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Nepal boosts anti-poaching patrols after jailbreaks
Nov 12, 2025 (AFP)
"This is a matter of concern for all conservationists," Bed Kumar Dhakal, deputy director general at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation,...
Cane toad invasion threatens Pilbara biodiversity and culture
Nov 11, 2025 (SPX)
The study, published in Scientific Reports, forecasts that, without intervention, cane toads could colonize up to 75 percent of the Pilbara within thirty years....
New 'Lucifer Bee' species discovered in Australia
Nov 11, 2025 (UPI)
The nicknamed "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered in 2019 in the Goldfields region of western Australia while scientists were in the middle of s...
India mega-zoo in spotlight again over animal acquisitions
Nov 09, 2025 (AFP)
The facility in western Gujarat state, officially known as the Green Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, is run by the son of Asia's richest man. It ha...
No picnic: How to survive a bear encounter; as Japan battles spike in attacks
Nov 08, 2025 (AFP)
The animals have killed a record 13 across the country since April, with a steady flow of reports of bears entering homes, roaming near schools and rampaging in...
Japan deploys troops after wave of deadly bear attacks
Nov 05, 2025 (AFP)
New Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government is scrambling to draft a special policy package to deal with the crisis, which has resulted in 12 deaths and more...
India seizes endangered primates found in checked bag
Oct 31, 2025 (AFP)
One of the tiny apes from Indonesia was dead, while the other, in a video shared by Indian Customs, was seen cradled in the arms of an officer, softly hooting b...
Malaria parasites are full of wildly spinning iron crystals. Scientists finally know why.
Oct 30, 2025 (SPX)
The iron crystals have long been an important target for antimalarial drugs, but their motion has mystified scientists since it was first detected. "People don'...
Ancient Mediterranean roots found for urban mosquito specialty
Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)
The research focused on the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens, recognized for two forms: pipiens, which thrives in open, seasonal environments and bites bi...
Nigerian NGO slams Turkish decision to keep rescued baby gorilla
Oct 25, 2025 (AFP)
The primate was five months old when he was discovered at Istanbul airport in a wooden crate just before Christmas en route from Nigeria to Thailand and taken i...
Tigers in trouble as Malaysian big cat numbers dwindle
Oct 23, 2025 (AFP)
Malaysia's national animal is in trouble. Poaching, food loss and diminishing habitat have slashed the population from 3,000 in the 1950s to less than 150 roami...
Artificial insemination raises hopes for world's rarest big cat
Oct 21, 2025 (AFP)
The spotted felines, native to the banks of the Siberian river of the same name on the Russian-Chinese border, are believed to number in just scores in the wild...
Fatal bear attacks hit new record in Japan
Oct 16, 2025 (AFP)
More and more wild bears have been spotted in Japan in recent years, even in residential areas, due to factors including a declining human population and climat...
A single species can trigger evolution in another, study shows
Oct 16, 2025 (SPX)
The scientists examined stickleback populations inhabiting lakes formed less than 12,000 years ago after glaciers retreated. While many lakes share similar envi...
Fatal bear attacks in Japan hit record number
Oct 16, 2025 (AFP)
Bears hungry because of shortages of food such as acorns -- which has been blamed on climate change -- are encroaching more into towns where the human populatio...
Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population
Oct 15, 2025 (AFP)
India is home to the majority of the world's remaining wild Asian elephants, a species listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Natur...
Survival of Europe's bees and butterflies at risk: IUCN
Oct 11, 2025 (AFP)
Almost all flowering plants in Europe depend on wild pollinators, particularly bees, but habitat loss and climate change were driving many vital species to the ...
Seals, birds under threat in new 'red list' of endangered species
Oct 10, 2025 (AFP)
It cited habitat loss driven by agricultural expansion and logging as a threat to birds, while seals were at risk mostly due to global warming and human activit...
Top conservation group meets in UAE on growing threats to nature
Oct 09, 2025 (AFP)
Hundreds of participants were meeting at the venue where the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), whose decisions help set the global agenda o...
Top nature group to unveil new 'red list' of threatened species
Oct 09, 2025 (AFP)
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), whose decisions help set the global agenda on environmental protection, will on Friday publish its li...
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