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Chilean zoo jabs big cats, orangutan against Covid-19
Jan 04, 2022 (AFP)
Charly, Sandai and eight other animals at the Buin Zoo in Santiago were chosen for the experimental vaccine campaign as they belong to species considered at hig...
Runaway frenzied elephant herd breaks into Bangladesh park
Jan 02, 2022 (AFP)
The herd of at least 13 elephants knocked down a seven-foot (two-metre) concrete wall to break into the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, north of the resor...
Rare leopard captured in northern Iraq
Dec 31, 2021 (AFP)
The Persian leopard, taken in a day earlier in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region near the border with Turkey, had injured two people, said Colonel Jamal Saado,...
Hong Kong ban on ivory sales comes into force
Dec 31, 2021 (AFP)
Hong Kong lawmakers in 2018 backed a bill opting for a gradual phasing out of the trade -- a move some conservationists at the time criticised as a loophole tha...
India saw record 126 tiger deaths in 2021
Dec 30, 2021 (AFP)
The previous highest number of deaths per year before the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) began compiling data in 2012 was in 2016, when 121 perish...
India saw record 126 tiger deaths in 2021: data
Dec 30, 2021 (AFP)
The most recent death was recorded on Wednesday in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). The previ...
Hyenas maul two people near Kenya's capital Nairobi
Dec 28, 2021 (AFP)
The hyenas, numbering about 20, mauled a man on Monday in the village of Kamuthi near the industrial town of Thika as he was returning from his job at a quarry,...
Sea turtles return to Thailand's shores during pandemic
Dec 23, 2021 (AFP)
The turtle's nesting was spotted in November by scientists. In about two months, the 100 eggs will hatch and babies will slide towards the sea, guided by the mo...
Critically endangered tortoises released into wild in Bangladesh
Dec 20, 2021 (AFP)
Once abundant across the country's dense tropical forests, Asian Giant Tortoises had all but disappeared from the lush Chittagong hills. The area has been strip...
New copper surface eliminates bacteria in just two minutes
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The new copper product is the result of a collaborative research project with RMIT University and Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, with findings just...
US slaps visa restrictions on Congolese over wildlife trafficking
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
The central African nation is home to an abundance of wildlife, including pangolins, elephants, chimpanzees and gorillas, increasingly threatened by poaching an...
70 million years on earth, 40 years of decline: the endangered eel
Dec 14, 2021 (AFP)
How have eel populations changed? Eels appear in human mythology and ancient art, and their bones have been found in tombs dating back thousands of years. Just ...
Florida manatees will be fed to prevent starvation
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
The pilot program will start with Indian River Lagoon, on the Sunshine State's east coast southeast of Orlando, federal and state authorities announced Wednesda...
Study: Hydras regenerate heads by changing way their genes are regulated
Dec 08, 2021 (UPI)
The animals, which are known to have up to 50 heads do not appear to die due to age, or to age at all, use a process to replicate their heads called epigenetics...
Vietnam gives longest ever jail term for trading rhino horn: NGO
Dec 08, 2021 (AFP)
Vietnam is both a consumption hub and popular transit point for the multibillion-dollar trade in animal parts. Authorities have long vowed to stem the flow of i...
Nepal starts census of endangered Royal Bengal tigers
Dec 06, 2021 (AFP)
Deforestation, habitat encroachment and poaching have devastated tiger populations across Asia, but Nepal and 12 other countries signed a pledge in 2010 to doub...
Body of last Tasmanian tiger found in museum cupboard
Dec 05, 2021 (UPI)
The remains of the thylacine were kept inside a cupboard in a Tasmanian museum for years, before recently being properly identified. The last captive animal die...
Satellites reveal Ethiopian elephants under threat
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers from Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment and Born Free found, in the 11 years to 2017, the number of illegal houses in the sanctuary so...
Nearly 30 percent of UK birds endangered, report warns
Dec 01, 2021 (AFP)
The "red" list of 70 birds considered most endangered was put together by a coalition of organisations the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) base...
30 South African white rhino relocated to Rwanda in a Boeing 747
Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)
The majestic animals, which can weigh up to two tonnes, travelled some 3,400 kilometres (2,100 miles) from South Africa's Phinda Private Game Reserve as part of...
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