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Conservationists call for more data to help protect pangolins
Aug 27, 2025 (AFP)
All eight known pangolin species remain at high risk of extinction due to over-exploitation and loss of habitat, conservationists warned Wednesday, warning know...
India to probe giant zoo run by son of Asia's richest person
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
India's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into allegations of illegal animal imports and financial misconduct at a vast private zoo set up by the son o...
HK scientist puts hope in nest boxes to save endangered cockatoos
Aug 19, 2025 (AFP)
Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, a fight to save one of the world's most endangered species is unfolding high in the bra...
Ancient farming reveals deep roots of the Anthropocene
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
The researchers showed how soil erosion evolved and why. They analyzed sediments spanning 5,000 years, targeting molecular markers of erosion and fire, and comp...
Despite risks, residents fight to protect Russian national park
Aug 14, 2025 (AFP)
After getting fined for her environmental protest against a road being built through a national park near Moscow, Irina Kuriseva is back to check on the constru...
150 species saved in England, but 'time running out' to halt decline
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
The public body, responsible for protecting and enhancing England's natural environment, invested a GBP 13 million ($17.6 million) grant in efforts to support a...
Lioness present in northeast C.Africa for first time in years; New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst
Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)
The camera trap evidence of the lioness is a "critical milestone in the recovery of lions" in the region, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said. "Until n...
Jumbo journey as Indian elephant set to return home
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
The story of the 36-year-old elephant called Madhuri reflects both the passion that some communities have for elephants in India -- and the mind-boggling scale ...
Spanish police seize illegal ivory carvings
Aug 04, 2025 (AFP)
Officers with the Guardia Civil confiscated 126 ivory carvings of various sizes, many featuring Asian-style designs, from a trading company in the eastern regio...
In Darwin's wake: Two-year global conservation voyage sparks hope
Jul 31, 2025 (AFP)
The majestic three-masted Oosterschelde, the last remaining vessel from a fleet of Dutch schooners that criss-crossed the globe in the early 20th century, arriv...
Experts condemn India park after elephants airlifted to Japan
Jul 29, 2025 (AFP)
The elephants -- three female and one male -- were put into specially designed crates and loaded onto a cargo plane last week bound for Osaka, a nearly 12-hour ...
World's smallest snake makes big comeback
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March by the Barbados Minist...
Australia's mammal megafauna face long-term decline from extinctions and invasive species
Jul 24, 2025 (SPX)
The research team focused on large-bodied animals over 10 kilograms, assessing extinction and introduction trends before and after European colonization in the ...
Sunbears to elephants: life at a Thai wildlife hospital
Jul 20, 2025 (AFP)
Yong, a pig-tailed macaque rescued from a life harvesting coconuts, was being treated at Thailand's only NGO-run wildlife hospital. He is one of dozens of anima...
Sri Lanka returns orphaned elephants to the jungle
Jul 17, 2025 (AFP)
Two females and four males, aged between five and seven, were released into the Mau Ara forest within the Udawalawe Wildlife Sanctuary, environment minister Dam...
G.Bissau's Bijagos archipelago added to UNESCO World Heritage list
Jul 13, 2025 (AFP)
The string of islands in Guinea-Bissau and surrounding turquoise waters are home to endangered green and leatherback sea turtles, manatees, dolphins and more th...
Mexican fishermen join fight to save extraordinary amphibian
Jul 10, 2025 (AFP)
The achoque, also known as the Lake Patzcuaro salamander, is a lesser known relative of the axolotl, the small friendly- faced amphibian battling extinction in ...
How plants forge microbial alliances to thrive under stress
Jul 08, 2025 (SPX)
The study, published in The ISME Journal, was co-authored by Regents' Professor Nancy Collins Johnson of NAU's School of Earth and Sustainability and Professor ...
'Frogging' takes off in Borneo's jungle
Jul 04, 2025 (AFP)
"There's another one! And it's massive," British tourist Lauren Heywood exclaimed as she spotted the telltale reflective glint off a pair of blinking eyes, seem...
'Demonised': Polish scientists warn of fear mongering about wolves
Jul 01, 2025 (AFP)
The professor has been monitoring a wolf pack in the region -- midway between Warsaw and Krakow -- for years. "Wolves have recolonised Polish forests," he decla...
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