamitous: Australia labours under rabbit numbers
Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)
Back in 1859, a mere 24 European breeding rabbits, scientific name Oryctolagus cuniculus, disembarked from England, brought over by Thomas Austin, who enjoyed h...
Outrage after rare brown bear shot dead in central Italy
Sep 01, 2023 (AFP)
Amarena was one of the most popular of the Marsican brown bears in the Abruzzo National Park in central Italy, often pictured in and around the area with her of...
EU police seize 25 tonnes of endangered eels headed for Asia
Aug 31, 2023 (AFP)
Officers arrested 256 suspected smugglers as part of the "historic" operation coordinated by the European Union's police agency Europol that involved 32 Europea...
Tears as Malaysia-born panda cubs head to China
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
Yi Yi and Sheng Yi -- born in 2018 and 2021 respectively -- were to be transported as part of an agreement between the two countries to send cubs born in captiv...
A global observatory to monitor Earth's biodiversity
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
"The lethal combination of habitat loss, the exploitation of natural populations, pollution, and climate change is causing species extinction rates not seen sin...
Rare albino puma cub born in Nicaragua zoo
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
"We are taking all measures to be able to keep him as healthy as possible, together with his mother," veterinarian Carlos Molina from the Thomas Belt Zoo told A...
At meeting in Canada, global fund launched to protect nature
Aug 24, 2023 (AFP)
At a gathering in Vancouver, Canada and Britain announced they would provide a combined $160 million in seed money to get the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund...
Cracking the code that relates brain and behavior in a simple animal
Aug 24, 2023 (SPX)
In an open-access report in the journal Cell, the team presents new brain-wide recordings and a mathematical model that accurately predicts the versatile ways t...
How a lone 'immigrant' wolf revived a forest ecosystem
Aug 23, 2023 (AFP)
His arrival revived the flagging fortunes of the wider wolf population, which had been hit by disease and inbreeding, and triggered cascading effects that impro...
Crying wolf to save livestock and their predator
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
If the predator were to get past the electric wires stretched around this high-altitude pasture in the Swiss Alps, the 57-year-old biologist knows "it would be ...
Baghdad zoo animals suffer as mercury hits 50 degrees
Aug 14, 2023 (AFP)
Temperatures on Monday breached 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in Baghdad for the second day in a row -- making life outdoors unbearable for both humans an...
Oldest extant plant has adapted to extremes and is threatened by climate change
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
The genus Takakia comprises only two species. Together, they are found only on the Tibetan Plateau, the "roof of the world", a hotspot of biodiversity. There, P...
Australia's defence department charged over crocodile attack
Aug 11, 2023 (AFP)
The two servicemen -- a private and a corporal -- were hospitalised after escaping from the jaws of the reptile, which attacked in August 2021 when they went fo...
DARPA seeks solutions to preserve bio-samples without cold storage
Aug 09, 2023 (SPX)
The Assured Microbial Preservation in Harsh Or Remote Areas (AMPHORA) program aims to dissociate sample preservation from cold chains, enabling storage and main...
Biden, in environment push, protects lands near Grand Canyon
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
The US president, kicking off a three-day tour of the American southwest, pumped his fist after signing into existence the country's newest national monument, w...
Otter attacks women floating down Montana river
Aug 04, 2023 (AFP)
The group of swimmers was drifting along Jefferson River in inflatable ring tubes on Wednesday evening when they spotted one or two of the animals. "An otter ap...
Two men arrested over wolf shooting in Hungary
Aug 04, 2023 (AFP)
The wolf -- outfitted with a tracking device -- reportedly migrated from Switzerland to Hungary, where he was shot by the minor in northeastern Hungary in early...
Running wild: stray dogs threaten rare Balkan lynx
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
But now, scientists have uncovered another potent enemy likely adding pressure on the endangered species -- wild dogs. Feral dogs have been a long but growing p...
Protecting wildlife and restoring natural ecosystems
Aug 01, 2023 (SPX)
To meet this challenge, in 2021, the Airbus Foundation joined forces with the Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF) to protect wildlife and preserve ecosystem...
Wildlife lovers urged to join UK's annual butterfly count
Jul 30, 2023 (AFP)
The UK-wide "Big Butterfly Count" -- which this year runs from July 14 to August 6 -- helps conservationists assess the health of the country's natural environm...
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