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Monkey business: Sri Lanka considers macaque sales to China
Apr 12, 2023 (AFP)
The toque macaque is endemic to Sri Lanka and common on the island but is classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red...
Poachers kill five elephants in Chad
Apr 11, 2023 (AFP)
The elephants were found slaughtered in the Beinamar area, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of the capital N'Djamena, Adam Ahmat Assane, secretary of SOS ...
Ranchers battle wolves in Colorado wilds as reintroduction looms
Apr 10, 2023 (AFP)
That is how he ended up shipping in a pack of feral donkeys to work as "guardian animals." "They kick, they strike and they bite!" Gittleson told AFP on a visit...
India's tiger population rises above 3,000
Apr 09, 2023 (AFP)
The largest of all cats, tigers once roamed throughout central, eastern and southern Asia. But in the past 100 years the tiger has lost more than 93 per cent of...
Bear kills jogger in Italy
Apr 07, 2023 (AFP)
Andrea Papi, 26, was killed out running Wednesday in the mountainous region near his village, Caldes, in the Trentino region, said the source. His family raised...
Buffaloes kill two in Botswana
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
The Ministry of Environment said wildlife authorities launched a hunt after a buffalo injured on Tuesday a 37-year-old in Kasane, a town on the Chobe river, whi...
Man charged after taking platypus on train ride, shopping trip
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
Police launched a public appeal after the 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel. The...
Ailing Pakistan elephant survives jumbo diagnosis
Apr 05, 2023 (AFP)
Noor Jehan has been barely able to walk around her enclosure at Karachi Zoo because of a huge growth between her back legs, sparking concern from keepers and vi...
Easy, tiger: study maps big cats' personalities
Apr 04, 2023 (AFP)
The behaviour of the 248 Siberian tigers observed through a personality test showed that the endangered cats had unique traits influencing both their success in...
Harnessing nature to promote planetary sustainability
Apr 02, 2023 (SPX)
Such technologies are the focus of the latest issue of the open access journal PLOS Biology, which features a special collection publishing March 31st of papers...
Global breakthrough: Plants emit sounds
Mar 31, 2023 (SPX)
The researchers: "We found that plants usually emit sounds when they are under stress, and that each plant and each type of stress is associated with a specific...
Earth prefers to serve life in XXS and XXL sizes: UBC research
Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)
"The smallest and largest organisms significantly outweigh all other organisms," said Dr. Tekwa, lead author of "The size of life," and now a research associate...
Removing Colombian druglord's hippos to cost $3.5 mn
Mar 30, 2023 (AFP)
The cocaine baron brought a small number of the African beasts to Colombia in the late 1980s. But after his death in 1993 the animals were left to roam freely i...
Danish Zoo hopes to ignite panda romance
Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)
The Danish capital's zoo decided to put the bears in the same enclosure a month earlier than usual so they can get acquainted while temperatures remain cooler, ...
Danish artist hatches epic global troll hunt
Mar 27, 2023 (AFP)
Thomas Dambo has created a complex treasure hunt to find "Moon Mother", his 100th troll sculpture, who he said has "crawled into the most secret spot in the for...
Biden protects two giant US wilderness areas
Mar 21, 2023 (AFP)
Biden said in a speech at the Department of the Interior that preserving the lands meant "protecting the heart and soul of our national pride, protecting pieces...
Vietnam seizes seven tonnes of ivory from Angola
Mar 20, 2023 (AFP)
Customs officials in the northern port city of Haiphong, 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Hanoi, found the ivory in a 20-foot container that had been declared to ...
Their time to slime: who will be 'Mollusc of the Year'?
Mar 17, 2023 (AFP)
Or will you be seduced by the leopard slug with its gymnastic mating ritual? The list of finalists for Mollusc of the Year has something for everyone. In a publ...
UK trophy hunting bill irks African conservationists
Mar 16, 2023 (AFP)
The law, which aims to help protect endangered animals and has the backing of celebrities including model Kate Moss and football presenter Gary Lineker, is to b...
'Revolutionary': Scientists create mice with two fathers
Mar 15, 2023 (AFP)
The technique pioneered in the proof-of-concept experiment is a long way from potentially being used in humans, with obstacles including a low success rate, ada...
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