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Austrian regions allow controversial wolf hunting
Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says the orders to kill the wolves violate European law, which lists them as protected animals. In the southern province of Carint...
Russia bans World Wildlife Fund's work
Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)
Russia is escalating a crackdown to an unprecedented level more than one year into Moscow's large-scale assault on Ukraine, with independent media and rights gr...
EU countries green light disputed nature law
Jun 20, 2023 (AFP)
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, proposed the law last year that would force the 27 member states to put in place measures to restore at least 2...
Repentant ranchers rescuing Colombian wildlife
Jun 15, 2023 (AFP)
Just over a decade ago, the Zapatas decided to change their ways, and instead of cutting back trees for pasture, plant new ones. They sold their cows and let th...
Airport threatens Albania's fragile wild paradise
Jun 15, 2023 (AFP)
But this avian paradise's days may be numbered, ecologists warn, with a new airport being built close by to cash in on the Balkan nation's tourism boom. Its con...
S.Africa clinic hopes to save penguins' future
Jun 14, 2023 (AFP)
The sickly animal is among dozens undergoing treatment in the coastal town of Gqeberha, where a dedicated rehabilitation centre is on a mission to bring African...
In Cyprus no-man's land, owls come to the rescue of farmers
Jun 11, 2023 (AFP)
The rodents that once ran rampant in the decades since the no-man's land was created and destroyed his crops are being driven out by owls. "Our village was full...
White rhinos reintroduced to DR Congo national park
Jun 10, 2023 (AFP)
The last northern white rhino in the park, which lies in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeast, was poached in 2006. According to a joint statement from ...
Pirarucu: Amazon's giant air-breathing fish in poachers' sights
Jun 10, 2023 (AFP)
Prized for its skin as much as its flesh, the pirarucu has long been a staple for Indigenous people who hunt the air-breathing fish in lakes in the Javari Valle...
Seeing through eyes made of stone
Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)
The project reunites Li with a former collaborator, University of South Carolina Associate Professor Daniel Speiser. They also enlisted the expertise of an inte...
The university making quantum science more accessible
Jun 07, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Surrey are demonstrating these remarkable processes with visual, interactive and fun demonstrations to be displayed in the Disc...
Weather anomalies are keeping insects active longer
Jun 06, 2023 (SPX)
Scientists say museum specimens can help. In the first study of its kind, researchers at the University of Florida used natural history specimens to show that u...
How evolution impacts the environment
Jun 06, 2023 (SPX)
The peppered moths became a classic example of how environmental change drives species evolution. But in recent years, scientists have begun thinking about the ...
Divers fish deadly 'ghost nets' from Santorini's depths
Jun 05, 2023 (AFP)
"These abandoned nets are like fish traps," said diver Mika Panagiotopoulou, one of a group of volunteers who have been descending up to 45 metres to fish out d...
Chile says recent mass seabird death not due to avian flu
Jun 03, 2023 (AFP)
Some 3,500 Guanay cormorants -- once known as the "billion dollar bird" for their connection to the European fertilizer industry -- have been found dead since M...
Protecting India's tigers also good for climate: study
May 25, 2023 (AFP)
Three-quarters of the world's wild tigers live in India, but the destruction of their natural habitat have seen their numbers plummet. The number of tigers roam...
Weeds grow at London's Chelsea Flower Show
May 22, 2023 (AFP)
Around 145,000 visitors, including King Charles III and Queen Camilla, are expected to attend the five-day annual horticultural extravaganza starting on Tuesday...
'Mini kangaroos' hop back in South Australia
May 19, 2023 (AFP)
Bettongs, which leap with their hindlegs much like a full-sized kangaroo, populated over 60 percent of Australia before falling victim to cats, foxes and land-c...
S.African taxidermists fret at UK hunting trophy ban
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
His business in South Africa has thrived for years, but the 58-year-old says it is now threatened by a British law sponsored by animal activists. The bill, whic...
On Galapagos Islands, Darwin's flycatcher makes a tiny comeback
May 12, 2023 (AFP)
The only 15 remaining pairs of the charismatic birds on the island of Santa Cruz have produced 12 chicks this year, the park said. The species is endemic to the...
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