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Thai cop arrested with 20 elephant tusks
Feb 03, 2013 (AFP)
A Thai policeman has been arrested after he was caught trying to smuggle 20 elephant tusks, officials said Sunday. The haul was discovered when the suspect -- i...
Sweden resumes wolf hunt despite controversy
Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)
Sweden is to resume its wolf hunt in what authorities have described as a bid to limit inbreeding and maintain healthy stocks, but environmentalists argued Thur...
African vultures at risk from poisoning
Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)
African vultures fly long distances and prefer to feed outside of national parks, putting themselves at risk of poisoning from carrion in agricultural areas, a ...
Fourteenth rare Borneo pygmy elephant found dead
Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)
A fourteenth rare Borneo pygmy elephant has been found dead of suspected poisoning, Malaysian officials said Thursday, the latest in a series of fatalities that...
Malaysian is named head of UN biodiversity panel
Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)
A prominent Malaysian biologist on Saturday was named first chief of a UN scientific panel which aims to turn the world's spotlight on species loss, as a Nobel-...
Namibia offers model to tackle poaching scourge
Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)
Faced with poachers who are ravaging elephant and rhino populations, African nations could do worse than look to Namibia for a game plan to combat the scourge. ...
Extinction fears 'alarmist': study
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
Fears that most of the Earth's species will become extinct before they have even been discovered by science are "alarmist", according to an international study ...
S. Africa tries to capture thousands of runaway crocs
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
A massive operation to round up thousands of escaped crocodiles intensified in flood-soaked South Africa on Friday, as the authorities attempted to reassure the...
Treat illegal wildlife trade as serious crime: CITES
Jan 24, 2013 (AFP)
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, t...
Odd biochemistry yields lethal bacterial protein
Jan 24, 2013 (SPX)
While working out the structure of a cell-killing protein produced by some strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, researchers stumbled on a bit of unus...
Poachers kill 32 S.African rhinos this year
Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)
Poachers have slaughtered 32 South African rhinos in the first three weeks of 2013, marking a disturbing start to the year for a country battling crisis level k...
Monkeys stressed from longer foraging times
Jan 23, 2013 (SPX)
Endangered Mexican howler monkeys are consuming more leaves and less fruit as a result of habitat disturbance by humans, which is forcing them to invest much mo...
A diffusion trap
Jan 23, 2013 (SPX)
Over the past several years, Rong Li, Ph.D., at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research has been making crucial discoveries about the development of cell pol...
The new age of proteomics: An integrative vision of the cellular world
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
The enormous complexity of biological processes requires the use of high-performance technologies also known as 'omics', that are capable of carrying out comple...
They hunt, they kill, they cheat: Single-celled algae shed light on social lives of microbes
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
Humans do it, chimpanzees do it, cuckoos do it - cheating to score a free ride is a well-documented behavior by many animals, even plants. But microscopically s...
UMass Amherst Study May Explain Why Wolves are Forever Wild, But Dogs Can Be Tamed
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
Dogs and wolves are genetically so similar, it's been difficult for biologists to understand why wolves remain fiercely wild, while dogs can gladly become "man'...
Global warming may have severe consequences for rare Haleakala silverswords
Jan 17, 2013 (SPX)
While the iconic Haleakala silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climate-related ...
Salmon runs boom, go bust over centuries
Jan 17, 2013 (SPX)
Salmon runs are notoriously variable: strong one year, and weak the next. New research shows that the same may be true from one century to the next. Scientists ...
Escaped lion terrorises South African town
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
A lion that escaped from a private South African game reserve has been terrorising residents of the small northern town of Makhado for a week, police said on Th...
Wild yaks making comeback in Tibet
Jan 16, 2013 (UPI)
Yaks on the high Tibetan plateau, over-hunted almost to extinction, are making a comeback with a recent count finding nearly 1,000 of them, researchers say. A t...
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