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Spotted: endangered leopard in Bangladesh
Jun 26, 2025 (AFP)
Bangladesh's Creative Conservation Alliance (CCA) issued pictures of the leopard emerging from lush green bush, celebrating the "evidence that these elusive big...
S.Africa's iconic protea flower relocates as climate warms
Jun 19, 2025 (AFP)
"They're all different," the 55-year-old farmer said of the assorted blooms from the diverse Proteaceae family that has more than 350 species in South Africa, f...
Tiny organisms, huge implications for people
Jun 16, 2025 (SPX)
After all, germ theory led to modern medical advances that have drastically limited deaths from infectious diseases. In the U.S. in 1900, the leading causes of ...
Scientists track egret's 38-hour flight from Australia to PNG
Jun 16, 2025 (AFP)
Australian researchers used GPS to follow eight plumed egrets and 10 great egrets over a period of months, after the birds left the Macquarie Marshes in New Sou...
Hiker dies in Greece bear encounter
Jun 10, 2025 (AFP)
The body of veteran hiker Christos Stavrianidis was found in the 800-metre (2,600-feet) deep ravine in Fraktou forest, the Ekav national emergency centre told A...
Monkey business delays Sri Lanka's wildlife survey
Jun 09, 2025 (AFP)
Deputy Environment Minister Anton Jayakodi said authorities had begun a review of the nationwide survey conducted on March 15, the first of its kind, because "s...
Kazakhstan to allow hunting once endangered antelopes
May 28, 2025 (AFP)
The country previously backtracked on lifting a hunting ban on the species, recognisable by their long, trunk-like rounded snout. President Kassym-Jomart Tokaye...
In tune with nature: expert sounds out all of Ireland's bird species
May 23, 2025 (AFP)
According to conservation bodies, some 63 percent of Ireland's birds are currently either red or amber-listed, meaning they are at severe or moderate extinction...
India's lion population rises by a third
May 21, 2025 (AFP)
The Asiatic lion -- which historically once roamed from the Middle East to India -- is now reduced to an isolated population in a wildlife sanctuary in India's ...
Asian elephants found to have significantly larger brains than African counterparts
May 21, 2025 (SPX)
Elephants are widely recognized for their intelligence and complex social behavior, yet the biology of their brains remains underexplored. In the new analysis, ...
Plants that abandon blooming may face extinction despite short-term gains
May 21, 2025 (SPX)
Darwin famously warned against perpetual self-fertilization, but Kobe University botanist SUETSUGU Kenji encountered a real-world challenge to that notion. On s...
Insect Predator Shows Remarkable Tool Use to Trap Prey
May 15, 2025 (SPX)
Researchers from China Agricultural University, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Institute of Zo...
Fresh Analysis Reveals Greater Impact of Agriculture on Insect Diversity
May 12, 2025 (SPX)
Now, a team from the Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg (JMU) has employed advanced analytical techniques to reveal that the impact of agricultural land us...
Viral Malaysia elephant death sparks calls for crossings
May 12, 2025 (AFP)
The truck collided with the elephant calf early on Sunday morning on a major highway in the north of the country. Images of the elephant mother trying to move t...
Elk could return to UK after 3,000 years as plan wins funding
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
European elk are woodland foragers and wetland grazers, helping to promote the natural regeneration of woodland and maintain open clearings. They went extinct i...
Wolf protection downgrade set for green light in EU
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
Members of the Bern Convention, tasked with the protection of wildlife in Europe as well as some African countries, agreed in December to lower the wolf's statu...
Endangered vultures killed in S.Africa poisoning; Japan arrests 3 with suitcases filled with hermit crabs
May 08, 2025 (AFP)
Another 84 vultures were evacuated by road and helicopter for treatment and monitoring after the poisoning in the Kruger National Park early this week, the park...
Kenya court fines teens for trying to smuggle protected ants
May 07, 2025 (AFP)
The case has received considerable attention after the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) accused the four of engaging in "bio-piracy". David Lornoy and Seppe Lodewi...
Pricing birdsong: EU mulls nature credits to help biodiversity
May 05, 2025 (AFP)
The European Commission last month launched a series of talks with financial, farming and green groups to ponder the idea, which has some environmentalists worr...
Biodiversity patterns change predictably with scale across ecosystems
May 01, 2025 (SPX)
Species diversity, known to increase with area, displays what ecologists term Species-Area Relationships (SARs). The new model identifies three SAR phases: a ra...
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