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Darwinian theory of gradual process explained in new research
Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)
Published in Nature Communications, evolutionary biologists from the University of Reading propose a new statistical model which seeks to explain these sudden c...
100 new species in Myanmar reveal its 'biological riches'
Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)
Beginning in 2010 with the identification of the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey, a small black primate known as the "sneezing monkey", researchers have made an "incr...
12 big cats evacuated from Ukraine arrive in Poland
Mar 03, 2022 (AFP)
The Ukrainian truck, which covered nearly 1,000 kilometres (over 600 miles) from Kiev to bypass the central region of Zhytomir which has been shelled by Russian...
On the front line in Liberia's fight to save the pangolin
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
The small wiry man, whose full name AFP is withholding, ignores a ban on hunting bushmeat and earns most of his cash catching pangolins or monkeys in the surrou...
S.Africa announces hunt permits for rhino, leopards
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
It also gave permission for dozens of elephants to be killed, in keeping with international laws on the trade of endangered species, saying its elephant populat...
No bull: New Zealand bovine rides raging floodwaters
Feb 24, 2022 (AFP)
South Island farmer Tony Peacock said the 18-month-old bull was one of three washed away earlier this month when the West Coast region experienced its worst flo...
While some insects are declining, others might be thriving
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
The study, published in Biology Letters, was led by a team of researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin Luther...
Ticks survive for 27 years in entomologist's lab
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
Julian Shepherd, associate professor of biological sciences, discovered the longevity and reproduction abilities of the Argas brumpti after running out of a sui...
BirdLife Cyprus sees 'worrying' spike in migratory bird killings
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
"This sadly comes as no surprise, following a shameful relaxation of the Cyprus bird-protection law in December 2020," the group said in a statement. It has sys...
Mexican town toasts tequila fish saved from extinction
Feb 23, 2022 (AFP)
The fish, whose scientific name is Zoogoneticus Tequila, was rescued in the 1990s by US and British conservationists who kept it in aquariums and helped it retu...
Rescued condors spread wings in Chilean Andes
Feb 17, 2022 (AFP)
After 14 months of rehabilitation, the pair of scavengers were freed last week in the Patagonian National Park in Chile's extreme south, where every individual ...
'I'll kill you!': Mexico's nature defenders put lives on line
Feb 17, 2022 (AFP)
Despite the dangers of standing up to illegal loggers, fellow conservationists continue Gomez's work guarding the El Rosario monarch butterfly sanctuary in Mexi...
Australia warns koalas 'endangered' as numbers plunge
Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)
Conservationists said koala populations had crashed in much of eastern Australia over the past two decades, warning that they were now sliding towards extinctio...
US court reinstates gray wolf endangered species protections
Feb 11, 2022 (AFP)
A 26-page ruling issued Thursday by Judge Jeffrey White in a case brought by wildlife groups found the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) had erred in its October ...
Venezuela opens probe into table-top mountain 'party'
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
A group of revelers, including local celebrities, allegedly flew to Kusari Tepuy in the Canaima National Park by helicopter last Friday and threw a party, accor...
Uptick in rhino poaching as S.Africa eases virus curbs
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
A total of 451 animals were killed in 2021, which is still 24 percent lower than the pre-pandemic year 2019, the country's environment department reported. Of t...
End of the road in Colombia for Escobar's 'cocaine' hippos?
Feb 06, 2022 (AFP)
After the government added Escobar's so-called "cocaine" hippos Friday to a list of "introduced, invasive species," experts say killing them may be the only via...
Hippos and humans learning to live in peace in DR Congo
Feb 04, 2022 (AFP)
On the banks of the Ruzizi river that divides the Democratic Republic of Congo from Burundi, the villagers badly need to work it out after a spate of deaths -- ...
Texas butterfly sanctuary shuts citing threats from Trump supporters
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
The National Butterfly Center in Texas, located on the banks of the Rio Grande that separates the United States from Mexico, had filed a complaint to block cons...
Wildlife rebounds in divided Cyprus 'dead zone'
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
The mouflon, a majestic breed endemic to the Mediterranean island, is one of many species flourishing in the no-man's-land created when inter-communal strife sl...
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